Dmitry Ponomarenko, company lawyer at FBK Legal on the legal aspects of employment of the foreigners in Russia

 «The Moscow Times» published the article of Dmitry Ponomarenko, company lawyer at FBK Legal, dealing with the legal aspects of employment of the foreigners in Russia. The expert points out that legislative innovation aimed at encouraging the highly skilled staff to come to Russia was enacted in May, last year. Since then a remarkable stream was recorded of highly qualified experts coming to Russia, as in accordance with the data provided by the Federal Migration Service (already now the figures are double as against the previous year). ‘This newly enacted legislation specifies among the others definition of the highly-qualified expert. Thus shall be a foreign citizen having appropriate experience, skills and proven achievements in a specific field of action. Besides any foreign citizen participating in Skolkovo innovation project is deemed to be highly qualified”, - Ponomarenko says.