Deputies have introduced a bill to the State Duma that proposes to create a “regime of expulsion” of foreigners from Russia. The document was published on the website of the lower house of parliament.
Information about foreigners subject to the “expulsion regime” will be entered into a special “register of controlled persons.” Foreigners will get there the next day after the expiration of their temporary residence permit. In addition, data will be entered immediately after the cancellation of a visa, refusal of refugee recognition, revocation of citizenship, a decision on administrative expulsion, as well as in the event of a sentence in a criminal case coming into force.
From the moment they are included in the register, foreigners will not be able to get married, buy real estate and cars, create legal entities, drive a car, or open bank accounts. They will be able to spend no more than 30 thousand rubles per month from their open Russian accounts.
If a foreigner violates the requirements of the “deportation regime” two or more times, he will be deported.
The bill also specifies the conditions under which foreigners will be excluded from the register. This means leaving the territory of Russia, settling the legal situation, or death.
The deputies also stipulated in the bill that “to maintain the right to enter” Russia, foreigners must: treat the environment with care, respect the diversity of regional and ethnocultural structures of Russia, not interfere in the foreign and domestic policies of the state, and not interfere with the realization of the rights and freedoms of citizens of the Russian Federation. Federation, as well as the authorities.
In addition, the document says, foreigners must “respect traditional Russian spiritual and moral values, including ideas about marriage as a union of a man and a woman, family, motherhood, paternity, childhood, comply with the requirements of the inadmissibility of propaganda of non-traditional sexual relations and distortion of the historical truth about the feat of the Soviet people in defending the Fatherland and its contribution to the victory over fascism.”
The co-author of the bill, United Russia deputy Dmitry Vyatkin, clarified to Interfax that foreigners will have to give a written undertaking. If it is violated, the authorities will be able to apply the “expulsion regime”.