Left Russia on the 17th. The law changed on the 20th. Couldn’t return on the 25th

Angry blogger, with a 7-month-old baby at her side. “How long do we have to wait?”

“Report this guy to the Public Prosecutor’s Office. We didn’t break the law, we came to our country with the documents and they simply expelled us.”

“When I, emotionally, started asking “how long do we have to wait?””.

Alexa Prutova, A well-known Russian blogger, she was clearly angry when she vented her feelings on .

Context: on the 17th de Janeiro, Alexa left Russia for a family trip, including with her 7-month-old daughter. On the 25th, he tried to return but they wouldn’t let him enter no country.

Because, in between, On the 20th, a law came into force in Russia that prohibits minors from leaving the country with just a birth certificate..

Until now, highlights , parents could take their children without a passport to: Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Abkhazia and South Ossetia.

The blogger had gone to Astana (Kazakhstan, therefore) on the 17th. That is, when the law had not yet come into force.

Upon returning, on the night of January 24th, the family passed through border control in Kazakhstan without any problems.

Already in Russia, and already on the 25th, the problems: documents confiscated and they were told to wait: “A boy arrived and started threaten me saying he was leaving lock me and Eva (daughter) in a room for those who have problems with documents”.

“Tell me how long we have to wait? We have a small child, we have no food, we are running out of water and we don’t have a battery for the heater”, he warned. The baby needed formula milk at that time.

At this point, Alexa was already to cry.

The person responsible for the border then turned to the blogger’s husband: “You are a man, calm your wife. Why are you raising your voice?”

“But that guy stood there and told me, with a trembling voice, that we were nobody. He said “he has no documents”…”, he reports.

The blogger insisted: “Understand that we, Russian citizens, came home with all the documents! We left with a certificate when there was no law! Everyone let us through, and now we can’t go home?”

The man replied: “Your citizenship means nothing“.

“I will file a complaint at least for this sentence”, concludes Alexa Prutova.