Charles Bridge on the Vlatava River in Prague. File photoPRAGUE, Mar 20Starting next week, refugees who arrived from Ukraine and received visas to stay in the Czech Republic can work in the republic without special work permits, which are usually issued to foreigners from non-EU countries, Czech TV reported. can work in the Czech Republic without special work permits On March 9, the Cabinet of Ministers of the Republic adopted it, and at the end of last week it was approved by both houses of parliament and signed by President Milos Zeman.Now the law, called Lex Ukrajina, will come into force immediately after it is published in Collection of laws, which is expected in the coming days, «according to this law, Ukrainian refugees receive the right to work, social and medical security, as well as education, including retraining courses and Czech language courses. They can look for work in their specialty both independently and through labor exchanges. Currently, the labor exchange offers 342 thousand vacancies, of which 13.3 thousand are for people with higher education and 23.6 thousand for people with secondary education, in including 8.8 thousand places in the healthcare system and 2.2 thousand in the education system.More than 3.2 million people have left Ukraine, the UNC said this week, those Ukrainian refugees who have already received visas to stay in the Czech Republic can also receive humanitarian assistance in the amount of 5,000 kroons (about $220) per month per person. According to local media, during the Russian special operation in Ukraine, about 300 thousand refugees from this country have already arrived in the Czech Republic, about 200 thousand of them received visas to stay in the republic. About half of all refugees, as Interior Minister Vit Rakusan said last week, are children, and 80% of adults are women. Russia launched a military operation in Ukraine on February 24. President Vladimir Putin called its goal «the protection of people who have been subjected to bullying and genocide by the Kiev regime for eight years.» For this, according to him, it is planned to carry out «demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine», to bring to justice all war criminals responsible for «bloody crimes against civilians» in Donbass. According to the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, the Armed Forces strike only at the military infrastructure and Ukrainian troops. With the support of the Russian Armed Forces, the DPR and LPR groups are developing an offensive, but there is no talk of the occupation of Ukraine, the President of Russia emphasized. 17InfographicRefugees from Ukraine: where forced migrants are sentInfographicView
