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Northern route
About what is happening with people who decide to escape to the west through Russia - The New Times was told by the Syrian journalist Muja Abu Alejail
Muja Abu Alejael supports the action of the committee against torture with the advent of the Islamic State * (IG) Syrians realized that war and instability in the country were for a long time, although there was a hope before: a little more-and the conflict would end. Many went to Turkey, just to leave a difficult time. Now they are leaving mainly forever. However, in August, Türkiye closed the border with Syria and announced its intention to deport its citizens
* * According to the Office of the Supreme Commissariat of the UN for refugees for July 2015, there are about 2 million Syrian refugees in Turkey. .
The Gazelle to the border is a wave of migrants from Syria, who overwhelmed Europe, could not bypass Russia - through it there is a transit to Norway and Finland. True, there are more exotic routes - through Belarus (asking for asylum in Minsk) and Ukraine (first along the water path from Istanbul to Sochi, and then on the Gazelle to the border with Ukraine), but such attempts are unsuccessful. There is no need to talk about the well -established business on the transfer of illegal migrants through the Russian Federation yet - this route is unpopular. But with an increase in the risk of a sea trip from Turkey to Greece, the number of those who decide to try good luck on the Russian route may increase - and the path is already amazed for them.
The path through St. Petersburg to Finland was opened last summer. The Russian authorities immediately tightened control, refugees are actively wrapped on the Russian side, in the border cities. In September last year, 20 Syrians tried to cross the border with Finland by a train, they were stopped in Vyborg, 19 people were deported to Syria a month later. The other 30 people trying to travel through Murmansk to Norway are now waiting for deportation
* According to media reports, 5–20 people illegally cross the Russian-Norwegian border monthly. 
If you want to go to Schengen - Pay the ransom those who plan to fly from Russia to Sweden or Germany in advance make a fake Schengen visa in Iordan - it costs about $ 15 thousand, and the Muira story begins. There are practically no problems with Russian visas. The Syrians who flew to Russia named Muhammad also had a fake “Schengen”: he was allowed to go to the country on a checkpoint in Sheremetyevo, but they immediately warned that one page was not enough in his passport, and sent to the Syrian embassy in the Russian Federation. Muhammad, of course did not go there. As a result, he and his wife Nadia and three children illegally lived in Russia for about four months, after which he decided to penetrate into Europe through Belarus. The cost of the “service” amounted to € 7 thousand - some “businessmen” promised the Muhammad family that they would go from Moscow to Berlin to Gazelles. The family never reached Germany - the “carriers” took his wife and children on the road hostage, demanding another € 7 thousand for their release - the Cyrian managed to pay. The last time he called Muiz a month later from Sheremetyevo Airport - the family was going to fly to Qatar.
But the Iraqets Hazzhe wanted to drive through Moscow to Switzerland. For moving to Moscow from Iraqi Kurdistan, he paid about € 2 thousand, and for a Swiss visa - € 12 thousand. Three months later, his wife, who was the first to leave for Switzerland, informed the journalist that she was demanding a ransom for the Khazema near Moscow - € 7 thousand Muja advised her to apply to the international interpol, which would redirect the Russian request, - - Hazem, shortly before, filed an application for temporary asylum in Russia. Literally a few days later from the Russian Interpol reported that everything was in order with Khazem and he is not hostage. However, there is still no connection with him.
Usually, intermediaries between refugees, police and employees of the Federal Migration Service (FMS) are most often “translators”-Syrians who have moved to Russia earlier. But there is practically no information about the main beneficiaries of the business transportation business to Europe. Their victims flatly refuse to speak, although it can be assumed that Russian Syrians also participate here. It seems that Russian special services play a role in this-in any case, the story with Khazema leads to such thoughts.
Refugees from Russia , whom carriers “throw” halfway to Europe, apply for temporary asylum in the Russian Federation. Here their prices - one setting in the queue for an interview in the FMS costs about 15 thousand rubles. But few people choose this or legal path of receiving asylum - now the Syrians are striving to leave Russia. With a decrease in the purchasing power of Russians, illegal Syrian business (for example, underground sewing factories in Noginsk near Moscow) becomes unprofitable for its owner. The owner pays for the employee of the temporary shelter, and the maximum figure is 100-120 thousand rubles. The economic situation in the Russian Federation is such that one factory has already closed, Muiza notes, so there is no point in paying so much money for workers at ruining owners. The Syrians who arrived five years ago can no longer feed their families in Russia or send enough money home.
Rumors that through Turkey it is easy to get to Germany quickly spread among illegal migrants in Russia. Moreover, more and more often, refusals began to come from the FMS to provide temporary shelters and those who sought to receive them in a legal way. The Syrians made conclusions - and gathered to Turkey. About 50 people who voluntarily announced in the FMS about the absence of temporary asylum had already left Russia. They bought tickets to Istanbul at their personal funds. And out of 60 families living in Noginsk (in each for 5-6 people), only 4-5 want to stay in Russia.
Muiz himself cannot return to his homeland: IG * will immediately kill him because he is Ismailit (
The Shiite branch of Islam, in contrast to the Sunnism professed by the militants. - NT ), supporters of Bashar al -Assad will put him in prison as an oppositionist, and the formation of the opposition “Free Army of Syria” will probably be suspicious of a Syrians who lived in Russia, whose leadership supports the Syrian government.
*Recorded Daria Khlyakina ** prohibited by Russia. Photo: Facebook.com