Russia complained about Argentine restrictions to give visas to citizens of their country

treatment

towards the citizens of that country who seek to enter and settle here.

The complaint refers to the

that thousands of Russians began to encounter, among them

who, in the last year of the war in Ukraine, chose Argentina as their destination to have their children, and even obtain citizenship of this country. country, at a time when Russia is subjected to Western sanctions on all fronts.

There is talk of

, some with irregularities in their arrival, in their documentation and in their settlement objectives.

But most with enough money to have a good standard of living.

The truth is that although

the Argentine Foreign Ministry in Buenos Aires in written or verbal form, nor through the ambassador in Moscow, Eduardo Zuaín, it materialized through the Russian news agency TASS.

The head of the consular department of the Russian embassy in Buenos Aires, Georgy Polin, spoke about the weekend.

"We are aware of the situation with the

of newly arrived Russian citizens. We also take note of

(and even cancel previously issued ones), as well as how issue an order to leave the country as soon as possible under the threat of starting deportation proceedings. So far, we are talking about

, ”the diplomat began by saying.

"We would assume that the non-discriminatory implementation of such provisions of Argentine law implies that citizens of other countries with a visa-free regime with Argentina would also be denied a residence permit if the relevant bilateral or multilateral treaties contain similar provisions. In

Polin complained, while, curiously, Ambassador Dmitry Feoktistov has noticeably lowered his public profile.

In Buenos Aires, the community of Western diplomats has done to Feoktistov, what the United States and the European Union have done to Russia and Vladimir Putin: they

.

There is even a report, which could not be confirmed by Clarín, that Ambassador Feoktistov has little time left in his mission in Buenos Aires and that he would be transferred to the Russian embassy in Caracas.

The Russian citizens who arrive in Argentina have gained notoriety throughout the world.

Not only because they arrived by the hundreds a week with very different reasons behind their story, but because of the arrival of pregnant women, even about to give birth.

If their children are born here, by law, they also have the right to be Argentine citizens, which later they can also transfer to the husband.

Citizens with a Russian passport can also enter Argentina and stay up to 90 days in each 180-day period

.

This is due to a migration agreement signed between the two States in 2009, along with the alliance with Moscow, which Cristina Kirchner sealed, and which Mauricio Macri and Alberto Fernández continued at the time.

While in 2022, the Argentine Migration Service approved most of the Russian requests to extend their stay as tourists in the country, there was a recent event that affected that climate of confidence.

It was the arrest in December of two Russians in Slovenia, with Argentine passports and whose children, born in Buenos Aires, are also Argentine.

Ludwig Gisch and María Rosa Mayer Muños, the Russians detained in Slovenia, are

, among other charges.

Although the couple's Argentine citizenship was acquired in 2012 and 2014 respectively, their arrest alerted the National Directorate of Migrations, whose director, Florencia Carignano, was the one who first explained to the media the delay in Ezeiza of some six pregnant women who according to said unit had given false information.

A judge let them in, due to how lax local immigration measures are.

But his delays in Ezeiza were interpreted more as a message in the midst of an investigation that is being carried out by the justice system into the alleged existence of an illegal network to bring Russians to Argentina.

Since then, Polin, the official at the Russian embassy in Argentina, complained, Argentina's immigration service "began to deny Russians the opportunity to extend their tourist stay in the country." with the measures taken against them, appeal the decisions legally with the help of collegiate lawyers, and if they do not speak Spanish, also involve interpreters," he told TASS.

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