The IOM Moscow Times International Organization for Migration Moscow, Russia

Issue 5, January 2006 12, 2-aya Zvenigorodskaya, 123100, Moscow Tel 7 (095) 797-87-22 Fax 7 (095) 253-35-22 [email protected], www.iom.int

INSIDE THE ISSUE: Prevention component, involving measures ranging from awareness-raising among the risk groups to strengthening the capacities of the law enforcement bodies; and a Reintegration component, seeking to assist the victims in their rehabilitation and • IOM Moscow to Launch Counter Trafficking reintegration. Under the Project, IOM will establish in Moscow a Project in Russia Rehabilitation Center for victims of trafficking, the first facility in the • The Experience of Adopting the EMM for the city to provide diversified and professional assistance to victims from EECA Region. Training Course in Russia Russia as well as CIS. • EMM Training in the FMS Center in Bolshevo The Project was prepared by IOM Moscow under the guidance of the • Trafficking Assessment and Counter- EC Delegation and in close consultation with the relevant governmental partners and practitioners, including the Inter-Agency Trafficking Capacity Building Project Working Group of the Legislative Committee of the State Duma, (Kaliningrad, Russia) Ministry of Interior, Ministry of Health and Social Development, and • IOM Moscow Participation at the International others. ”Disaster Psychiatry Conference” The total funding for the Project is Euro 4,444,444. While funding • IOM Moscow Migration Research Programme support is still being sought from other interested donors, the key (MMRP) contribution has already been committed by the European • Poland Voluntary Assisted Return and Commission. Reintegration of Unsuccessful Asylum Seekers Programme THE EXPERIENCE OF ADOPTING THE EMM FOR THE • Moscow Migrant Processing and Movement EECA REGION. TRAINING COURSE IN RUSSIA On October 11, 2005 IOM Director General Mr. Brunson McKinley • IOM Medical Unit Informs met Director of the Federal Migration Service of the Russian • Tamiflu Procurement as a Part of IOM Russian Federation Mr.Konstantin Romodanovskiy, at IOM HQ in Geneva. Federation Contingency Plan for an Influenza One of the issues discussed was a unique resource and training tool Pandemic Essentials for Migration Management (EMM) that was developed • IOM Moscow and Krasnodar Offices by IOM.

IOM MOSCOW TO LAUNCH COUNTER TRAFFICKING PROJECT IN RUSSIA

On December 26, 2005 IOM Moscow signed an Agreement with the Delegation of the European Commission to Russia, which contracted IOM Moscow to implement a Project titled Prevention of Human Trafficking in Russia. The Project, which is scheduled to begin as of March 1, 2006, will continue for 30 months and will involve three groups of interventions to address the main gaps in combating trafficking from, into and through the Russian Federation. Specifically, these groups include a Policy Advice component, aiming to improve the legislative Essentials for Migration Management (EMM) framework and national policies regarding human trafficking; a

