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of at least 2 million rubles a year. However, the government reserves the right to lower this threshold if necessary.Analysts believe this bill is meant to pave the way for hiring foreign staff for the Skolkovo science town project.
The bill will also regulate the status of immigrants from the CIS countries who do not qualify as important research staff but are skillful in helping Russians run their households. There are three million such staff in Russia. Until now, their activities were not regulated or accounted for in Russia. The new law will require that all foreigners arriving to seek jobs in Russia buy a 1,000 ruble work patent. Although quite expensive for job-seekers, the patent will provide them with a legal status and spare them problems with Russian police.
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Government officials to twitter
Russian authorities will soon begin distributing their information through Twitter, a popular social networking and microblogging
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