摘要：The migratory situation as it existed in Russia in the year 2007, when it is compared
with the preceding years, indicates that the crisis did not result in any serious alterations
in the already established migratory fl ows, which have been transformed only slightly; the
only really important change being a shift to the worse in the legal to illegal employment
ratio and in the use of labor. The nearly twofold reduction in the labor migrant quotas
established for employers that was effected by the RF Government in December 2008, in
conditions characterized by the existence of different employment niches for Russians and
migrants (based on different qualifi cation levels and by-sector distributions), gave rise to
a new upsurge in shadow migration. This phenomenon has also, to a certain extent, been
contributed to by the recent toughening of Russian labor legislation in the part of employee
dismissal regulation.
