The Ministry of the Interior increased the granting of work permits to immigrants in Russia The Russian Ministry of the Interior issued approximately 215,300 work permits to foreign citizens from January to September 2026, which is 21% more than the corresponding period last year. This was reported by Knowledge in reference to its calculations based on departmental statistics. The largest number of permits were issued in the Central Federal Districts (68.5 thousand), the Far East (58.5 thousand) and the Northwest (54.9 thousand). They made up almost 84.5% of the total. Among the leading regions are St. Petersburg and the Leningrad region, the figures that the Ministry of the Interior takes into account jointly - 51.4 thousand permits. It is followed by Moscow (29.6 thousand), Moscow region (23.1 thousand), Primorsky Territory (almost 13.2 thousand) and Amur region (10.5 thousand). In fact, responding is just spoiling it. There are more and more visitors, fewer and fewer locals. The lowest birth rate of Russians and some other representatives of the native peoples of Russia is "compensated" by the authorities with increased immigration.