Authorities Hope Chinese Investment Will Bring Russians Back to Far East

Author(s): Oleg Ssylka
Editor(s): Matthias Neumann, Robert Orttung, Jeronim Perovic, Heiko Pleines, Hans-Henning Schröder
Series: Russian Analytical Digest (RAD)
Issue: 7
Pages: 13-15
Publisher(s): Center for Security Studies (CSS), ETH Zurich; Research Centre for East European Studies, University of Bremen
Publication Year: 2006

The Russian population in the Far East is continuing to shrink. While the local population often feels like they are being invaded by Chinese migrants, these perceptions have little basis in reality. During the last few years, the Russian Federal Security Service has cracked down on illegal immigrants and there are fewer border violations now than in the early 1990s. Instead, the Russian authorities are actively working to promote Chinese investment in the area. Additionally, the authorities hope to bring ethnic Russian migrants to the Far East from the former Soviet republics, but these programs have made little progress due to a lack of financing.

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