Is the story true about the Russian border guards who had driven Tajik migrants from the Russian Federation for molesting women at the checkpoint?

In early October 2024, a video spread on the Web, in which men in camouflage forced to leave their cars several people - as states, Tajik migrants who were harassed by women at the checkpoint between Russia and Kazakhstan. We checked the reliability of such publications.

On October 3, a lasting for more than 2 minutes was divorced through Telegram channels. The video on which men, dressed in camouflage shape, roughly pull people out of cars and put them on the ground face down. You can hear that they speak Russian loudly, using obscene and swearing words. Also on the record you can recognize the sound of a working electric shocker. The video is accompanied by a signature (copyright spelling and punctuation are preserved): “On the Kazakh-Russian border in the Chelyabinsk region, Tajiks began to pester women, even without really visiting Russia. Tajik began to dissolve his paws to refuse one of them. As a result, the Russian security forces laid all the face to the floor and kicked out of the country. ” 

With this commentary, the video published such channels as "Pozdnyakov 3.0"(375,000 views at the time of writing this analysis),"Voblya Kursk"(156 000),"The first folk | News"(118 000) and"What happened?"(88 000).

For the first time a video appeared In the afternoon of October 2 in the community "PE | DTP Chelyabinsk in VKontakte. The signature reads: "On the border" Bugristae ", according to eyewitnesses, a group of foreign citizens arranged a skirmish, after which an outfit was called." Soon about the incident wrote Telegram channel BAZA (526,000 views). According to him, between those who came to the border there was a conflict due to places in the queue for control, and the Russian border guards and police officers “firmly calm down” motorists.

“Bugristae” is a checkpoint in the Chelyabinsk region, from the Kazakh side he corresponds to the Kayrak checkpoint in the Kostanay region. The viral video was shot quite far from the Russian border post, but the background is visible in the background, the lower part of which is painted white or gray, and the upper one is blue. Judging by pictures On Yandex.Marts, the complex of buildings of the Bugristae checkpoint is designed similarly. It is difficult to determine where the roller was shot - in the border zone, the shooting (and even more so the passage of Google Street View and similar services) is prohibited, so the photos and videos from there are few. There are no identification marks on the security forces captured by the author of the video, but they speak Russian (however, Kazakh border guards can also be used). “Verified” did not find comments on the situation published on the official resources of the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation, the National Security Committee of Kazakhstan and their relevant regional units.

It is not clear from the video which citizens were forced to get out of cars and lie down on the ground, do not write about it in the original source. The car passing by at the beginning of the video is really registered in Tajikistan (the country's code is indicated in the left side of the license plate). However, the numbers of the machines from which the security forces pull out people are not visible on the recording. 

Chelyabinsk edition 74.ru with reference to users of social networks reportsthat the conflict, presumably, arose in a separate lane for citizens of Tajikistan. According to information Lenta.ru, five people stood in line to extend the terms of stay in Russia (according to the laws of the Russian Federation You can do it Including the checkpoint), and then began to swear. The version of the conflict in line is confirmed by the video itself - closer to the end of the video (2:05), the voice of a man who says: "Who started a fight here?" Kazakhstani media told About the incident Mostly With reference to Baza and did not bring additional information.

Citizens of Tajikistan, Kazakhstan and a number of other states can enter Russia without a visa and be In the country for 90 days from a row of 180. This means that it is impossible to make a visa-wra (that is, to go to Russia again to update the deadlines), such actions Counted violation of the migration legislation of the Russian Federation and are punishable by the ban on entry for up to five years. Foreigners who are in Russia for study or work are entitled to a longer stay and do not need a periodic visit to the checkpoint to “renew” this right. With what purposes people are on the video, according to media reports, enter or leave the country, is unclear. However, in April, the official representative of the Foreign Ministry of the Russian Federation Maria Zakharova declaredthat "more than 40% of foreign citizens seek to leave Russia ... after 90 days (out of 180 laid) in order to immediately go back."

In any case, no authoritative source says that people who came to the video are migrants who molested women. On the record, the security forces pull out more than ten people from cars. It is unlikely that so many people from different cars at about the same time harassed women who are not even visible on the video and who are not mentioned by the participants in the incident.

In addition, the Border Service of the FSB of the Russian Federation does not have the authority to “expel” foreign citizens, as indicated in the distributed posts. In relation to foreigners in Russia, there are two measures: deportation, that is, a compulsory exit of a citizen to another country, and expulsion - a type of punishment for offenses. The decision on deportation Takes Main Directorate for Migration of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and expulsion Assigned Only after consideration of the case of an administrative offense. Recent Amendments In Russian migration legislation, the police allowed the police to expel migrants without trial, but they will enter into force only in 2025. According to this amendments, expulsion will occur for violation of administrative articles on drug transportation, drinking alcohol in public places, as well as propaganda of pedophilia and “non -traditional sexual relations”. Although Telegram channels claim that Tajik citizens were “kicked out” for harassment, there is no such concept in Russian legislation. 

The fact that the video captures Russian border guards and migrants from Tajikistan, who was pretending to be an unknown woman, first reported the Pozdnyakov 3.0 Telegram channel. He posted his post on October 3 at 13:01 Moscow time, almost a day after the publication of BAZA with the same video. Vladislav Pozdnyakov - The founder of the Male State movement, promoter feminine, homophobic, nationalist and anti -Semitic ideas. In 2021 it It was recognized extremist and is prohibited in Russia. 

It is noteworthy that after the publication of the post in the Pozdnyakov 3.0 channel, a similar entry appeared In the anonymous channel "Evil Migrant" (8000 views). “We are against Nazism and extremism in our country! We do not make anything! Respect all the nations, ”says Description channel. At the same time, its authors use the word "in relation to migrants"Masturgicals", And the video from the photo shoot of newlyweds-Muslims with a goat Commented The words: "That is the most polygamy."

After the terrorist attack in Crocus City Hall in March 2024, in the organization of which Russian investigating authorities They are accused Including citizens and natives of Tajikistan, anti -migrant sentiments intensified in Russia. In Russian cities Festivable raids on the search for illegal immigrants, the authorities gradually Tight migration policy. One of arguments In favor of such decisions - a large number of crimes committed by migrants (as previously It wrote “Tested”, at least until 2022, the share of crimes committed in Russia by foreigners rarely exceeded 2%). In August 2024, Levada-Center said that about a third of the Russian citizens They think "Sens of visitors, migrants" The most acute problem of modern Russian society. Against this background of the Foreign Ministry of Tajikistan several times advised To refrain from visiting the Russian Federation to their citizens, to the last such statement was published September 10. Kyrgyz Ministry of Foreign Affairs also several times distributed Similar warnings.

Thus, a video about how Russian border guards “kicked” Tajikistan citizens from the country for harassment to a woman on a checkpoint, appeared on the network a day before with the explanations that at a checkpoint between the Russian Federation and Kazakhstan the security forces stiffly stopped the conflict between motorists in the queue. In the viral video there is no evidence that its author captured exclusively migrants and that they performed any illegal actions. Also, there is no evidence that all of them were expelled from the country after the detention.

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