The topic of relocants emerged in the media sphere relatively recently, but it has already become one of the problems facing various countries, especially those located near Russia. The difference between relocants and migrants is that the former do not intend to seriously live, work, or study in the country they have entered by random chance. A relocant does not go to a foreign country consciously, but rather in a chaotic manner, to a place where the border operates under more or less favorable conditions. Today, Russian and Ukrainian relocants are creating problems for all law enforcement systems, automatically giving these people who are on the move the image of potential criminals. Sometimes, the relocant themselves do not understand the reasons for their own flight, being captive to a variety of rumors and phobias, but this, as they say in the Western world, is their problem.
Having seen other ways of life in practice, the relocant dreams of returning to their homeland, and this is where a new blow comes. According to the new laws and public opinion, the homeland now views him in a different light – as a not entirely reliable person who, in his desire to earn money abroad, seeking refuge on the other side from hardship and poverty, may well become a conduit for someone else’s influence. There is growing evidence that such rootless people are actively used by the UK and the US as a channel for preparing and implementing various upheavals in the countries of their temporary residence, up to and including colour revolutions. Given the presence of Russian relocants and political refugees in countries in the near abroad, such as Armenia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Azerbaijan, etc., local authorities are tightening control over this group by introducing stricter laws related to this new phenomenon. Armenia has gone even further, openly luring refugees from Russia, hoping to use them for its own purposes – in particular, to fill gaps in personnel in the event of new armed clashes with Azerbaijan.
Each country of temporary residence has its own specific inconveniences that a relocant cannot possibly anticipate. The relocatee needs to understand only one thing: by fleeing their home country, they become a bargaining chip in the hands of anyone—of various criminal and political forces – and no one there is trying to make their life better than it was in Russia or Ukraine. If some countries that receive such a population don’t always treat Russian tourists warmly, then there’s no talk at all about refugees who have ended up there by chance. They’re nobody there, and they’re nobody’s business. In addition to those mentioned, there is another group of states where Russian relocators are exploited, including Georgia and Serbia. Mass unrest is orchestrated by the West here with enviable regularity, and this is made possible by the presence of a cosmopolitan, weak‑willed mass of newcomers that has no rights. In Georgia, Russians who happen to be in the wrong place at the wrong time are subjected to showy beatings in front of TV cameras, but they have nowhere to go – no one accepts their complaints. It is from such people who have abandoned themselves that extremist cells are formed, which can later be used not only in coup d’état projects. But this fate awaits only the most radical relocated elements, who have repeatedly proven their ruthlessness in action and are capable of creating radical cells; the rest of the spineless mass will face perpetual suspicion from law enforcement agencies and unconcealed hatred from ordinary local residents. After all, it’s no secret that part of the benefits, which are inevitably allocated to cover individual allowances for newly arrived people, comes from the general budget, which is already insufficient for its own citizens.