Yevgeny Ivanov on the prospects of labor migration from India

CSRA researcher told the Indian portal Counter Сurrents about the recent trends in the labor migration market in Russia and discussed the possible influx of labour migraint from India.

While Russia’s labor migrant quota once peaked at 1.7 million in the early 2010s, the numbers declined over the years. Yet the trend has reversed again. For 2025, the Russian government has set a quota of 235,000 foreign labor migrants – 72,000 of them earmarked for India alone.

This marks a subtle but clear strategic pivot. Russia is looking beyond its post-Soviet neighborhood and toward countries like India to fill essential gaps in its labor market. For Indian workers, this means new options in an era when Western migration regimes are becoming increasingly restrictive.

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