1 Construction of the other through national law: Legislative framework of the Russian migration regime and non-Russian citizens from former Soviet republics Larisa Kosygina 1 Paper Presented to the CREES Annual Conference, 5-7 June 2009 Cumberland Lodge Windsor Work in progress 2 . Please do not cite without the author’s permission 1 Candidate for PhD at the Centre for Russian and East-European Studies, University of Birmingham, U.K. – 2 TСe paper presents material from tСe tСesis „TСe Russian miРration reРime and miРrants‟ eбperiences: tСe case of non-Russian nationals from former Soviet-republics‟. The research was funded by Ford Foundation International Fellowship Program.