The IOM Moscow Times, Issue 5 1 The DG highlighted that EMM manual was the result of contributions ‘Migration Management in the EECA: Translation, Dissemination and from a large number of the migration experts from all parts of the Training of the EMM toolkit. The translation into Russian of all three world and introduced the EMM Manual to the Russian delegation as volumes of the training materials was organized and completed by a new learning tool, written in a non-technical manner, which the start of the training sessions (19-23 December). The training provides an interactive framework of reference and instruction on course for 25 selected migration officials was conducted and the contemporary migration dynamics, policies and terms. Designed as a essentials in migration management were distributed among the curriculum and based on 32 individual training modules, the EMM participants. The training of trainers was also organized for 5 Russian aims to provide a toolkit for policy makers and practitioners who face trainers from the MoI’s educational intuitions. Upon the completion of the challenge of improving the capacity of their country to manage the training courses the participants praised the practical aspect of migration. The EMM reviews the current concepts and approaches to this training as well as the structure of the training that was organized these issues within the global community. Designed to help the user in such a way that the migration officials were kept involved all the to apply these concepts to their particular context, it is also guides time with lots of visual devices. users in identifying which of the various policy options or operational practices are appropriate to the needs and capacity of each country. Practical learning was emphasized as a very good tool for understanding the material in a faster and more efficient way. Mrs.Alexandra Zemskova, Head of the Immigration Control The DG presented the structure of the EMM Manual: complete Department expressed the thanks of the FMS leadership for course begins with foundations in Volume One, develops policy ideas organizing learning workshops and gratitude of Mr.Romodanovskiy to using this foundation in Volume Two and studies management IOM for cooperation in this area. She also noted that given the need practices and options at a more operational level in Volume Three. In it would be useful to conduct a similar event covering Eastern part of this respect the DG commented that EMM is a perfect tool to use to Russia. A concrete suggestion was expressed to have more strengthen and complement the work that IOM and others have done connection to the Russian reality and need to operate with up-to-date globally and put forward a proposal to adopt the EMM Manual for the information. EECA area and particularly for the needs and realities of Russia. Mr.Romodanovskiy expressed his interest and said that he would like to get acquainted with the essentials in migration management, particularly with the training materials related to international migration law, development of migration legislation, international cooperation, migration and security, passport and visa systems, immigration systems, migration and citizenship. The idea to organize the first training in EMM in Russia was discussed and welcomed by Mr.Romodanovskiy. He invited the IOM experts (IOM HQ, TCC Vienna and IOM Moscow) to organize training courses for FMS officials as well as a training of trainers’ course in Moscow. The migration officials agreed that the Course Manual could also help the experienced practitioners and policymakers to further develop their approaches and to consider other “models” in cases where the existing policies are found to be no longer effective. Opening of the EMM Training in Bolshevo The possibility and the format of the EMM training was also discussed during the meeting of IOM Moscow Chief of mission Mark The official publication/printing of the EMM training module will be Getchell with Mr. Konstantin Romodanovskiy. Mr.Romodanovskiy completed and distributed this March, 2006. said that the need for migration management training was very great in Russia, not least in training new people and instilling a non- military, non-traditional-Ministry-of-Interior mind-set and providing a EMM TRAINING IN THE FMS CENTER IN BOLSHEVO deeper understanding of human rights issues and legislation. On 19-23 December 2005 IOM Moscow in close cooperation with TCC Vienna and IOM Head Quarters has conducted training for The migration officials agreed to organize the first round of the EMM Russian migration officials. The training was prepared and introduced training sessions for high- and mid-level federal and regional on the basis of the IOM recently developed curriculum on the migration officials, representing the central office and some regions Essentials of Migration Management, a Guide for Policy Makers and of RF (Murmank, Petrozavodsk, St.Petersburg, Astrakhan, Kaluga, Practitioners (EMM). The EMM Manual is a new learning tool, written Smolensk, Tver, Moscow and Moscow oblast) to be held in in a non-technical manner, which provides an interactive framework December2005 in Russia (Moscow). of reference and instruction on contemporary migration dynamics, policies and terms.

The TCC Vienna jointly with IOM Moscow during the months of November and December and January implemented the project

The IOM Moscow Times, Issue 5 2 expand such activities especially to cover more distant regions of the RF. TRAFFICKING ASSESSMENT AND COUNTER- TRAFFICKING CAPACITY BUILDING PROJECT (KALININGRAD, RUSSIA)

