Denied freedom hope will pay the victims are completely at other peoples mercy the church a good outlook would know how did this appalling situation arise. But although the politicians are doing little to address the problem we meet the people who are taking action. The horrible thing is that in russia people are being in slave by fellow russians you dont find that anywhere else in europe. This is one of many illegal brickyard in the dug you stand region in the south of the Russian Federation not all the workers are here voluntarily many were abducted to toil away in the punishing conditions and without getting paid the might not be any camps with fences and guns but these people are slaves as we learn here modern day slavery doesnt necessarily involve chains and whips. This is alexei he works for an engineer that frees forced labor us. Alexa knows this young man is a slave hes been here since june alexa demands that the foreman pays him wages to which he responds maybe but only five something in the quakes. Alexy asks what he scared of an office to take him and others away from here but the young man is reluctant to get involved he was brought here against his will and is clearly scared. Lots of people think if someones not locked up or in chains then theyre not a slave even if they have to work hard you know. The man has suffered physical abuse as he now reveals to his family. Its unbelievable what goes on in. Here. They punched me in the face for nothing. Thanks to. My slaves who were put to work like this men from rural areas with low levels of education. Who are willing to do very menial work. That we paid work without a contract. To which. These men a lark was looking for help. When we asked whether he will come with the next day he thinks hell come and the others agree otherwise youll die here alexei tells them to pack their bags. The first step is to take the bus to moscow from the old travel back to their respective homes but many of these stories of exploitation happened to begin in moscow itself sashas night mass started on Komsomolskaya Square a busy hub home to three railway stations rural migrants gather on the square looking for work zappa was one of them. And you see it but they all have bags. And thats how he can spot the people who on from here that. Traffickers approach the man with promises of a good jump off the books anyone wanting to work in moscow officially has to be registered in the city migrants from the former soviet republics and even rural russians dont stand a chance. This issue comes from a community of just three hundred kilometers from moscow but without registration papers he wasnt allowed to work in the capital he was the perfect victim for a traffic and no money no education young and unmarried sasha drank a beer with a stranger then everything went down and the next thing he knew he was in an illegal brickyard hed been drugged and kidnapped. Sasha had been enslaved like an estimated one million other people in the Russian Federation. Yes the last of our people by was scared theyd kill me if i ran away when i arrived in the brick yard i realized there was no point trying to escape. Their vehicle there were mountains all around us yep snow shut down for the locals only know each other very well without them i see the world the flag the star the coalition as an outsider without knowledge of the area you can forget about escape us on his last missed as a chuckle up to the flag doesnt have a fixed address he sleeps at friends homes and is borderline homeless man like him are of such ideal targets for those wanting to exploit them they work without contracts and believe the promises that theyll be paid a decent wage those who realize theyll never get any money try to get away and you will be good as they escape but just end up in a different brick yard even though because then it all of the world on the edge of the bosses old know each other. They simply switch back as skate workers but the most italian is like here. They bought them after all with the money that they call travel costs so it can handle as well now that orlando is holding. The twenty five year old felt powerless like all the others who shared his fate he decided to stay where he was. In there and i was probably hoping for a better way out or that someone would help me get away i waited for a very long time maybe two months old and i really missed so though i. Was able to get in touch with the. Tenor tiva on a borrowed phone the activists working for alternative or freed him with the help of the local police. Are going to moscow headquarters are located in the apartment of alexeis parents. In his childhood bedroom. The thirty one year old has devoted his life to political activism which he sees as the jews. Stand has received a call for help from a number of slave labor of. The cooler says hes working on a farm alexei asks if he knows his location. Hes told by the man on the phone that there are two of them alexei wants him to take photos and send them to him so he can post them on the social media platforms to collect donations for their travel costs. Alexei has voltaire and other revolutionary role models on the wall standing for freedom of thought even if alexeis himself dependent on others is sixty five year old pediatrician mother supports him financially. Prudent. And basically a positive person who says he should help others i just worry about him because he doesnt have a wife or children he has nothing no income fortunately i have a pension and im still working to. Rashmi you have a im still working at sixty five thats how i manage to care for myself and support him a bit too much with your great family you know what else could i do on top of this youre not paying taxes or anything towards your pension dont intend to. End your pension you dont think about your future theyll