Last year only six visas were issued to Russian-Uruguayans, compared with nine in 2019. Many seem happy to stay put
The Bochkariovs live on the outskirts of San Javier, a town of 1,700 people on the border with Argentina. It has been a “Russian colony” since 1913 when 300 families moved there in search of religious freedom.
Such old-fashioned piety has piqued interest back in Russia. In 2006 Vladimir Putin, Russia’s president, started a programme which would pay those with Russian heritage to move back. In 2019 the Russian media announced that eight Old Believers living in Brazil and the United States had become naturalised Russian citizens. Around 3,000 “compatriots” worldwide had applied for resettlement in the first nine months of 2019.
In San Javier few seem to have taken up the offer. Last year six visas were issued to Uruguayans, compared with nine in 2019. Leo Lorduguin, a 21-year-old, hardly knows of anyone who has moved. He is proud of his Russian heritage, but is also happy to be Uruguayan, pointing to the country’s security and democracy.
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