Titov stood up for massively expelled Chinese from Russia

Boris Titov, Commissioner for the Protection of Entrepreneurs’ Rights under the President of the Russian Federation, sent a letter to the Minister of Internal Affairs Vladimir Kolokoltsev with a request to help lift the massive entry ban for Chinese citizens. In a letter (Vedomosti got acquainted with a copy), with reference to the data of the Chairman of the Union of Chinese Entrepreneurs in Russia, Zhou Liqun, the Commissioner reports that in 2021-2022. “several hundred” Chinese citizens were deported from the Russian Federation, brought to administrative responsibility under Art. 18.8 of the Code of Administrative Offenses for avoiding leaving the country after a certain period, the judges prohibit them from entering for five years.

The Ombudsman recalled that in April 2020, by decree of President Vladimir Putin on temporary measures to regulate the legal status of foreign citizens and stateless persons in the Russian Federation due to the threat of the spread of COVID-19, the calculation of the length of stay of foreigners in the country was suspended (after which it is required to leave for frontier). In June 2021, a new decree was issued, according to which the temporary measures were extended for 90 days from the date of lifting the restrictions on transport links with the respective state. That is, for Chinese citizens, the 90-day countdown should have started on May 20, 2022, when communication with the PRC was opened, and be valid until August 17, 2022, writes Titov.