The migrants who work in Russia contribute 20% to the growth of the country’s GDP. They bring about US$400 billion into the budget. Russia needs migrants in order to develop further and their number should rise yearly by 1 million, said former vice director of the Federal Migration Service Veaceslav Postavnin, who now heads the Moscow Social Projects Support Fund “Migration of the 21st century”, IPN reports, quoting the Central Asian News Service “CA-News”.

Veaceslav Postavnin said that if migrants from other states hadn’t worked in Russia, it’s not clear how the large constructions would have been erected, including the infrastructure of the Olympic facilities in Sochi. The oil infrastructure and the natural gas extraction and transporting infrastructure must be maintained. Road building and plant construction, the service sector and trade are also maintained by migrants’ labor force.

He also said that Russia loses annually 1 million able to work people and this problem will exist for a long time on in this country. By 2025, Russia will lose another 10 million able to work people. A country with such a territory needs migrants in order to resist.

According to the most recent study made by the Center for Sociological, Politological and Psychological Analysis and Investigations CIVIS, within the NEXUS Moldova Project, 206,000 Moldovans have stayed in Russia for more than 12 months, while about 88,000 Moldovans go regularly to this country to do seasonal work.