cross-posted from: https://scribe.disroot.org/post/10153535
Russia will require migrants to buy mobile phones so authorities can track their whereabouts, Deputy Interior Minister Igor Zubov said, according to the Russian business news outlet RBC:
Everyone’s interested in what the future holds, in where we’re headed. Every migrant who registers here on arrival — especially for work or for a long stay — will be required to buy a phone. That phone will hold their electronic profile. And we will know the location of every migrant.
As a result, Zubov said, migrants will be unable to move from one city to another “uncontrollably.”
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Since September 2025, Moscow has been running a pilot program that requires every foreign national who has come to work in the city to install an app called “Amina,” which shows their location. If it receives no geolocation data for three straight days, the person is dropped from the registration rolls.
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Key takeaway: Some people apparebtly migrate to Russia…?!
There are much worse places even as it stands and better countries are not too keen on accepting migrants from there. They also have a morality visa (i.e. if you are a homophobic racist piece of shit you are free to move in), that a whopping 700 people used to migrate out of EU/US/Canada in 3 years lol.
That’s what surprised me, as well.
