“Neither of which change the order of evacuation of Russian citizens from the territory of a foreign state in connection with natural disasters or armed conflict question. Similar events are held by decision of the President of Russia and in accordance with the government resolution of 18 November 2014, No. 1216. Payment of expenses in these cases shall be at the expense of the Federal budget”, – stated in the comments of the Department.
the Changes are not connected with the export organization of flights in the conditions of a pandemic, say the diplomats. It’s not even about that. The amendments relate to government decree number 370, which stipulates the procedure of granting assistance to the Russians on a Pro Bono basis in exceptional cases where there is an imminent threat to their lives. His application is supposed to make it “wider” and extended to “special cases which can be faced by any citizen abroad (e.g., loss or theft of money and documents)”.
Previously, the draft government decision initiated by the Ministry of foreign Affairs, was published on the Federal portal of projects of normative legal acts. As follows from the text of the document, it is that the citizens who found themselves abroad in a difficult financial situation or no means could apply for financial help and even to identify the amount you need – but on the condition that you agree to return it within three months. This obligation is spelled out in the contract between the beneficiary and the Commission of overseas missions of the Russian Federation. If a citizen does not repay the debt on time, it can be “charged force”. This initiative should not be confused with the provision of financial assistance to the tourists who have filed through the portal.
on the one hand – nothing to do with it. We will remind, the situation with coronavirus and closures in Russia recognized non-standard, therefore on the basis of government decree number 433, it was decided to allocate financial assistance to the tourists waiting to export flight (2400 rubles per day per adult and 1,600 rubles per child). Legally, however, the lockdown was not seen as an immediate threat to life of citizens stranded abroad (except for some humanitarian cases).
meanwhile, to support our people diplomats in some cases involved “reserve” – just that most of the government decree number 370. But it provides for assistance to compatriots abroad in emergency situations when there is immediate threat to their life. For example, if a citizen was in the area of natural disasters, clashes, man-made disasters. In diplomatic circles, it was recognized that the wording, as no PAradikalno can tie the hands of the Embassy. After all, the immediate threat may not be: lockdown – this is not a terrorist attack. While many people have turned out for him in extreme need.
There is one caveat: for assistance under this article is not incorporated a separate budget. “The Embassy can raise funds through permitted activities, that is, in the first place, consular fees. But the last two months due to lockdown any fees to them does not come!” – at the end of may marked the official representative of Russian foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova in an interview to “Rossiyskaya Gazeta”.
Now in the foreign Ministry wants to clarify the effect of this, 370, the ruling and to expand it in the interests of the compatriots.
Recall that the evacuation was declared the export of a group of Russians from Wuhan two military transport aircraft in February, when it announced the start of a pandemic. In other cases, insist in the Ministry of foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, we are talking about export routes. After their organization began to be coordinated through the portal of public services, the government has fixed the fares of domestic airlines – € 200 from Europe and 400 euros from abroad.
However, some of them were completely free. As he wrote, “RG”, at the end of April in Surgut there arrived a special flight of the company “UTair”, which returned home 192 the Russians from Indonesia and Thailand. By decision of the Governor of Ugra Natalia Komarova, the passengers did not have to pay anything for the flight. And the Russian Union of Industrialists and entrepreneurs was funded in July, “the African ring” – an unprecedented operation Ministry of foreign Affairs on the difficult export 205 people (among whom were also several citizens of Ukraine and Kazakhstan) from seven States.
