Last week, our Filipino baby sitter had a bad experience. She is a very nice and good lady and it made me very angry to hear what happened to her in a 21st century Russia. Her passport is currently at her embassy, being extended so that she can stay here longer. Her only reason for being here, is to work hard to send money back to her husband in her country. By bad luck or stupidity, she and her fellow flatmates moved flat two weeks ago. They rented a flat of a Policeman. Last week, she had a knock on her door, she answered it to see two tall, large fat Russian Police with machine guns standing in her doorway. They shouted at her to give them her passport and 500 Dollars, she told them she did not have 500 dollars, she was then put in the Police car and taken to the station and kept in a cell for three hours. They then went back to see her in her Police cell and demanded the money again. She told them she only had 200 dollars so they took her home and took that money from her. This money was to be sent back to her husband for her children. She told me she was shaking and crying the whole time and was terrified. She came to us crying. She is usually a very happy laughing woman. I know she was stupid to have rented a flat of a "Policemen" but she did it because he is a Policeman, because she thought she could trust him better than another flat owner.
I expect the two Russian Police, went out that night and got very drunk. I suspect, the flat owner, phoned his friends to tell them that he had six Filipino women in his flat and did they want to make some fast easy money. What a bastard. Its beyond belief, that this kind of thing still happens in a modern developed Russia. Whenever I see a Policeman, I look the other way and I am white and not a criminal. When will things change here within the Police?
The bad guys give the good guys a bad name.
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March 17, 2010
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Unfortunately, bad things happen to foreign workers anywhere. I didn't know Russia allows foreign work like in the western countries where unemployment is significant yet they give work permits to outsiders.
ReplyDeleteSuch practice is really spread in Russia. I mean allowing foreigners to work.
ReplyDeleteBut this accident was a crime committed by the Police officers. If this woman was enough brave and strong I would offer her to complain about this crime or just to say the officers about this possibility when they were asking for money.
Evgeny
ReplyDeleteForeigners will work and its their right to but they should not be subject to hooligan Police and money extortion.
Nothing will ever change in Russia. Read the literary works of 18th,19th centuries and you'll find the same wide spread corruption from top to bottom, and the same silent, submissive people tolerating it.
ReplyDeleteDear English man in russia
ReplyDeleteThis is very real thing in moscow. It heppend to my sister-in-law. She came to visit us from england. She was going to supermarket police asked her passpot she showed her passport they took registration paper from her and put it in their pocket and said there is no registration papers and asked for money. She was taken to police station I was to pay money to get her out. Welcome to moscow have a nice time!
I don't think I want to visit Moscow. It sounds a bit scary!
ReplyDeleteIts a bit scary but its different. You have to alter your mind set, which so far I have been unable to do. Its not so bad but worth a visit if only for the experience!
ReplyDeleteWell it is so sad to hear this thing. Foreign workers particularly filipinos, who will sacrifice to live and work in a very far place and serve other countries and people yet they are treated badly with persons whom they expect to get some help or protect them in any time the need arises.We filipinos work and live in other country to earn good money for the future of our families, children, etc. It is really hard to be apart to your family. Pls have mercy on them.
ReplyDeleteYou need to say that to the Russian Police not me.
ReplyDeleteOh it is not you Mr. Englishman in Moscow. I am talking about the russian policeman.I really appreciate what you wrote here about my countryman. I am a filipina. God bless good people like you.
ReplyDeleteIt will not change in Russia. My advice is make money stay a short time and leave. Be careful here and be safe and sensible.
ReplyDeleteHi to everybody!
ReplyDeletei am agree with Mr. Englishman in Moscow, Russia will never change. its pity.
i am asian and i was born in Russia but the most people think that i am chinese and i have to go there and live, its hard explain to everybody that u have the same rules which have russian people but all the time i should fight for my place, even now i am working in a foreign company ( it just sounds like foreign company) my chief accountant try to show me my place, she just treat me, its wrong but i guess its life. i dont have a choice.
Sorry for my english
I wish u all happyness.
Be carefull in moscow!!!!!
Veronika
Veronika don't worry be happy we will survive here and you to.
ReplyDeleteHi, here in Dubai we have an awful lot of stories about Filipino helpers being abused in all sorts of ways, including physical abuse by their employers, even by an upper-class,polished western families who are presumably more humane then the others...It`s a common practice to take away maid`s passport, pay them 100-200USD (our cat costs us more than that), make 10 people sleep in a single room.
ReplyDeleteJust like this people, moronic Russian policeman feel all-powerful, and used to get away unpunished no matter what...
xxxx Dubai`s cat
I am sure its true. I feel sorry for them but they are not all that good at childcare but it does not mean they should be treated like animals by rich families.
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