Russian Federal Migration Service (FMS) spokesman Konstantin Poltoranin, who was fired after giving a controversial BBC interview, said on Thursday that he was mulling new job opportunities.
"I am not the press secretary with the Federal Migration Service anymore. I have not decided where my future place of work will be," Poltoranin told RIA Novosti.
Poltoranin was sacked immediately after the BBC Russian Service posted a video quoting the official as saying: "We want to make sure the mixing of blood happens in the right way here [in Russia]... What is now at stake is the survival of the white race."
Federal Migration Service chief Konstantin Romodanovsky later said that "such remarks are inadmissible for any Russian official, particularly for a representative of the Federal Migration Service."
A Kremlin official welcomed the dismissal on Wednesday, saying it was "a logical and necessary move."
Poltoranin graduated from the Moscow State Law Academy with a law degree.
He served as a press secretary with the Interior Ministry's Internal Security Department in 2003-2005, and later moved to the Federal Migration Service.
MOSCOW, April 21 (RIA Novosti)
