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Pregnant Russian Women Have Found a New Way Out
In a friendly nation around the world.
Pregnant Russian women are abandoning their country in droves to give birth in a country with no visa requirements.
It’s warm and sunny most of the year, health care and education are free, and the cost of living is relatively low in USD.
And it’s halfway around the world from Putin.
Yep, it’s Argentina.
80 Pregnant Women On a Flight
This week, a total of six Russian women were held back at Ezeiza airport after arriving to Buenos Aires. They were 32 to 34 weeks pregnant, had no address where they’d be staying in Buenos Aires, and no return ticket.
They claimed to be arriving as tourists, but the migrations officials’ alarms sounded. How is a woman arriving to the country alone at 33 weeks pregnant going to be traveling as a tourist around Argentina?
Later, they confirmed they were there to give birth, away from home. And they did not want to be returned to their country.
These women aren’t the only ones looking to have their babies on Argentinian soil.
One Ethiopian Airlines flight arriving this week carried 33 pregnant women coming to Buenos Aires to…