steal it from me anyway rubbish moscow wasnt built in a day either my. Mark and i want out of democracy in america and europe also took time. Out of. Africa to whos going to steal your pension where arguing again because you dont think about your future. What are we good. I will never agree he says ive been shaped by the soviet era hes a democrat as an opposition mentality. And shes worried her sons now thirty one but internal capitalist russia is going to have a tough time without money alexei leaves moscow and heads for darkest on the russian republic on the caspian sea its one of the areas he visits most frequently in the fight against exploitation. With a population of just three million and an Unemployment Rate of more than fifteen percent douglas don has one of the smallest and weakest economies in the Russian Federation. On paper the republic is independent as regards domestic policy but he can only claim its completely aligned to russia moscow guarantees military security and in return and joins access to the oil reserves here. Alexei undesigned a tentative us representative in dug a stand out looking for slaves in a brick yard some of the victims being here for years they fear reprisals from their bosses by years under the governor ridge the victims tell us were too scared to talk. Or use sometimes they beat us or lock us up. With but when you approach us its ok. And means go do it. With the come psychologists we can talk to people like them now everything starts with a small step. Then we agree an initial meeting if theyve been at a factory for a long time they went immediately trust us streets i just heard james say situation like you just watch that we have to build up trust first before we can get them out of their. Endless fields of bricks given an idea of just how many people have to work here often against their will. The kilns are all fired with gas illegally diverting siphoned off from the oil industry unfiltered the place stinks of sulfur. He was one of them i can hardly breathe because of the smoke and you know. As you know the brick yards zakir dont dalek say can move about freely here the factories dont have extra guns the owners tend to be high ranking local officials theyre the law as result of foreman arent afraid of any consequences if i dispose of it and he says. Zakir cautiously approaches to workers but. The muzzle can we come in and show you some pictures of us whether we want to know if youve seen the people on them before this person was a cult or was i dont want to fight dont do that dont. Do you know any of these people weve had they work in brick yards to. Shoot no i dont know any of them theres a soldier had to. It shows many people are missing but theres a couple more but the will take a more thorough look around it but not through the front door like this you understand a little more in conspicuously question some of the people without getting seen theyll throw some light on all of this and there are four or five or eight yards in the area maybe one of the people youre looking full is that but i havent told everyone. Now. Many workers are former prisoners others have lost their old wives. Look theres a lot more than just you which one we cant explain it how can you live here for eighteen years and not try to escape theyre told go then and they go which. They told sit. And they sit down with c. G. This apparent lack of willpower seems to be the result of years of oppression stuck here and alexei say its a reflection of the general mindset in society those who are right at the bottom of only themselves to blame. Today the man from alternative a didnt have any luck not here. Back in moscow two thousand kilometers from the brickyard a new tower block is rising on the skyline story by storing. Most of the workers on these construction sites are Illegal Immigrants the new underclass in these mega city the people tend to come from the former soviet republics. Without work permits or registration papers they quickly fold prey to exploitation. Kuhlmann begg and his granddaughters are among the estimated one point five million Illegal Migrants in moscow alone. Will cut. The i feel like a second class human being with will and talent treated at least in my version it doesnt matter how good your qualifications are you wont find a good job to tell you the quickest cellist and its not. The sixty year old is from kyrgyzstan near the chinese border it used to be part of the soviet union today its an independent country which makes it a foreign country for comin back a confusing notion for two years ago he studied in moscow he also served in the soviet red army a year ago he came back here to help his daughter with her children he accepted a job as a cleaner he spent half a year cleaning ten hours a day for good money so he thought. Its rare for people my age to find employment which and it felt good to know that i had a job and that id be paid the next day. And thats how it wasnt first boarded. And thats when they paid me monthly. But then it started to take longer and longer to get my money is that i continued working because i thought id be more likely to get my money that way. Then by quitting what is it i want to know what is. The i dont want to. According to official statistics moskos Unemployment Rate is a mere one percent which sounds appealing for job seekers but comin back is far from an isolated case even twenty five years after the collapse of the u. S. S. R. For the former soviet citizens moscow is their city it doesnt feel like a foreign country to them. In the u. S. S. R. You just have one passport i think regardless of what ethnic group you belong to the news shows me everyone was the same one is the attack these days youre always told. We only employ our own citizens. The gov scene is it similar in kyrgyzstans its not everywhere people dont like