Lydia Grafova: This is something that can blow up the whole Russia
Lydia Grafova for the Ekho Moskvi, August 21, 2013
Lydia Grafova, journalist and Chair of the Executive Committee of Forum of Migrants’ Organizations [expressed her attitude to the attacks on migrant workers in the Moscow mayoral election campaign]: “This persecution that is observed in the life of migrant workers and mass media in general should concern everyone. This is something that can blow up the whole Russia. It is very alarming that migrants are the easiest preys. It is no coincidence that all the electoral programmes by all the candidates for the Mayor of Moscow treat the migration topic as a priority. But for one candidate – Sergei Mitrokhin – all believe that this is a curse. It has been proved on all levels, that our economy will stall unless it attracts new workers, because Russia’s able-bodies population has been shrinking by one million a year.
Posted: August 21st, 2013 under Human Rights, Moscow Mayoral Elections 2013.