This year, the State Program for Voluntary Resettlement of… (соотечественник · россия · переселение)

This year, the State Program for Voluntary Resettlement of Compatriots Living Abroad in Russia will mark its 20th anniversary. In the past two decades, more than 1.2 million compatriots living abroad have moved to the Russian Federation under this resettlement program.

Consensus

• The Russian government's program for voluntary resettlement of compatriots living abroad has been running for 20 years
• Over one million people have migrated to Russia under this program
• The number of migrants is comparable to the population of Vladimirskaya and Penzenskaya regions
• The largest number of migrants settled in Tula, Kaluga, Chelyabinsk, Voronezh, and Novosibirsk regions

Points of divergence

• The number of migrants is comparable to the population of Vladimirskaya or Penzenskaya regions — vesti
• The number of migrants is comparable to the population of Vladimirskaya and Penzenskaya regions — interfax
• The program was launched in 2006 — vesti
• The program was launched in 2006 — interfax