IOM Moscow Project Development and Implementation Unit (PDIU) together with the Moscow Migration Research Programme (MMRP) units are engaged in implementing the project activities within the framework of a joint IOM Helsinki, IOM Vilnius and IOM Moscow Project “Trafficking Assessment and Capacity Building Project in the Kaliningrad Oblast, Russian Federation, funded by the Finnish MFA (funding – Kaliningrad oblast component: USD 181,244/duration: 18 months from September 2005 to February 2007). This is part of a larger IOM Baltic States Project developed within the U.S. Government’s Enhanced Partnership in Norther Participants to the EMM Training in Bolshevo Europe (e-PINE) framework entitled “Counter-Trafficking Capacity Building and Awareness Raising Activities for Officials in the Baltic The training for Russian migration professionals came as the first States”. The Kaliningrad Project represents a good start of cross- from the series of trainings within the framework of IOM TCC project border cooperation for IOM missions in the counter-trafficking area in “Migration Management in EECA: Translation, Dissemination and the Baltic region. Training of the EMM Toolkit”. It was organized as two interlinked The aim of the “Trafficking Assessment and Capacity Building Project courses: a four day training for practitioners that has taken place in for the Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia” project is to prevent and curtail FMS training center Bolshevo and one day training of trainers (ToT) trafficking in human beings through enhanced understanding of the in the IOM Moscow premises. Both activities were implemented in an crime as it relates to the Kaliningrad Oblast and increased interactive manner using principles of adult learning. The cooperation between law enforcement officials, legal practitioners, experienced instructors from IOM HQ, IOM TCC and IOM Moscow government officials, social workers, and NGOs. delivered theoretical and practical sessions for 25 officials of FMS Central office and regional bureaus on the 6 topics previously selected by FMS leadership as most vital for Russian migration specialists: Migration law and its development, Passport/visa and immigration systems, international cooperation and citizenship issues.

IOM delegation meets Kaliningrad Police The Project is implemented by IOM Vilnius and IOM Moscow offices and involves an assessment of the scale and nature of trafficking in the region followed by capacity building for law enforcement officials, NGOs, and social workers. Through this project, and other IOM

Team Work projects implemented in the region (CT Project for Russia, funded by The importance of the above mentioned topics as well as EMM European Commission and others), regional coordination and training in general was initially mentioned in the conversations cooperation in combating trafficking in human beings will be between IOM Director General Mr. Brunson McKinley and FMS improved. Director Mr. Romadanovsky and later confirmed by official letter to As a starting point of the Project, the two missions (IOM Moscow and IOM Moscow. IOM Vilnius) developed a joint implementation plan. On October 27- After its completion, the training was recognized as affective and 28, 2005 a first introductory visit was implemented by Audra useful both by participants and FMS leadership. The informal and Sipaviciene (Coordinator of the Project, IOM Vilnius), Nina Adamova interactive character of the course was especially appreciated by (Coordinator of the PDIU, IOM Moscow) and Rada Erentaite participants, who commented that this study contributed substantially (assistant to Coordinator, IOM Vilnius) to have meetings with to the effectiveness of learning. They mentioned the necessity to Administration of the Oblast, Ombudsman on Human Rights, Representative of MFA in Kaliningrad, Border Control Unit, Police

The IOM Moscow Times, Issue 5 3 officials, Kaliningrad Regional Duma representatives, Migration systems; improving access to mental health care, developing Service, AIDS and Sociological centers and NGOs to introduce the integration and prevention strategies and further capacity CT Project and analyze the level of awareness of the problem and building. As a result the participants would have a better discuss the needs and create a basis for CT solutions in the knowledge and understanding of the pertinent issues and would Kaliningrad oblast. The Kaliningrad officials welcomed the IOM thus be better equipped to meet the challenges in addressing Project and will actively participate in its implementation. migration and health in emergencies. In addition, a communication network will have been established to facilitate continuous co-operation and policy co-ordination between health and migration communities both within governments and at the international level. Another output of this joint IOM and Serbskiy Centre enterprise is an established world data-base of a network of specialists (organizations) in Internet - Website for an easy access and open use is still in great need: we keep on looking for funds for its organization. So far we have not found funds for the International Conference “Mental Health in Emergences”. However this Conference was included in the time-table events of the Ministry of Health and Social Development of Russia for the year 2005 and the Serbskiy State Research Centre on Social and Forensic Psychiatry has been appointed as a responsible leading Meeting at Kaliningrad Duma organization to conduct the renamed to “Disaster Psychiatry” As a second step the Project provides for evaluation of the THB Conference anyway. This Conference was the “short version” of situation in this oblast. This survey is carried out by IOM MMRP staff the one that IOM planned initially in cooperation with the (Galina Vitkovskaya, Anna Rubtsova) jointly with an invited Serbskiy Institute colleagues during the previous year. researcher Elena Turukanova. On the basis of the survey, The “Disaster Psychiatry” Conference took place in Moscow at roundtables and meetings with law-enforcement bodies will be the Central House of Science, Russian Academy of Sciences on conducted in order to develop a necessary infrastructure in the area 27-28 October, 2005. of counter-trafficking. In addition special educational materials will be developed and three trainings for law-enforcements officials, social workers, NGOs and other parties involved will be organized. Within the framework of this project, Anna Rubtsova (MMRP Coordinator) and Elena Turukanova, the invited researcher, visited Kaliningrad in December 2005 and conducted 25 expert interviews with representatives of law-enforcement bodies, migration and employment services, employment agencies, NGOs, mass media, migrants, etc. The analytical report will be prepared in February 2006.

