Travel Restrictions in Russia

CUSTOMS REGULATIONS FOR RUSSIAN CITIZENS

(by Elena Garrett)

August 2009

 If you have a Russian penpal who is trying to fly to your country, but there are some legal difficulties that prevent her (or him) from leaving the country, this brochure can save you alot of doubt, heartache, and, potentially, money.

The brochure will address four different scenarios that we encounter often in our cases:

• your penpal was asked to demonstrate financial independence (a sufficient amount of travel cash) before she could leave the country
• your penpal was prevented from leaving the country until all her bank loans were paid in full
• your penpal was detained at the airport and fined because she failed to properly declare a valuable item in her luggage
• your penpal was detained at the airport and fined because she failed to provide a prescription for the medicine she was carrying

How do you know whether your penpal is telling you the full truth about the circumstances of her travel difficulties? Can you confirm that the difficulties she is facing are legitimate, or exaggerated for her own financial benefit?

Please take the time and effort to read this brochure. This information will present the facts you need to know to determine, whether your penpal’s situation is legitimate or suspicious from the legal standpoint.

$24.95

Accurate information about Russian laws and regulations is not easy to find, especially if you do not speak Russian.

This particular brochure critically examines the claims that many Russian ladies (and men!) supposedly traveling to another country make about the so-called “solvency money” (often called “pocket money,” “cash money,” “money to show to customs”). It also examines claims about frequent situations when an undeclared item of value, such as an icon, a ring, or some prescription medication, became a problem for a departing Russian citizen traveling overseas.

To provide our audience with the most accurate information about those complex legal issues, Elena Garrett (the owner of this site) contacted the Customs Service at the Sheremtievo airport in Moscow and videotaped an interview with the representative from the Customs Service of Russian Federation, Officer Igor Lukichev. The interview was conducted in August of 2009.

Officer Lukichev was kind enough to comment on the various claims that Russian ladies make about the requirements that the Customs Service imposes on the departing passengers.

Customs Service Mayor Igor Lukichev

The translated video recording of the interview will hopefully be available shortly, but in the meantime, Mrs. Garrett put together a brochure to make the content of the interview available to the site’s visitors as soon as possible. In the brochure, the transcript of the official interview with Officer Lukichev and excerpts from letters of several Russian women are presented side by side for easy evaluation. After you finish reading the brochure, you should know enough about those matters to feel confident making decisions on those issues.

The cost of the brochure is $24.95. Most proceeds are used to assist the victims of the Russian dating scams with filing criminal complaints with Russian authorities.

Content Overview

1. Introduction (Pages 2-5)

2. The solvency money requests (pages 6-9)

do the Customs officers require the passengers to demonstrate the solvency money?

• 3 quotes from the ladies’ letters
• the commentary by Officer Lukichev

3. Unpaid loans and mortgages (pages 10-13)

do the Customs officers screen for passengers with open loans?

• 3 quotes from the ladies’ letters
• the commentary by Officer Lukichev

4. “Undeclared valuables” (pages 14-19)

can the Customs officers take passengers into custody or assign fines for a failure to declare an icon or a ring?

• 3 quotes from the ladies’ letters
• the commentary by Officer Lukichev

5. “Undeclared valuables”: prescription medicine (pages 20-21)

Can the Customs officers arrest or fine someone for failing to declare prescription medicine?

• 1 quote from a letter
• the commentary by Officer Lukichev

6. Where to look for information about main set of rules regulating the travel issues for Russian citizens? (pages 22-25)

7. The facts behind the “solvency money” – dismantling the myths, finding the truth (p. 26)

8. The facts behind the “unpaid mortgages and loans” claims – dismantling the myths, finding the truth (pages 27-28)

9. Conclusions with some surprises (pages 29-31)

HOW TO ORDER

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Click on Add to Cart button if you would like to purchase the document with your credit or debit card. For other forms of payment, please refer to our Payments page. With any questions about ordering, please contact us.

$24.95

Once your payment is processed, you will be able to start downloading the document immediately.

If for some reason to download does not begin at the time of checkout, contact Elena Garrett by email (elena@russian-detective.com) and she will be able to email you the copy within hours of your request.