YEREVAN. – Russian “Compatriots” projects serves for the reason of undesirable migration from Armenia, head of State Migration Service of Armenia Gagik Yeganyan told at a press conference on Friday.

He said that 780 families or 1897 people left for Russia since the beginning of the project in 2007. According to Yeganyan, number of people desiring to permanently reside in Russia has increased especially during the latest eight months and reached 18,827. Generally 29,500 people applied the office of the project. 997 people received right of migration.

The issue concerns Armenian government. Armenian PM also expressed concern about the project in his meeting with the intellectuals in Oshakan. Russia adopted the project of residing compatriots in 2006. The project aims to reside those who stayed out of Russia after the collapse of Soviet Union but desire to reside there.