Russian President Vladimir Putin announced that the country will face a shortage of employees and skills in the coming years. He banned the filling of the looming shortage of workers in the labor market at the expense of low-skilled immigrants. "We need other approaches," said the Russian president.

According to the results of a public survey, after the tragedy in Crocus City Hall, 55-60 percent of Russians have a "clearly negative" opinion of migrant workers. Eight months ago, this figure was 40 percent.

Citizens of Uzbekistan and Tajikistan had a public fight at a construction site in Moscow due to improper distribution of construction materials. As a result, 10 Uzbek and 13 Tajik migrant workers were arrested. No one was injured in the incident.

It was decided to ban the employment of foreign citizens in a number of sectors in Crimea. These include transport, manufacturing, IT, sports and recreation. Earlier in Novosibirsk, Samara and Yakutia, a number of industries were "closed" for migrant workers.

24-hour "call-centers" for citizens abroad in embassies, partial reimbursement of expenses for work visa, travel ticket, foreign language and professional qualification assessment, financial assistance for citizens returning from foreign migration and other proposals - proposals to the President of Uzbekistan aimed at supporting labor migrants presentation was made.

The Russian Ministry of Labor and Social Protection of the Population proposes to create a public legal company for targeted, organized recruitment of foreign workers and to improve its mechanism in favor of Russian employers.

It is said that the delegation of Israel, which went to Uzbekistan to hire workers in the construction industry, encountered various bureaucratic obstacles and returned empty-handed. Israel also failed in India and Sri Lanka.