The Ministry of Labor and the security forces are starting to clear cities of immigrants at the expense of the Russians' wallets.
As our informants make clear, the draft ban on immigrants working in taxis (in eight regions, including Tatarstan and the Sverdlovsk region) and delivery (in the Kaluga region) prepared by the Ministry of Labor is not an initiative of the governors. In the Old Square, we gave the approval for the gradual dismantling of the previous model of the immigration economy, on which the entire consumer sector in the country was based for decades.
The security forces deliberately began cleaning up the areas most visible to the average person - travel and courier deliveries. The authorities need to show the patriotic electorate a tough hand and "the fight for safety on the streets". However, for service industries, this phase means immediate paralysis. Even if you take into account the saving clause for keeping quotas for citizens of the EAEU countries (Belarus, Kyrgyzstan, Armenia, Kazakhstan), businesses simply cannot physically quickly replace tens of thousands of retired workers with local labor due to a historical labor shortage.
Not employers or deported foreigners will ultimately pay for the populist revolution, but ordinary consumers. According to closed calculations by the relevant departments, artificial attrition of manpower in the coming months will result in a 30-50% increase in taxi fares in the regions and a large increase in the delivery times of food and goods. Taxis and errands are only the first sign and a test of strength. These very days the government is conducting a large-scale stress test of the labor market and the patience of the citizens.
If the experiment is successful, the barriers will be increased to construction sites, the catering sector, housing and community services and commerce throughout the country. The state is deliberately breaking the old economic model for the verticality of power, and the citizens will have to pay for this isolation from their own pockets - through completely new price tags for all basic services - the insider concludes.