“Moskovskiy Komsomolets”: Lukashenka deports criminals to Russia
- 22.12.2009, 11:39
Belarusian authorities deprive persons of citizenship and deport to Russia without documents.
A 48-year-old Gennady Ivanov addressed to the editorial office of “Moskovskiy Komsomolets”. He told how he had been deported from Belarus. Besides, he informed that out of 48 years of his life he spent 32 years in place of detention. He is responsible for a car theft, murder, thefts, robbery, 2 escapes from places of detention. There are 9 terms of detention in the criminal biography of Ivanou. Against this background his last imprisonment term looks rather innocent: hooliganism. However, after that the prisoner became a person destitute of nationality.
“I was serving the term in a prison of the Belarusian city of Hrodna, and I was released on September 11 this year,” Ivanov said. “But my joy didn’t last for long. I was taken to a temporary detention facility and told that I would be deported as “a socially dangerous person”. It is unprecedented, a person who was born in the country, was expelled from it. I was to be sent to Russia. However the Russian consul in Brest answered that I am not a citizen of Russia. But the Russian migration service gave permission for me to enter the country”.
Ivanov was handcuffed, a ticket to Smolensk was bought to him. Law-enforcement officers left the train in Vorsha, on the last station at the Belarusian territory. They gave accompanying documents to the train master. He gave them to the deported man in Smolensk. He was sent to Russia in clothes of a prisoner, without money.
Gennady Ivanov cannot return to Belarus. If he tried to enter the territory of Belarus, he faces 5 years of imprisonment. Ivanov says that before the last prison term he had a Belarusian passport and citizenship. However documents about that were seized by policemen. Now he has only a document about release from prison and birth certificate with him. He was allegedly deprived of citizenship “because he is socially dangerous”. However, as the migration department of the Interior Ministry of Belarus informs, there is no such notion as “deprivation of citizenship” in the law of the country at all. One can only deny citizenship out of one’s free will.
The most important document thanks to which Ivanov hoped to settle in Russia he finds a document signed by the head of the Federal migration service directorate of Russia on issues of citizenship Mikhail Utsyatski. It is stated in the document that Gebbady Ivanov has a right for Russian citizenship, as at the moment when the Russian law on citizenship was adopted, he was in Russia, he served a term in Volgograd.
“I want to return home to Belarus or to settle in Russia,” the former prisoner said. “And now I am like a cosmonaut, in an outer space. I was camping on the doorsteps in Volgograd, Smolensk, Bryansk, tried to be registered there, but I was denied everywhere. I cannot find job. I want them to say who I am and receive any kind of a document”.
As “Moskovskiy Komsomolets” writes, it means that Lukashenka is sneakily shoving his villains to Russia, while promising eternal friendship to Russia. Earlier occasions of deportation of foreign citizens from the country were reported. Thus, in 2006 a political analyst, a Russian citizen Andrei Suzdaltsev, was deported from Belarus to Russia. He was famous for his critical attitude to the policy of Minsk. Now it has come to deportation of Belarusians.