it. But its. More than twenty Million People live in greater mosco the tough reality is tangible in order to regulate the labor market and migration an extra hurdle has been created for foreigners employers have to pay eight hundred euros in fees for every guest worker as a result migrants are now no longer officially employed illegal job market is flourishing and with the exploitation the migrants are vulnerable because theyre desperate to earn money. Yet. Its no secret that a single migrant working here in russia can take care of up to three families back home. I knew i had to do with my ph d. By the money that. They need every cent and your odds are thats how they end up as slaves they accept any job with or without a Contract Value be set you have you they dont care if its off the books. Those are perceived. That puts many migrants in a great area if you have the courage to demand their rights that would mean the precarious stamp of revealing their status as an illegal economic migrant. The care his grandfather is a brave exception. Not a bubba john mover is his attorney she specializes in labor law one day a week she works pro bono for an organization that fights for migrants rights with the support of the u. N. Common bank like many is a victim of systematic exploitation. Thats in the stars and watching my employers dont start with holding wages right away they first want to win the trust of Migrant Workers the children are nice and that unites in the plot the much like but then it begins in the third or fourth month the migrant gets paid too little but at that point they dont realize whats happening they were paid initially after all that makes them uncertain and they dont look for a new job they just continue working and listening to them ploys lollies and promises lads what mr will they replace their workers every month they dont pay them and they keep the money for themselves doing the work it out. What if ten workers who were supposed to get fifty thousand roubles each. You got enough for a cost by the end of the year youre sitting on a lot of money at whats called. The sixty year old former administrator was unwilling to accept the injustice he has suffered for being a migrant hes filed a lawsuit against his former employer with the help of his attorney his daughter has also come to support him. In court theyre confronted with a queue of people and security personnel for some a microcosm of modern russia. Conducted on the that a few outside the court and what has become of us you count sink any lower you go. Anyone wanting to bring their case of labor exploitation to court has to do so within three months both of the victims dont know this just like. If someone doesnt find out about this right away via our organization or doesnt have money to consult a lawyer then that period simply expires. On cheshire civil couples glad this time limitation serves only to protect employers bag is determined to demand his outstanding wages forty eight thousand rubles equivalent to seven hundred eighty euros the second major hurdle for claimants is the lack of precision in the laws regarding labor exploitation and slavery its just means that there are no laws that will likely be improved in the future. Quickly that would do norton but its difficult at the moment to apply the relevant sections as a standard of what it is in the states yet i have to prove in court that someone was actually employed. In your fog the truth of a hot machine. You put your name on this list every time you clean the Swimming Pool yes i signed every time. I wanted to and i need to have this letter notarized. But. My boss already signed here. Back when and this. I had to show it when i entered the building. Heres. What we can talk on here according to the testimony the general director did the cleaning himself. With then had to leave the room but the judge agreed to hear the case. Over in red square tourists or my other famous buildings to use the grandiose setting for selfies with the soviet union doesnt just have a visual legacy there is still various loopholes in the legal system due to the huge and rapid changes in russia in the early one nine hundred ninety s. Why is it so hard to deal with exploitation and slavery in russia today. The leading prosecutor an expert in labor law explains. That yes section one hundred twenty seven subsection two refers to the use a slave labor but it doesnt define slave labor route were sent to gave you know could of is a research of the general Prosecutors Academy hes been working for years on improving legislation dealing with exploitation and slavery criminal employers have little to fear in the way of repercussions the protected by the vagueness. But im sure you were led units sold a cubicle is going to tell you when you get. Every slave owner can just claim his slaves a free they choose not to leave the factory. Below to see the premier why do i say that in belarus they similarly have a section one night one that refers to the use of slave labor but it goes further the use of slave labor and other forms of exploitation you need for my exploit doubtfully you know ford explode out if we had that formulation in russia lawyers would have an effective tool for taking action should go but it was bush darn it you lot you put i would give you to sleep in. The rooms in the academy a highly reminiscent of the soviet era the veteran legal expert doesnt think the primary reason behind the exploitation is a legal one hes as its down to a fundamental problem of society. There is a kind of psychological provocation at work here you see pictures of happy rich people all over the television and internet theyre sitting on their yachts drinking champagne. That image appeals to us yeah and makes us envious and you see a lot of money due to. All wants to have an affluent and comfortable