MOSCOW, October 21 (RAPSI) - 81 special facilities for illegal migrants must be established in Russia, Federal Migration Service (FMS) head Konstantin Romodanovsky said in an interview with Kommersant daily.

The conditions for foreigners in such camps must conform to international standards, the FMS head said.

According to Romodanovsky, one half of the facilities will be created new, the other half of the camps will be delivered to the FMS from police. Furthermore, the conditions there will be more humanized than they were in the camp earlier set up for foreigners awaiting deportation in Moscow's eastern Golyanovo district .

Hundreds of immigrants, most of them from Vietnam, were placed in a tent camp in Moscow over alleged violation of migration rules after massive raids on Moscow markets and other migrant workplaces in August.

Under Russian law, detained foreigners are supposed to be kept at special centers for non-citizens. But the Moscow authorities ran out of space for such detainees after police rounded up hundreds of people in a series of round-ups focusing on outdoor markets.

According to the Grazhdanstvoye Sodeistviye (Civil Assistance) NGO Grazhdanstvoye Sodeistviye (Civil Assistance) NGO, the Golyanovo camp was chaos, it had no hot water and personal hygiene facilities.

Human rights campaigners said that the camp was illegal. Many of the inmates did not even have time to collect their personal effects and documents when they were detained by the police.

Romodanovsky qualified such substituted camps as a short-term and uncivil practice.