Russia ranks third by the number of migrants in the world

The situation is quite difficult.

20.Apr.16 7:50 AM
By Abigail Richards
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Russia ranks third by the number of migrants in the world. So, according to the report of the International organization for migration, today in the Russian Federation is home to nearly twelve million migrants, and in this regard our country the number of migrants takes a confident third place in the world. First place are still the United States of America and Germany.

According to the experts from the IOM, last year the total number of international migrants in the world was the largest for all history of their hold – almost 250 million people. It is also noted that the highest proportion of migrants among the total population, there are in the Gulf countries – UAE, Qatar and Kuwait.

The report also States that in 2015 the first place by the number of requests for asylum occupied Germany, which received almost five hundred thousand conversions, and it very much. If to speak in General about all the countries of the European Union in 2015 there were more than 1.2 million such requests, which more than doubled the data 2014.

It is worth Recalling that just yesterday, April 19, the Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev has declared that in Russia should be considerably strengthened laws that penalize illegal immigration.

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