Tourists from Moscow Petr Pelekhanov and Olga Lifanova. Screenshot: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pmnefrQKgA

12 October 2021, 08:32

Moscow tourists tell about month of slavery in Dagestan

Pyotr Pelekhanov and Olga Lifanova, tourists from Moscow, hitchhiked trying to get to Crimea, but they were taken to Dagestan by deceit and sold for 50,000 roubles to a greenhouse farm, from where they managed to escape only a month later, Pelekhanov himself said.

Pyotr told about how he and Olga Lifanova, residents of Moscow, got by deceit into slavery in Dagestan in a video clip posted on October 11 on the "Mash" Telegram channel.

"We were on the way to Crimea to have a rest, (...) and we decided to do it by hitchhiking. From the toll road we got in a bus, (...) it took us to Dagestan by a fraud. When I realized that this was the entrance to Dagestan, I raised a boil, ran up to the driver, 'Listen,' I said, 'I'm going to break windows now; stop your bus, I wasn't going to Dagestan.' He said: 'You've been sold to a brick factory'," Pyotr Pelekhanov said in the video.

According to his story, they both were sold into slavery for 50,000 roubles.

Olga and Pyotr were in slavery for a month; they were forced to get up at four in the morning and had to work all day in greenhouses in the village of Novaya Maka (in the Suleiman-Stalsky District, – note of the "Caucasian Knot"); they were locked up at night in some room unfit for living. In early October, Pyotr found a trapdoor under a pile of rubbish; and they managed to escape. Pyotr and Olga returned to Moscow and are planning to achieve justice. So far, their applications submitted to the Dagestan police have yielded no results.

This article was originally published on the Russian page of 24/7 Internet agency ‘Caucasian Knot’ on October 11, 2021 at 08:37 pm MSK. To access the full text of the article, click here.

Author: The Caucasian Knot

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