Russia to cut red tape on free movement | Top Russian news and analysis online | ‘RIA Novosti’ newswire: “Russia may abandon its Soviet-era rigid registration rules, seen as a check on labor mobility and a source of human rights abuse, under a new bill drafted by the state migration agency, a leading business daily said on Tuesday.
The bill being developed by the Federal Migration Service would cancel the regulatory approval system, which stipulates that a person who would like to change his place of residence needs to ask authorities for permission, Vedomosti said. If the bill is approved, a notification system will be introduced, which means Russians will have to notify authorities of their moving afterwards.”