Migrants from ex-Soviet states and the Third World are continuing to enter Russia. Since 1994, about 2.5 million people have moved to Russia from the former Soviet states, according to the Russian Federal Migration Service. Russia's Center for Economic Affairs estimates that by the year 2000, there will be a net migration of 2.8 million people from the former Soviet republics into Russia.  Most of the migrants are Russians from Tajikistan, Azerbaijan and Uzbekistan, but the influx from Kazakhstan is increasing. Within Russia, the conflict in the Caucasus has produced some 300,000 internal refugees, and a further 320,000 have fled the war in Chechnya. Many of the migrants from the Third World in Russia are in transit to the West. The FMS estimates the number of such migrants at 500,000, mostly from Afghanistan, Iraq, Somalia, Sri Lanka, Ethiopia, Iran, Sudan, Angola, Pakistan and Nigeria, and mostly awaiting a turn to go west in Moscow."Operation Foreigner," a Russian program to rid the country of illegal Chinese immigrants, has been in effect for over one year and, according to Russian officials, has been successful. Operation Foreigner includes more border guards at the Chinese frontier, and closer scrutiny of documents. In some border towns, Chinese workers have both Russian and Chinese documents, and the influx of Chinese is blamed in part on lax tourist controls. To enter Russia, a Chinese citizen needs only a certificate or special passport.The murder of a Russian border guard on April 12 resulted in a demand by Cossack border troops to root out and deport Chinese citizens living there illegally.

 I want to comment on Chinese part.I think it is normal because in the chine people who live on border of Russia are poor people. Because This part of Chine has not improved. Thus, they try to go to Russia to make living for themselves