In Bashkiria, a 27-year-old female parishioner of an evangelical community and her 5-year-old daughter are held in slavery
Alla Fedorova with her daughter
In the city of Davlekanovo (Bashkiria), a prosperous young 27-year-old mother, Alla Fedorova, was judicially deprived of her parental rights in regard to her five-year-old daughter Azaliya because she is a parishioner of an evangelical church, – reports the press service of ROSKhVE.
Alla, who was living in Moscow with her daughter and husband, learned of this decision by the Davlekanovo District Court entirely by chance – she was not even notified that hearings were taking place in this matter so important to their family.
The application to terminate parental rights was filed with the court by Alla’s ex-husband, who had not paid alimony and had not had contact with his daughter for several years since their divorce. However, the main initiator of the proceedings was Alla’s mother, Nadezhda Petrovna, a well-known entrepreneur in the city.
After her divorce, with a small daughter, Alla began attending an evangelical church. Her mother, who had watched numerous programs about “sects,” strongly disliked this. Constant conflicts erupted in the family – the mother would come to the services and, creating scenes, drag her daughter home, controlling her every step and even beating her.
To reassure her mother about her spiritual searching, Alla agreed to go with her to an Orthodox priest for a conversation. After speaking with the women, he advised Nadezhda Petrovna to leave her daughter in peace and let her believe in God as she sees fit. That proved insufficient. Then, at her mother’s request, the young woman agreed to see a psychologist in order to determine whether she had been “brainwashed” or not. After observation in a day clinic, doctors confirmed that the woman was healthy and required no treatment. Yet this did not pacify the “caring” mother – the scandals and beatings continued.
As a result, Alla and little Azaliya were forced to leave their hometown. The young woman came to Moscow, where she found a job, enrolled Azaliya in kindergarten, and continued to attend an evangelical church. Throughout this time, fellow believers helped her. The young woman’s personal life also began to improve, and after a while Alla married a Christian named Andrey. Alla’s parents refused to attend their daughter’s wedding and church ceremony.
During their honeymoon, the newlyweds learned the shocking news that in Davlekanovo, Judge Zayneev had decided to take the child away from Alla. She could not understand what could have prompted such a decision, for she and Andrey have no harmful habits, are officially employed, provide the child with everything she needs, and above all, love her dearly. The young mother turned for help to the Russian United Union of Christians of Evangelical Faith, the Public Chamber of the Russian Federation, the Commissioner for Children’s Rights of the Russian Federation, and the prosecutor of Bashkiria. An article about this situation appeared in the newspaper Moskovsky Komsomolets. As a result, on August 3, the case was reviewed, numerous violations were discovered, and the court’s decision to terminate parental rights was overturned.
Overjoyed by this turn of events, Alla and Andrey tried to reconcile with her parents. Yet, after visiting her relatives, Alla fell into real slavery. According to Andrey, the young woman was “drugged with some psychotropic pills; she is in a state of insanity.” Since August 5, her parents have been holding Alla against her will in their house and will not let her husband see her. Azaliya has also been separated from her parents; Andrey still does not know where she is.
Andrey sought help from the police in the city of Davlekanovo. Police officers visited the Fedorov family, “conducted a preventive conversation” about the illegality of unlawfully depriving a person of freedom and … left Alla there, even though she was crying and begging to be taken away. Andrey attempted to contact the duty prosecutor of Davlekanovo, but on a Saturday he did not even find him at his workplace.
For several days now, Andrey has been unable to bring his wife home to Moscow. Their employers, who thought they had gone to Bashkiria for just a few days, are threatening to fire them if they cannot return in the next few days. Meanwhile, law enforcement personnel create the appearance of work but do not resolve the problem.
“Davlekanovo is a small town, everyone knows each other,” says Andrey. “It seems that everyone here is tied together like some kind of anthill; laws here do not apply at all, and no one can help us. I get the feeling that the police are deliberately dragging their feet and do not want to solve the problem. I am very worried about Alla. Her mother even threatened to kill her ‘sectarian’ daughter. After all that has happened, I don’t know what to expect from her.”
Elena Semenova
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