IOM MOSCOW PARTICIPATION AT THE

INTERNATIONAL “DISASTER PSYCHIATRY Dr. Lyubov Erofeeva, MedPD Co-ordinator, IOM Moscow CONFERENCE” The main audience - the Russian specialists and the respected Almost a year ago IOM Moscow was approached by the foreign specialists like Dr. Ng A. from Disaster American International Department of the Serbskiy State Research Centre Psychiatric Association; Dr. Cancrow R. and Dr. Neria Y. from in Social and Forensic Psychiatry (Russian Academy of Medical the Department of Psychiatry of the Columbia University, NY, Sciences) with an invitation to jointly prepare and organize an USA; Dr. Gordon H. from the Oxford University, UK; Dr. International Conference on Psycho-Psychiatric Assistance in Tolkanets S.V. from Gomel Clinic, Belorussia; Dr. Grinevich Emergency Situations in Moscow. The conference primary E.G. from Ukranian Research Centre in Social and Forensic goals are capacity building and to enhance the understanding of Psychiatry and Narcology, Kiev, Ukraine; Dr. Maruta N.A. from the complex relationship between mental health and forced Kharkov Institute of Psychiatry and Nevrology, Ukraine; Dr. population mobility, to create a forum where policy makers, Aidos A.K from Republic Psychiatry Hospital, Kazakhstan; Dr. practitioners and other stakeholders from governments, Windisch M. from Department of Child and Adolescents intergovernmental agencies and nongovernmental bodies can Psychiatry Centre, France; Dr. Rockenschanb G. from the meet and exchange views. Outlined regulatory approaches, Disaster Preparedness Regional WHO Office; Dr. Saracheno tools and methods in concrete areas such as supporting public from the Department of Mental Health, WHO, Geneva were health research in psychology and psychiatry in case of present at the Conference too. WHO Copenhagen has emergences; strengthening information and surveillance contributed technically and financially to the meeting. The

