Million of Belarusian migrant workers to leave country due to fines for “parasitism”

They will stop feeding their parents, children and wives.

The country will get an army of hungry unemployed people unable to work, ucpb.org reports.

The Interior Ministry proposes to fine adults of working age who reside in Belarus and avoid paying taxes, duties and other payments for more than 6 months a year. Persistent spongers will be arrested and made to work, the ministry's press centre writes.

What will the regime achieve by the law on parasitism? Those who work in Russia won't return to Belarus even to see their families out of fear not to get caught by the police. Families will break up and Belarusian migrants will get a legal status in Russia. Belarus will lose a million of workers, active, ready to work, whose hands and brains are in demand.

As a result, the state will have to feed women, old people and children that are now provided for by migrant workers.

If the country wants to improve the economic situation, new effective jobs should be created, investments and technologies should be attracted, the whole system should be changed. If the country wants.

The regime thinks it prepares a legal basis to jail Vinahradau and activists like him, but doesn't see consequences of its awkward and stupid actions.