Five migrants who felled forests without patents will be expelled from the Russian Federation in the Khabarovsk Territory.

In the Khabarovsk Territory, the police and the regional Directorate of the FSB of the Russian Federation, during a migration control raid, identified five foreign citizens illegally engaged in cutting down trees. This was announced on Wednesday, April 30, by the Russian Interior Ministry.

"Police officers and the regional FSB of Russia <...> identified five foreign citizens aged 32 to 53 years old in peat fields near the village of Kapitonovka who were engaged in cutting trees without having the documents necessary for such work, namely patents," the agency's publication in Telegram says.

After that, it became known that all five migrants worked for an individual entrepreneur. The only documents they had were business visas issued in March 2025, the Interior Ministry said.

In relation to migrants, the police drew up protocols under Part 3 of Article 18.10 of the Administrative Code of the Russian Federation ("Illegal employment by a foreign citizen in Russia"). According to the court's conclusion, foreigners will be forcibly expelled from the country. In addition, they were sentenced to a fine of 5,000 to 7,000 rubles.

An entrepreneur who hired migrants without patents was also brought to administrative responsibility under Part 1 of Article 18.15 of the Administrative Code of the Russian Federation ("Illegal employment of a foreign citizen or stateless person in the Russian Federation").

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This will make it possible to establish the legality of foreigners' stay in Russia.

On April 24, Sergei Mironov, the head of the Fair Russia For Truth party, submitted to the State Duma a bill to raise the fine for illegal employment of migrants to 2 million rubles.

Earlier, on April 14, it was reported that in Russia they want to ban migrants included in the register of controlled persons of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia from registering as self-employed. According to the document that Izvestia has, we are talking about migrants who do not have legal grounds to stay in the country, therefore they should not have the right to apply a special tax regime "Tax on professional income."