The IOM Moscow Times, Issue 5 4 Conference attracted more than 15 hundred public health time, the total number of migrants who come to Sverdlovsk oblast employees’ psychiatrists, psychologists, health and para- remained unchanged both in 2004 and in 2005 thus this sizeable medical specialists representing different fields of the first aid increase could be attributed to a great extent to this information services provision after the crises. To cover the costs of the campaign. Conference some pharmaceutical firms were co- sponsors of More than 1500 persons applied to the “hot line” which work has the Conference, and as such, displayed their new products at been extended until 15 October 2005 at the request of officials, the Conference exhibition. migrants and NGOs. The topics for discussion at the Conference were the following: Very positive feedback was received in a letter of Mr. Abdulaev, of Psychiatric disorders caused by disaster and their therapy; the Tajik Ministry of Labour and Social Protection of Population Therapy of psychological & psychiatric disorders as Representative in the Ural Federal District, “in the opinion of our consequences of disaster; Organization of psychiatric and Diaspora, the work of the “hot line” allowed Tajik labour migrants to psychological care in disaster situations; Psychological and get sufficient information on migration issues…. We would like to ask psychiatric aspects of natural and anthropogenic disasters; IOM to elaborate and implement new programmes on the territory of Terrorism and terrorism menace: multidisciplinary approach; the Russian Federation aimed at legalization of foreign labour Psychosomatic disorders as consequences in disaster; lessons migrants… on behalf of the Tajik Ministry of Labour I assure in our learned after the 9:11 Attack in the USA, Dubrovka Terrorist readiness to take part in all initiatives of IOM in Sverdlovsk oblast...” Hostage in Moscow in 2003 and recent massacre of hostage We also received a letter of gratitude from Mr. Nifontov, Head of the taking at the Beslan School Crises in North Osetia, Russia. Migration Department of GUVD of Sverdlovsk oblast who stressed Taking into account IOM expertise in the field of Mental Health that this initiative was very useful and fit completely interests of Assistance in the Crises Situations, IOM Moscow with Mrs. Sverdlovsk oblast. Jacqueline Weekers` (MHD Senior Officer, IOM Geneva) Plenipotentiary on Human Rights in Svedlovsk oblast, Ms. assistance prepared a Power Point Presentation and offered it Merzlyakova included this IOM information campaign into their to the audience. The IOM Presentation conducted by Dr. Lyubov annual report. Erofeeva gave an overview of the current types of psychological We would like to add that this campaign has demonstrated the activities and support after the natural and anthropogenic existing positive approach of all authorities in Sverdlovsk oblast and disasters which attracted a lot of questions and comments from their willingness to search for solutions of migration-related problems the specialists expressing their interest for further collaboration. in a constructive way. Joint work on this project enhanced The Conference participants as well were provided with the IOM cooperation among various branches of authorities in the region as in-house material like its Position Paper in Mental Health, well as with NGOs and ethnic communities. With their assistance, the Migration Health Annual Report, etc. dialog in mass media on the issues of migration, tolerance and According to the organisers conducting the post-conference integration was revived that evoked the interest and as a result, the survey the specialists` feedback was very positive; the issues growing number of unbiassed publications and TV and radio discussed at the Conference should be further analyzed and programmes on these topics. could be of great interest for the emergency health and migration policy makers, for the continuity of the information Reverting to our current activities, MMRP is involved into the sharing process. IOM Moscow will continue to advocate for the following projects: organization of the well represented International Conference in In September 2005 MMRP started implementing a joint ODIHR Mental Health in Emergencies in Moscow. OSCE – IOM project aimed at informational support to the elaboration and implementation of the state programme on regularization of migrant workers with unregulated status in the IOM MOSCOW MIGRATION RESEARCH PROGRAMME RF («immigration amnesty”). This issue has become one of the priorities of the current RF migration policy. All corresponding (MMRP) governmental structures admit the necessity of taking urgent measures in order to bring out irregular migrants from the shadow Before describing current MMRP activities, we would like to glance sector and thus decrease the level of irregular migration in the back and give a very brief evaluation of the results of the country. First of all irregular labour migration makes up the bigger information campaign on preventing irregular migration in the share of overall irregular migration. According to estimates, the Sverdlovsk oblast that was conducted in April-June 2005. number of irregular migrants in Russia is above 5 million out of In issue 4 we gave details of the activities under this campaign. whom the number of irregular labour migrants makes up some 3,5 When evaluating the practical results in terms of statistics, it is worth million while the officially recruited foreign labour counted for 478,000 mentioning the following: in Sverdlovsk oblast in June the number of in 2004. In order to start designing the draft concept of regularization applications for a work permit submitted by labour migrants to the of migrant workers in the RF, the Special Working Group under the FMS doubled as compared to May (from 1,500 to more than 3000). Plenipotentiary on Human Rights in RF was established in 2004. In That substantially exceeds the figures of the same month in previous September – November 2005 the Federal Migration Service years. As for statistics for 9 months of 2005, the number of permits implemented a series of experimental legalization programmes on recruiting foreign labour force issued for employers was 3,2 times (immigration amnesties) in 9 RF regions (Moscow, Moscow oblast, more as compared to the same period of 2004 (517 in 2004 and Yekaterinburg, Irkutsk, Kradnodarskiy kray, Primorskiy kray, Omsk, 1668 in 2005), and the number of work permits for migrants also was St. Petersburg, Sakhalin oblast). three times greater (4489 in 2004 and 13745 in 2005). At the same

