Almost 9,000 Russian citizens received temporary or permanent residence permits in Argentina, Mexico, Brazil, Uruguay and Paraguay in 2023, the Reuters news agency reported on March 17.
In comparison, just over a thousand permits of this type were issued in 2020. The publication reports that after the start of the SVO in Ukraine, the number of emigrants from Russia increased in Latin American countries.
So Ilya and Nadya Gafarov, former bankers from Vladivostok, are going to open a Russian bathhouse in Buenos Aires. The influx of Russian emigrants to Argentina is gradually changing the appearance of the city’s neighborhoods. Russian cafes and beauty salons open. Parishioners of the Russian Orthodox Church in the Brazilian city of Florianópolis are looking for a permanent priest. Waiters, teachers and cashiers began to learn simple phrases in Russian.
Let us remind you that, unlike Europe and the United States, most South American countries do not require visitor visas for Russian citizens and extending the usual period of stay of 90 days is usually not difficult.
Latin American countries do not send aid or weapons to kyiv.
Source: Rossa Primavera
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