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Ethnic tensions in Russia resulted from failures of cultural and educational policy, President Vladimir Putin said Thursday in his annual state-of-the-nation address to the parliament.
"This is sort of an amoral international, which combines insolent people with origins in certain southern regions of Russia and corrupt officers of law enforcement bodies who cover up for the ethnic mafia," Putin said.
He also blamed the so-called Russian nationalists and various sorts of separatists, who are ready to "make any common tragedy a reason for vandalism and blood-spilling rampages."
Unregulated foreign labor migration provokes ethnic conflicts, increases tension in society, hesaid, adding the state must maintain orderly migration policy.
"The state must know for what a foreigner comes to Russia," Putin said.
The President also said foreigners violating the procedures regulating their rule of stay "will be barred from entering Russia for three to ten years, depending on the gravity of their offence."