The IOM Moscow Times, Issue 5 5 However, RF official bodies understand that in order to start a large- MMRP Research Coordinator made reports at several conferences: scale legalization programme it is necessary to evaluate the possible Russian-German Symposium “Contemporary Migration Problems, scale of this action, willingness of migrants and employers to conference “Migration processes, migration policy and legislation in participate in it, attractive and limiting factors, possible difficulties and post-Soviet states as a reflection of changes”, at a meeting in the obstacles and elaborate the mechanisms of its implementation based Ministry of Regional Development of RF devoted to the elaboration of on the regional peculiarities, including attitude of regional authorities draft concept of the federal programme “Development of an to it. These were the goals of the above mentioned project launched infrastructure of population mobility in RF” as well as to the concept by OSCE-IOM MMRP and implemented jointly with corresponding of designing module migration centers in the RF (the cases of Russian agencies responsible for this programme – RF Federal Yekaterinburg and Kazan were examined) and development of a Migration Service (federal and regional branches) and RF Federal system of leasing of labour force in RF. She also gave several Service on Labour and Employment (FSLE). The project includes interviews to mass media including presentation in a live sociological surveys among migrants and employers in Moscow and broadcasting at the radio “Echo of Moscow” at a discussion Yekaterinburg, survey among regional branches of FMS and FSLE organized by the ROSBALT Information Agency. and among policy-makers (Governors’ Administrations and Parliaments) in 30 Russian regions. The findings of the surveys POLAND VOLUNTARY ASSISTED RETURN AND including recommendations for the regularization programme in RF REINTEGRATION OF UNSUCCESSFUL ASYLYM SEEKERS will be presented at a roundtable in March 2006 where PROGRAM representatives of RF federal and regional corresponding structures During 8 months in 2005 IOM Moscow participated in the as well as trade unions, unions of employers and migrants, implementation of the Poland Voluntary Assisted Return and academicians, NGOs including Diaspora ones dealing with providing Reintegration of Unsuccessful Asylum Seekers Programme. assistance to migrants, foreign embassies and international The aim of this pilot project was to develop efficient mechanisms for organizations will take part. assisted voluntary return of unsuccessful asylum seekers from The analytical report will be prepared, published and disseminated Poland and reintegration assistance in the country of origin. The among agencies and persons involved in this programme’s project involves providing potential beneficiaries with information and elaboration and implementation in the RF and other interested counseling on return opportunities as well as with reliable and partices. It is also planned to issue a special publication devoted to impartial information regarding situation in their country of origin and, the international experience of conducting regularization where possible, organization of the return travel and assistance with programmes. reintegration. In December 2005 MMRP jointly with the Federal Migration Service and at its request organized the first meeting entitled “Leasing of The project was executed by IOM Warsaw in partnership with the labour force: its tasks, forms and organizational and legal base” Polish Office for Repatriation and Foreigners and IOM Missions in the within the frameworks of the project “Direct dialog on the national countries of return. Out of the total number of foreigners, who had level”. Deputy Head of FMS, Mr. Postavnin and other FMS officials applied for refugee status and whose applications were rejected or from corresponding departments (department on external labour who abandoned their claim for refugee status, 66 individuals have migration, on licensing, etc.) took part in it as well as officials from the returned to the Russian Federation, mostly to the Northern Caucasus Federal Service on Labour and Employment, Ministry of Regional region. Development, representatives of the Federation of Independent IOM Warsaw arranged the returnees’ travel to Moscow, while IOM Trade Unions, Center for Strategic Studies under the Plenipotentiary Moscow provided migrants with onward tickets to their final of RF President in Volga Federal District, other research experts. The destination, transit assistance and further with reintegration issue of leasing of labour force is completely new for Russia, and has assistance. been raised only recently. At the meeting the arguments “pro” and “contra” of using this form of work with foreign labour were discussed The reintegration part of the programme envisaged assisting as well as possible infrastructure and basis of its work. The returnees in the activities aimed at facilitating their integration. IOM participants considered this issue very important and worth Moscow staff in charge of the reintegration component of the discussing with respect to the future development of migration and programme developed individually tailored reintegration plans for economic policy of the RF and decided to organize a second meeting each migrant. The reintegration grant money in the amount of 250 on the same topic in February 2006. They also admitted that this Euro per individual was used by the returnees for professional form of communication between practitioners and expert community training or upgrading, partially covering costs of further education, was very effective and expressed their wish to develop this work and restoration of the destroyed houses/apartments and setting up of expand the range of topics as it gives the possibility for officials to get small businesses. Despite the difficulties encountered with signing competent information from experts and necessary argumentation contracts related to various reintegration services and activities, as that will help them in elaboration of concrete managerial decisions. well as the problems with money transfer to the Northern Caucasus MMRP provided consultative assistance to FMS in evaluating the region banks all the returnees have expressed their gratitude for the draft amendments to the law “On the status of foreign citizens in the reintegration assistance provided by IOM. RF”, draft law “On Migration registration of foreign citizens and At present the results of the pilot project are being analyzed in order stateless persons in the RF” and proposals on advisability of to decide if it should be continued. implementing the programme on regularization of migrant workers with unregulated status in RF.

