Federal Migration Services Assigns �Locals� on the Capture of Illegal Migrants Sept 15 2007. In a Moscow construction market on the Yaroslavl highway (where guest workers are hired for work) an action by the Federal Migration Services (FMS) took place. Participating in the action were youth from the pro-Kremlin young people�s movement �Mestnye� (�Locals�). Approximately twenty cars with activists from the movement for ride control arrived at the market and hired somewhere in the order of 80 people. After this, cars drove to a blind alley behind the market where migrants were stopped by representatives from FMS. Hardly anyone possessed the official permission to work, and seventy two people were detained. �Mestnye� passed out leaflets with an image of an airplane and the words �Time to fly south!� printed on them. Sergey Fateyev, the leader of �Mestnye,� added that �they will repeat similar actions�. In the process of the activity they stated that another number of measures conducted jointly with FMS are prepared. It should be remembered that �Locals� already repeatedly carried out anti-migrant actions. September 17, 2007 FMS director Konstantin Romodanovskiy thanked the �Locals� movement for its help and stated that the FMS will draw �Locals� to its work �as public helpers�. �Of course, the people in �Locals� are complex, sometimes with a war-like disposition. If it is reasonable to make use of them, then they have sense� commented K. Romodanovskiy. �If one compares the �Mestnye� movement with nationalists from the Movement against Illegal Immigration (DPNI), then I would give priority to �Mestnye�. They are more reasonable people� added the head of FMS. Rights defenders called the action of FMS and �Mestnye� provocation. �Catching illegals is the work of the FMS. People who participated in the hunt for guest workers, in general, had no right to be involved. I consider that our officials, after doing such, demonstrated the incredibly low level of their legal conscience�, stated Svetlana Gannushkina, the head of the organization �For Civil Assistance� Source: Source �SOVA� Center
Federal Migration Services Assigns �Locals� on the Capture of Illegal Migrants
Approximately twenty cars with activists from the movement for ride control arrived at the market and hired somewhere in the order of 80 people. After this, cars drove to a blind alley behind the market where migrants were stopped by representatives from FMS. Hardly anyone possessed the official permission to work, and seventy two people were detained. �Mestnye� passed out leaflets with an image of an airplane and the words �Time to fly south!� printed on them.
Sergey Fateyev, the leader of �Mestnye,� added that �they will repeat similar actions�. In the process of the activity they stated that another number of measures conducted jointly with FMS are prepared. It should be remembered that �Locals� already repeatedly carried out anti-migrant actions.
September 17, 2007 FMS director Konstantin Romodanovskiy thanked the �Locals� movement for its help and stated that the FMS will draw �Locals� to its work �as public helpers�. �Of course, the people in �Locals� are complex, sometimes with a war-like disposition. If it is reasonable to make use of them, then they have sense� commented K. Romodanovskiy.
�If one compares the �Mestnye� movement with nationalists from the Movement against Illegal Immigration (DPNI), then I would give priority to �Mestnye�. They are more reasonable people� added the head of FMS.
Rights defenders called the action of FMS and �Mestnye� provocation. �Catching illegals is the work of the FMS. People who participated in the hunt for guest workers, in general, had no right to be involved. I consider that our officials, after doing such, demonstrated the incredibly low level of their legal conscience�, stated Svetlana Gannushkina, the head of the organization �For Civil Assistance�
Source: Source �SOVA� Center
