Labor migrants are now prohibited from working as public transport drivers in Russia’s Chelyabinsk oblast.

By Chelyabinsk governor’s regulation that took effect on January 1, 2017 labor migrants are prohibited from working as public transport and taxi drivers in the oblast.

Meanwhile, the current cost of patent to work in Chelyabinsk oblast is 3,600 Russian rubles. 

Russia’s national budget last year reportedly received more than 38 billion Russian rubles from selling labor patents.

Russian Interior Minister Vladimir Kolokoltsev noted in late December that Russia’s budget last year received more than 38 billion Russian rubles from selling labor patents, which was 1.5 times more than in 2015.