12:00, 3 November 2009

Sverdlovsk Region has difficulties preparing to receive migrants from Ingushetia

Ingushetia. Photo by http://ingushetia.org

Officials from the Sverdlovsk Region, where resettlement is prepares, report that serious problems may arise with accommodation of Ingush migrants in the Urals Mountains, since practically nothing is ready.

A small village named Kryuk, located in the Shali District of the Sverdlovsk Region, was chosen as one of the settlements for accommodation of Ingushes; however, as local officials say, there are no places for accommodation there, as the "New Region" writes.

"We have a lot of homeless Russians; but they decided to bring still more Ingushes. I can't catch the idea. I understand when they bring Chinese or Vietnamese - they work as devils, and how Ingushes will work - I don't know," said Victor Butakov, deputy head of the Shali city administration for economic issues.

In their turn, political scientists fear that arrival of Ingushes can cause a wave of xenophobia. Thus, Valery Homyakov, Director of the Agency of Applied and Regional Policy, reminds that "the country already had on specialist in resettling nations - Joseph Stalin," the "Newsru.com" writes.