Citizens of Afghanistan, who came to Russia for training or earnings, refused to return home. With Afghans who lived in the Russian Federation talked “Kommersant.”
In addition to the desire to stay in Russia, the Afghans told that they want to transport here relatives. First of all, women (wives, sisters and mothers), in their opinion, will be hard to live under the authority of the Taliban movement (a terrorist organization prohibited in the Russian Federation). One of the visits said that his sisters to the victory of the Taliban quietly received education: one went to the university, the rest studied at school.
“Now they are sitting at home, because women to study are forbidden to walk, and to appear on the street without accompanying men – dangerous,” said the person named Afghan, who works by a loader at the grocery market in Moscow. Another 18 Afghan police who came to Russia to improve the qualifications of film engines is also afraid to return to their homeland. “For us, this is a question of life and death, because the return to Afghanistan is now impossible,” the commander named Bahrom said.
Afghans asked for help from Russian human rights defenders. One of the organizations “Civil Assistance” helps them to arrange documents for staying in Russia. In the N6-owned time, citizens of Afghanistan hope that the NPO will give them the opportunity to transport relatives in the Russian Federation.
According to the coordinator-translator of “civil assistance” of Fakhima Fahya, about 100 thousand visitors of Afghans live in Russia, 20 thousand in Moscow. He stated that the problems of Afghans began long before the Taliban took Kabul on August 15. “The war in Afghanistan is already 40 years old, it is very difficult to live in the country. Many Afghans tried to fleeously run through Russia to Europe,” said Feros.
Earlier at the briefing, the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry Maria Zakharov said that at the consular accounting of the Russian Embassy in Kabul there are about hundreds of Russian citizens. According to her, mostly, these are ethnic Afghans who “at different times studied in Russia or the Soviet Union, have acquired their families, received citizenship,” and after returned to Afghanistan. She noted that many of these people currently appealed to the embassy with a request to evacuate them from the country in Russia.
August 15 militants “Taliban” entered Kabul. President Ashraf Ghani fled to the UAE, according to some sources, taking a large amount of money with him. At the moment, the country is managing a temporary advice that will have to officially convey power to the Taliban.