The IOM Moscow Times, Issue 5 6 MOSCOW MIGRANT PROCESSING AND MOVEMENTS IOM MEDICAL UNIT INFORMS From July 1 through December 31, IOM Moscow continued its work with the Russian government, the U.S. State Department, the U.S. IOM Medical Unit has permanently provided extensive information to Department of Homeland Security (DHS), and various UNHCR migrants in the form of leaflets and counseling by phone and offices and U.S. Embassies across Europe and the ex-USSR to personally. implement its program of voluntary resettlement to the United States for migrants and refugees. Recently IOM MED has created a video, containing necessary IOM Moscow supports the U.S. government's resettlement efforts in information on the medical examination processing for migration and West, Central and East Europe, as well as the ex-USSR. The largest possible rejections on medical grounds, as well as the most important group of beneficiaries is in Krasnodar, where a temporary IOM office information about such infectious diseases as TB and HIV. continued working on the Meskhetian Turk program. IOM Moscow staff also traveled to process cases, interview applicants, prepare files for interviews, and assist U.S. government officials in: Baku (Azerbaijan), Belgrade (Serbia and Montenegro), Chisinau (Moldova), Dushanbe (Tajikistan), Frankfurt (Germany), the Hague (Netherlands), Kiev (Ukraine), Skopje (Macedonia), Timisoara (Romania) and Tbilisi (Georgia).

Timisoara: Refugee Center Comprehensive statistics for the period were as follows:

IOM Info Video Continuously Plays At the IOM Clinic Waiting Applications received and processed: Room 8'717 individuals The information is shared with migrants on TV/DVD at the IOM Presented to DHS for status determination: medical center, when migrants have some free time in between x- 8'432 individuals ray, phlebotomy and medical examination. Cultural Orientation provided to:

1'853 individuals The aim was to make the complex procedure of medical examination Departures to the U.S.: more comprehensible and efficient and migrants more cooperative. 8'032 individuals

The applicants get answers to the numerous questions, which are not asked yet, but may arise later.

TAMIFLU PROCUREMENT AS A PART OF IOM RUSSIAN FEDERATION CONTINGENCY PLAN FOR AN INFLUENZA PANDEMIC.

Russia is considered as a high-risk country, given its size, geographical location bordering with a number of high-risk countries and presence of already confirmed cases of avian flu among birds. Taking into account WHO recommendations, the UN Country Team (UNCT) procured a basic stockpile allowing for a 5-day course of Tamiflu treatment for 30% of all their staff and their dependants. In addition, the UNCT is planning to procure enough Tamiflu to cover prophylaxis needs of the ‘essential staff’ identified by each agency. IOM requested supplies sufficient to cover 50% of the IOM Constructing a Traditional oven at the Refugee Center in population. 142 packs (covering 30% of IOM population) Timisoara have been already delivered to IOM. Procurement of the rest (doses for the coverage of the essential staff) is

The IOM Moscow Times, Issue 5 7 expected to be completed in the 3d quarter of 2006. For all other staff, stockpiling of Tamiflu for preventive use is a personal choice of each staff member.

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