lifestyle. But in practice most of this content change that by legal means theres a line you. Options for and you there you it was morton says that thats why many people look for other options criminal options its just that Human Trafficking is a big part of. Criminality of that if you dont eat me. He also told us that expectations had to be realistic that there were forces in the country working against reforms thats why changes to the law he said would take a long time. This is another side to dagestan. And further thailand geographically and topographically a world away from the brick yards but this is also where we find the second major form of slavery in the federation farming. Alexei from the am to slavery organization. Has tried down a man forced to work as a herdsman his relatives in rural russia contacted the activist after he went missing alexei now wants to free the man and his wife. No words like say a knock some sled llama and nikolais dog suddenly on answers he tells her he has come to take her and her husband oh nikolais apparently outside bring the sheep into the shed. She and her husband the been trapped an illegal working conditions for a long time before this we worked for the same boss in a brick kiln we were told there too that we were allowed to live weve been here for eight months. Off work. So i paid wages or i was just working for food. The neighbor remained silent. Finally nikolai himself appears the thirty eight year old looks confused he doesnt seem to know what to make of his impending liberation. The couple dont own much the cheese was their only source of income theyd been selling it to the local market they want to take these ones with them and lexi didnt know nicholai had a wife until he gone here. That was finished and then. It will be off that and he didnt know about the daughter either the prospects for leaving arent looking good the owners have been alerted. Well alexei and nikolai you see them approaching nicole i believe it was the neighbor who raised the a loan shark social. Cheshire what especially. These Liberation Missions tend not to be dangerous when we free someone the owners dont get violent theyll pretend nobody had forced the victim to be there theyll say the victims are here voluntarily and are just making the whole thing out always the supper so you avoid it all stop it all. Ok first lets get the three of them and all their belongings into our car and then theyll drive off will follow them. The older clear view scrambling so that he asks us for our cruise papers and wants to know why were here. Told us. Alexei says they were notified by new cries relatives who are looking for him. There is all. The boss starts quizzing nikolai which relative is looking for you wouldnt you say someone was looking for a crime says hed tell his boss he had to go home. Then tempers flare did you think thats. The man start arguing with alexei he wants to get the boss to handle this that lamas papers he refuses and in turn wants to see identification from alexei who likewise refuses. They tell the activist to leave us alexei says hell do so with both for grammar and nikolai he also threatens to call the Police Resistance who doesnt use a lot of people. Then things get physical the most obvious is almost. Get off my property the boss shouts. Vehicle did get one corner but just because i mean we should go and you dont have any storage so the clear thats. Getting violent and then facing criminal charges makes no sense not for keeping someone who only costs fifteen thousand rubles it makes much more sense for the n a to simply find a new work. That means two hundred forty euros for a new slave. Yet the boss and his men turn on nikolai again they want to know what hes been up to. Lead them then. Nobodys keeping you here and the boss says. Alexei make sure svetlana and the baby get to leave as well the man wants alexei to leave right away but alexei tells him hes waiting for the mother and child. But the both suspect loughner wont be leaving a legacy must hear that from her personally. The boss replies out rip your head off theyre told to leave a note come back without the police. Just like. Nick when i get into the car out of view unnoticed by the camera hes going to intervenes. So i think up he tells him to get out right away. But. The men drag him and alexei out of the car and then attack on camera crew as well as. The other good. Gresham and threats get worse well shoot you like a bunch of dogs. Electing calls for the police to come he explains that three men are threatening them and have become violent. But its an uphill battle. To speak english slave owners know that they cannot be proven guilty. Its their way and against the victims thats why none of them have to fear punishment. That i set. Off an hour later the Police Arrived the officers try to calmly determine everyones details whats happening here seems to be routine for them the officers on screen equalize a series of questions about his identity hes one of the dentity and who else is in sight. Oh lord officer gets angry with the boss his friend how can he not know how and why the family came here. Hes local but even he would have known about this place he says the reason is obvious he says these people are on the fringes of society. Yes a lot alike it slops else ive talked to a lot of slave owners they always try to convince me with one argument that if they werent giving the slave any work then the slaves would lie around drunk on the ground by channel or theyre not capable of leading an independent life exists at all will get a holes i think that they might actually believe that its possible source ecological but its more a case of trying to justify it to themselves morally. Slavery is an accepted gray area in russia. The police are aware of it but the owners have nothing to fear because the victims