MOSCOW, November 29 (RAPSI) – The Federal Migration Service (FMS) has created a special information service on its website which will allow the foreigners to check if they can enter Russia, the FMS head Konstantin Romodanovsky told RIA Novosti on Friday.

“Unfortunately, some foreigners are wont to violate the law. And then they sincerely wonder why they are forbidden to enter the country, ” he said.

According to Romodanovsky, 380,000 foreigners are currently forbidden to enter Russia mostly because they have missed the deadline for stay in the country. The legal duration of stay in Russia is 120 days.

Moscow authorities have in recent months staged a series of raids on the city's market places, where many people from former Soviet republics are employed.  The authorities say the drive is an attempt to root out crime, although critics have dismissed the tactic as a populist stunt.

In October, a nationalist mob rampaged through a market in south Moscow after a local man was knifed to death by a man the police later said was from Azerbaijan.