"We are leaving for Russia"
Kamila Kazieva has lived with her grandmother since childhood in the village of Novobakhmutovka, Yasinovatsky district, near Donetsk.
According to Camila, her mother Inna refused to raise her daughter when she was still a baby.
“She gave birth to me and brought me to my grandmother in a huge bag.
She said: "Either to the orphanage, or take it and do whatever you want."
And she left, ”the girl says in an interview with RT.
“My father is from Chechnya, a citizen of the Russian Federation, but he did not communicate with either Inna or me.”
Until the age of 16, Camila saw her mother only twice: “When I was six years old, she came, took me to Moscow for a couple of months, she said, they say, now we will live.
But the money ran out, she washed down and returned me to my grandmother.
History repeated itself exactly when I was eight years old.”
In May 2014, when the Armed Forces of Ukraine were already shelling the Donbass, Inna Kazieva appeared on the threshold of Kamila's house.
“She brought some clothes as a gift, fruit.
She boasted of a large amount of money, but did not give us anything.
She spent the evening with us, and then disappeared again, ”the girl continues.
- She returned in July without money - she said that she skipped.
And then she offered to go to Donetsk, to take groceries for my grandmother from the militia.
She said that without me she would not be given anything.
Camila agreed: “I went for my granny.
But in Donetsk, Inna took me to the station and said: “We are leaving for Russia.”
And she takes out my birth certificate, which she stole from her grandmother.
Inna promised that as soon as we settled in Russia, we would take my grandmother out of the shelling.”
From Crimea to Siberia
Camila should have received a Ukrainian passport just at the age of 16, but, according to her, her grandmother did not have time to submit documents for registration before Inna took her daughter to Russia.
As a result, the girl's passport was issued in one of the Red Cross field camps.
Kamila and her mother moved from city to city until they were put on a train to the Crimea in Krasnoarmeysk.
At the Crimean recreation center Assol, the Kazievs lived as refugees for about a month.
“Soon, the administration announced that we could move to recreation centers in other regions.
Mother found out where they give the biggest lifting and where you can get an apartment.
I chose Krasnoyarsk as a result.
I wanted to visit my grandmother, and Inna told me: “I have a multi-million dollar loan there, so if you want to go, go alone.
But without you, they won’t give me an apartment and money in Russia, ”says Kamila.
The Kazievs arrived in Siberia on September 1, 2014.
They settled in the "Zharki" camp in the Rybinsk district of Krasnoyarsk, where refugees were placed.
“The attitude was very good!
They brought us new things with tags, gave us hygiene items and other humanitarian aid.
But some began to sell these things on the market.
The media found out about this, and they stopped helping us,” recalls Kazieva.
At the end of September, Camila went to the 11th grade of the local school.
However, it was not easy for her to study: “I was a good student in the DPR, and then they told me that I was not good at it, especially the Russian language.
And we had it canceled in the fifth grade!
I passed the tests for the ninth grade, passed the exams and on November 1 entered the vocational school as a pastry chef in the Kansky district in the village of Georgievka.
The college gave me a hostel.
I decided to live separately: my mother always drank, disappeared somewhere, and I was left to my own devices.
In 30-degree frosts, Kazieva walked in light sneakers and an autumn jacket.
“I had a scholarship of 600 rubles, which was not enough for anything.
It was a shame that the orphanage girls share hygiene products with me, but they themselves have nothing.
In the winter of 2015, I went to my mother to ask for money, ”the girl recalls in a conversation with RT.
“In the meantime, she refused to work, fought with other refugees, stole, tore my things and photographs.
But the worst thing is that she burned all my documents.
I left for Georgievka with nothing, and a month later I found out that my mother had left, leaving me here.”
Illegal status
At the age of 17, Kamila Kazieva found herself alone in a foreign country without money and documents.
The director of the technical school where the girl studied volunteered to help her.
“He called the police to restore the documents there.
And the police said: "You have a few months before deportation."
Until the age of 18, I was considered an illegal child, but after coming of age without documents, I would have been expelled from the Russian Federation, ”she says.
The court, held in April 2015, recognized Camila as an orphan.
As the girl explained, at the meeting she managed to get through to Inna, but she began to swear at her daughter on the speakerphone.
