A resident of Sverdlovsk, who was about to be deported to Uzbekistan, was saved by one phone call.

      A Sverdlovsk resident who was to be deported to Uzbekistan was saved by a single phone call

      today at 12:55

      In Yekaterinburg, the deportation of Viktor Shilov, a resident of Kamensk-Uralsky, was suddenly canceled. The father of seven children, who has been living in the Urals for 22 years, was to be deported to Uzbekistan due to document issues.

      Photo: UFSSP Russia in Sverdlovsk Region

      Shilov had already been at the airport with a ticket to Tashkent when a investigator’s call came through. Viktor told the E1.RU portal about it.

      — "They took me to the airport, we passed through the security checkpoint, reached the registration. All deportees were being checked, the line came to me — and suddenly there was a delay.

      The officers started negotiations, which lasted about 20 minutes. It turned out that the investigator from Kamensk-Uralsky had discovered that Shilov was already being processed for Russian citizenship. He was released from handcuffs and taken out of the airport.

      Perhaps the three-hour delay of the flight to Uzbekistan also played a role. Currently, Shilov is in the Center for Temporary Containment of Foreign Citizens (CTVFG) and is waiting for his passport to be processed. After that, he plans to reunite with his family and formalize all documents.

      Unfortunately, there have been many such stories over the past years:

      Vladimir Melnik, a native of the Kazakh SSR, was separated from his wife and children, deported from Pervouralsk to Kazakhstan with a five-year ban on returning.

      We previously reported on another Russian family with two children being deported from Yekaterinburg with a five-year ban on returning. Fortunately, that situation ended well.

      In Yekaterinburg, a 22-year-old student from Kazakhstan is being deported from the country. The young man has lived in Russia for nearly five years, and after his studies, he found a job at the Ural Regional Center "Pod'emtranstekhnika."

      In February this year, we wrote about human rights defenders trying to help a mother and her one-and-a-half-month-old son return from Kyrgyzstan to Russia; the baby is undergoing treatment at the Sverdlovsk Regional Children's Clinical Hospital.