are too scared to sue. In the end the owners will pay another trafficker twenty thousand roubles for a new herdsman. Police say he believes its hard to change this mentality. Our country has known slavery for a long time. My father comes from a village near ivanova. He can remember how khrushchev gave the collective farm workers them passports back one day. At a factory just they then started to be able to move around freely. In this mindset of exploiting people is a deeply rooted in russia china causal topics but surely the. People with hidden pasts like nickel and circle on a easy victims only know about nicole is that he once had a run in with the law but the two dont want to say how exactly they became an slaved his wife is resigned to their fate then when they think that we have to go home now its enough. Do you have relatives at home. I have a younger brother but i dont have any parents now weve got a new addition to the family. That is just how it is. A bus to take the family back to russia a bus without a valid operating permit without a tax registration the shadow economy comes full circle no papers required and no questions are asked we try to contacts from Atlanta Nikolai and the new lines to no avail. Former slaves prefer not to be reminded of the past says alex. This was the hardest of the three hundred fifty Liberation Missions hes done so far hes not very hopeful. With as long as illegal activities are more profitable than legal dealings as long as theres an Endless Supply of people from poorer regions willing to work as long as its easier to enslave people than to employ them officially as long as there are these economic reasons this slavery will continue. On this basis its hard to build a normal modern society among the tools that will offset. Capital of darkest time sakya alternative was local representative has received a call that reminds him of his early days working for the organization. It was is very own wake up call to do something against exploitation and slavery. Additional spending when i was still working for a local paper i read on facebook that and was back man had been admitted to hospital in a very sick condition we immediately went over. The man whod been working musician up at the foot of the mountains here for two years. He fell seriously ill. When his owners realized after ten days that he was close to dying they loaded him onto a transporter like a sack of potatoes and magazine they then just dumped him at a gas station on the outskirts of town he was the good of the procurements when he was later found and taken to hospital which. Was when he spotted on the ship to new planets we contacted his relatives in israel moscow and samarkand but nobody wanted to come. They all said the same thing if we come will be enslaved to just like our relatives i can send the nationals over this man showed up in hospital without papers and with broken ribs. How long have you been in dagestan and these two years i asked them to give me my money. But they refused to give me money already thing islets. I lost my passport. But now i dont have one anymore what are your fears but for some of the what you do you work in a brick yard yes. It was district point i dont know what it was hard but it didnt matter. They kick me i prefer to be dead. Whats the point of living. Zakir will be able to help this man that same evening he collects donations on social media for the mans journey home to russia. A husband and father lives in constant danger of being threatened on account of his work. And not just like. When its really dangerous one time these guys came to warn me if i didnt stop freeing people theyd blow me and my family out of bed in the me news i dont believe its been that way for five years but im still alive ones looking. Back at the court to moscow the verdict is due today in the case brought by coleman beck the kirghiz man who became a victim of exploitation. Normally the case would have dragged on for a long time his lawyer or a tells us. But when the employer heard that a western t. V. Crew wanted to film proceedings he quickly paid his debts he was willing to pay forty thousand roubles his lawyer has come to court to formally accept the ruling. We are not allowed to film the judge but are allowed to listen in as the verdict is announced. The fact that Coleman Varick won his case is the exception to the rule. But will do exploitation and slavery mean for Mainstream Society is it really all business or our concern is the culture question it doesnt matter whether its an alcoholic or a form of prison and you should treat people with respect and. Those people also have rights deserving protection and their rights are the same fundamental rights as mine there is for the committed if we as a society were to say those people dont deserve their rights it would mean that the rights of every individual are at risk. In other words these only when the rights of those at the very bottom of society is secured everyones rights protected by her sharia toys actuals the should stop the exploitation and modern slavery a growing around the world according to u. N. Estimates twenty one Million People are victims of forced labor russia is by no means the exception. Ninety sixty eight the global recession. People everywhere were protesting. Crying echoed around the world. The economy was booming but the feel that no more politicized to gondor generations of society was at a boiling point. Are one the way existence of the double. Play. Losing the fun beethoven. His work goddess fortuna. The maestro and figures. The two over the first bomb twenty. Lehman brothers ten years on a story of ambition. Mania. Control the rich lots. Of Investment Bankers caught the terrorist cells would never stop of a system that spun out of control. Over. 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