"Screamed:" May she burn in hell and be damned!
I sent everyone and switched off, ”the girl recalls.
As for Camila's father, the court did not send a request to search for him, although the girl asked for it.
As Kazieva was told at the meeting, “this will be an extra ballast and dragging out the case,” she recalls in a conversation with RT.
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As an orphan, Kazieva received 12,000 rubles until she graduated from college.
At the same time, the girl applied to the migration service to start obtaining Russian citizenship, but, according to Kamila, she was ordered to come after the age of majority.
“When I turned 18, in August 2015, they came to me from the police and said:“ It’s time to take responsibility for your actions, ”meaning my illegal status.
The director of the technical school barely persuaded them to let me finish my studies,” she says.
Printing in the wrong shape
In 2016, Kazieva transferred to part-time, moved to Krasnoyarsk and got a job as a dishwasher: “I wanted to save money for a lawyer who would help me get Russian citizenship.”
There she received a salary of 5 thousand rubles.
This was not enough to pay for certificates, medical examinations, translation of documents into Russian, Kamila lists.
The missing money was given to her at the crisis center, but she was denied refugee status: “They referred to the fact that the passport has an irregularly shaped stamp.
I made it in a field camp, there was only one seal for all documents.”
After graduating from a technical school in 2017, Kamila's orphanage payments ceased.
“I was lucky that in March 2017 I met a lawyer, she raised everyone’s ears, a week later I was given refugee status and granted temporary asylum,” recalls Kazieva.
- But this status in itself did not give the right to get an official job: it was necessary to obtain a temporary residence permit.
I have contacted the presidential administration."
An answer came from the Presidential Administration: a quota for Kamila has been allocated, she can apply to the migration service.
However, the girl needed a certificate that she officially worked for a year.
“And this required the approval of the migration service, which I did not receive over and over again.
For some time, I managed to find a place where I was registered under an official contract and the salary was not given out in an envelope, but I had to leave from there.
In the meantime, the quota was running out,” she says.
Health problems
In November 2021, Kazieva broke her leg and ended up in the hospital.
There, she was diagnosed with eye and thyroid disease.
“I have exophthalmos, which is when my eyes start popping out.
Now it's the second stage.
If left untreated, the consequences are strabismus and blindness.
Also, my thyroid gland swells, tachycardia appeared, she lists.
- When I found out about the diagnoses, my hands dropped.
At that time, I lived with a friend, worked in cleaning: I washed windows for 1 thousand rubles.
All the money went to medicines.
Camila considers it unfair that in eight years she has not been issued a passport.
As a result, the 25-year-old girl turned to the Investigative Committee and two days later, on November 2, 2022, she received Russian citizenship.
But when Camila went to the clinic, she was told that the operation required not only a passport, but also a residence permit.
Then Kazieva went to the administration of Krasnoyarsk and asked to give her an apartment as an orphan.
“It turned out that you have to stand in line for an apartment before the age of 25.
But at that time I did not have citizenship yet.
Now I will go to court to restore the terms,” she says.
— I do not have a local residence permit.
Perhaps it will be possible to transfer the residence permit to the DPR, but we are still waiting for a response from the local authorities.
I hope my mother didn't release me."
As it turned out, Inna Kazieva, having abandoned her daughter in Russia, returned to Novobakhmutovka.
“She constantly harassed her grandmother,” says Camila.
She jumps under cars, fights.
I don't want to go back there."
Camila's grandmother died on July 28, 2022.
Due to difficulties with documents, the granddaughter was unable to attend the funeral, which she regrets most of all.
“I lied to my grandmother: I said that everything was fine with me, that I received citizenship and an apartment so that she would not worry,” the girl shares.
“Now she probably sees that I have been telling lies all these years.
So ashamed!
Closer than my grandmother, I have never had anyone in my whole life.
Now Kamila has asked Krasnoyarsk City Council deputy Roman Krastelev for help.
He told RT that he had sent deputy requests on this situation.
“Formally, Kamila has a registration in Russia, but her house is located on a territory that has not yet been liberated.
For eight years she tried to obtain citizenship, and officials refused her, even when the DPR was included in the Russian Federation.
I believe that Camila should be provided with housing in the near future, ”Krastelev emphasized.