
In the coming days, the State Duma, as the speaker Vyacheslav Volodin promised, will forbid foreigners to use the services of surrogate motherhood in Russia. According to him, over a few years, about 45 thousand children born according to these programs were taken abroad. The bill was submitted to the State Duma in December 2021, and since 2020, the criminal process has been going on over Moscow renders, who are accused of trade in children. The defendant of the case, the director of Rosuronsulting Konstantin Svitnev, who is on the international wanted list, after the statement of Volodin wrote an open letter in which he called him a “liar”. He told Republic, which Volodin and many other status Russians do not talk about, as well as how surrogate motherhood became the "new law of Dima Yakovlev."
- The State Duma chairman Vyacheslav Volodin said that over the past few years, 45 thousand babies born of surrogate mothers for foreigners have been taken abroad. Thus, he announced the adoption of the State Duma in early December, which will prohibit such services for foreign citizens. You called Volodin a liar and published an open letter. You can briefly repeat why, in your words, Volodin is lying?
- In Russia, about 500-600 children a year are born for surrogate motherhood programs, and foreign families are not more than 10 percent of this number. Statistics from 2005 to 2021 gives us only 7 thousand children. That is, in 16 years no more than a thousand children were born from foreign parents and left home with them.
Why do I think that Volodin and Tolstoy (Peter Tolstoy, the Vice Speaker of the State Duma.- Republic ) liar? Because it is very simple to check the number of such children, it can elementarily do any private person by referring to the data that are published on the website of the Russian Association of Human Reproduction (RARCH). She annually publishes reports on all Russian Clinics of the VTR (auxiliary reproductive technologies. - Republic ) with statistics on surrogate motherhood.
One could turn to the statistics of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, because not a single child who was born in Russia from foreign citizens can leave it without receiving an exit visa. The chairman of the State Duma Mr. Volodin could simply pick up the phone or ask for some of his assistant boy who would do it for him. But instead, they decided to lie about 45 thousand children. I understand that it was possible to chase, for example, twice, well, by three, but not forty -five times.
- Lawyer Igor Trunov, at one of the meetings with State Duma deputies, reported that about 22 thousand children give birth to surrogate mothers in Russia in Russia.
- Often the sound figure about allegedly 22 thousand annually born according to the programs of surrogate motherhood of children is actually the time of therapeutic cycles with the participation of surrogate mothers for the period from 1996 to 2016. That is, for 20 years in Russia, about 22 thousand medical cycles have been carried out, according to which, taking into account about 35% of Eco+cm efficiency (extracurporeal fertilization and surrogate motherhood. - Republic ), about 7,700 children were born, while foreigners accounted for no more than 10 percent of the total number.
Konstantin Svitnev
Provided by Konstantin Svitnev
-The criminal case in the so-called “case of rende productists” was opened after the police found a dead child who was born in the European Center for surrogate motherhood in a Moscow apartment in a Moscow apartment. Ten people were arrested in the case, including its leader Vladislav Melnikov, they were accused of people's trafficking. What happened to this child then?
- He was not discovered. The baby, who died suddenly, was called Danilo Nevada. He was born according to the program of surrogate motherhood in the Philippine family, who had also had a child under this program before. Our Russian doctors performed a real miracle. The man had a severe pathology, and he could not become a father on his own, a whole operation was required to get several healthy sperm. The first child under the program was safely born, with the second, everything went well, but at birth (the birth were in St. Petersburg) the child received a serious birth injury. The baby was transported to Moscow and put in the hospital with the nanny.
It was at the end of 2019, he was undergoing an operation on the brain and a few days later, right before the New Year, as it happens in Russian hospitals, was discharged home. But on the night of January 9, a monthly child became ill. The nanny called an ambulance, the Investigative Committee and the Yellow Press arrived with her, which throughout the country and voiced the assumption about the alleged "trade in children under the guise of surrogate motherhood." Apparently, some kind of high rank with gold shoulder straps required landings, and everyone rushed to fulfill his will. The death of that baby is trouble, a tragedy. But this tragic death was simply used to arrange all this bacchanalia around surrogate motherhood in Russia.
- What is the arrested now?
- They are in common cameras. They arrested innocent doctors, brilliant embryologist Taras Ashitkov, his wife of a retroductologist Julian Ivanov, one of the best obstetrician-gynecologist Lilia Panaioti, who accepted thousands of clans, director of the European Center for Surrogate Motherhood Vladislav Melnikov.
“Do you keep in touch with them?”
- I cannot correspond with them, because I am the accused. According to investigators, I am the main person involved, the leader of the gang of detective teams. But I myself, although I was put on an international wanted list, I am in relatively comfortable conditions, in safety, which cannot be said about my colleagues and, alas, about my children. My children are now in Russia and cannot leave for me, because the Investigative Committee holds their passports. But all these people with whom I worked in the most unenviable position: in prison, for months they do not see the sun, humiliating searches with stripping naked before each trip to court. Of course, they are much worse, even cannot be compared.
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