Those Crimeans who renounced the Russian citizenship face with different kinds of discrimination including the employment sphere. In particular, they are refused to be hired or they are fired. The Crimean Field Mission on Human Rights informs about that on its page in Facebook.
“People who wrote an application regarding retaining the Ukrainian citizenship were permitted to acquire a residence permit of the Russian Federation but they are considered to be foreigners. This is why in order to be employed they need to receive a patent or a labor permit. It is a long, complicated and expensive bureaucratic procedure,” – the human rights activists say.
According to their information, the ones who didn’t write an application on renunciation but didn’t receive a Russian passport found themselves in a more complicated situation. “As they don’t have a Russian passport, they can not be hired without the patent. However, they can not receive the patent as the authorities “automatically” consider them as citizens of the Russian Federation. As a result, people can not enter a new job nor continue to work at the old one,” lawyers of the Crimean Field Mission conclude.
At the same time, the Crimean “authorities” constantly carry out inspections to identify employees without passports of the Russian Federation and impose fines worth millions on employers. In particular, “the Migration Service imposed a fine in the amount of 4.8 million rubles on the hotel “Bristol” in Yalta, because 12 Ukrainian employees were not registered as foreigners in the FMS by the manager of the hotel.” According to the report of the Crimean Field Mission, fines aren’t proportioned to the profit of the business, this is why entrepreneurs refuse to hire Crimeans without a passport of the Russian Federation or fire them.
You can find more information about situations of Crimeans, who renounced the Russian citizenship, in a series of articles “I renounced the Russian citizenship”.