In the last two months in Turkey, for unknown reasons, the appearance of news about the injuries and deaths of Russian tourists has sharply increased.

Troubles began at the end of July. 36-year-old Oksana Astafieva, where she was vacationing with her husband. The probable cause of death was an asthma attack. Then 47-year-old Tatyana Logvinova did not return home from vacation. The woman died in a Turkish hotel from a heart attack.

On the same day, Turkish media disseminated information about the death of a tourist from Russia, Alexei Nikitin. He fell from the 4th floor of a hotel in the resort of Side.

On September 22, 31-year-old Russian citizen Dmitry Makarov choked on water and drowned while swimming in a hotel pool in the Side area. The Russian Consulate General in Antalya confirmed his death.

Today, 12 Russian tourists were injured in an accident in Antalya: the driver of one of Vehicle lost control, as a result of which he rammed a bus with vacationers, radio station “Moscow Speaks” reports. According to preliminary data, the alleged culprit of the accident died.

Even without taking into account the many hundreds of Russians who fell ill with the Coxsackie virus, the number of dead and wounded is in the dozens, which no longer fits into the idea of ​​“isolated cases.”

IN Dominican Republic a Russian tourist, a native of Chelyabinsk region, who leaned out of the car window in only her swimsuit shorts. The girl reportedly ran head first into a roadside sign at speed. This moment was caught on video.

The tragedy happened on October 10 on the highway leading to Punta Cana airport. The girl, along with her companion who was driving, was swaggering in the car, showing her magnificent breasts to the camera. The KiaPicanto was driven by Ukrainian Ivanna Boyrachuk.


At moments, the tourist leaned out of the window up to her waist, posed and did not watch the road. At the moment when she is simply blown away from the car window, the recording ends. It is not clear from the video what the deceased encountered. Most likely it was a roadside sign. Although some sources write that it was a bus.

The passport details of the deceased appeared on Facebook - Natalya Borisovna Borodina, 35 years old. The entry is accompanied by a request to report it Additional information. The woman was taken to the hospital, but doctors were unable to save her due to the very serious injuries she received.

Internet users write that the girl’s relatives are aware of what happened.


The hospital reports that death was due to severe traumatic brain injury.

Tourists from the Russian Federation love to relax on a grand scale, with the obligatory All Inclusive, sea, sun and all services for 5 points, and to make it cheaper. It is because of this that Turkey was, is and will be one of the most popular and budget holiday destinations.

However, it is in Turkey that problems constantly arise: the Coxsackie virus, earthquakes, mass poisonings, deceiving tour operators, and even hotels where cockroaches run around the buffets, and staff swear at guests at the reception desk.

The high mortality rate of Russian tourists in Turkey is also an open and timely question. Timely because the “high season” is now in full swing, and millions of Russians are vacationing in hot resorts.

Thus, over the past month there have been several fatalities involving vacationers in Turkey. Some time ago, the Turkish province of Cappadocia collapsed balloon with tourists. As a result of the fall, one person died and 20 were injured. Also, recently the media reported that Russian tourist Andrei Ogorodnikov was found dead in Antalya. IN this moment All the circumstances of the man's death are being clarified.

At the end of August, the website of the Zvezda TV channel reported that a 6-year-old child who was hit by a driver on a zebra crossing died in Turkey, and about the death of a tourist who died after falling from a hotel balcony.

In total, according to rough statistics, at least 10 Russians die per month in Turkey.

The director of the association of tour operators in the field of outbound tourism, Turpomosch, Alexander Osaulenko, explained to the website of the Zvezda TV channel why Russian tourists are dying at Turkish resorts:

“A large number of deaths occur for two reasons. First: significantly more Russians travel to Turkey than to other destinations. Secondly, there, with an all-inclusive system, every person literally allows himself to have a blast. People simply lose their edge when they are not in their environment. We must remember that liters of free alcohol corrupt psychologically, which is why many deaths occur,” states Osaulenko.

Indeed, due to the lack of a sense of human “edge,” situations on vacation often take a bad turn.

Sources at the Russian Embassy in Turkey also informed the website of the Zvezda TV channel about conflict cases that occur in the resorts due to the notorious lack of sense of proportion.

“Yes, there really are a lot of different cases happening. Some people get into fights, others get into drunken conflicts with the police, and there are deaths. We are constantly working on this,” the source said.

The website of the Zvezda TV channel contacted the chairman of the Russian Society of Antalya, Marina Sorokina, who also noted the problems of Russian tourists with alcohol.

“Regarding deaths due to alcohol... yes, these happen, it’s summer, it’s hot, if you drink in unlimited quantities, you can get a stroke. Neither the Germans nor the British have such problems. But there are also advantages now, the “traffic situation” is leveling out, the state provides two guides for trips and more professional drivers for excursions,” says Sorokina.

Independent expert on tourism and resorts Tatyana Demeneva expressed her opinion to the website of the Zvezda TV channel about why mortality is increasing every year in hot Turkish resorts.

“It all depends on the ratio of tourists. Not to say that Turkey is a bad resort; rather, on the contrary, the price-quality ratio is pleasing. But it is important to understand that the more tourists, the more deaths. The situation is the same in Thailand and in other countries where we have the largest number of vacationers,” the expert said.

At the moment, employees of the two main departments for monitoring various cases with tourists - Rostourism and Rospotrebnadzor - are paying increased attention to Turkish resorts. The reason for this is the Coxsackie virus, which has already sickened 50 children in Surgut, and the many complaints received by departments about this.

A Russian citizen, a resident of Rostov-on-Don, is awaiting trial in Vietnam Maria Dapirka. We are already talking about the most difficult situation in which a girl found herself accused of transporting a large quantity of drugs. According to Vietnamese laws, the girl faces the death penalty, which was scheduled for last days August.

Drug courier or victim of a setup?

Let us remind you that exactly three years ago, 28-year-old (at that time) Maria Dapirka was detained at the airport in the Vietnamese city of Ho Chi Minh City. Customs officers found 2.78 kg of cocaine in her bag. The girl herself claims that she is not guilty of transporting a large shipment of drugs, but that she was set up by her boyfriend, a young man originally from Nigeria. They met at one of the resorts in Thailand, where Dapirka worked as a guide for more than a year. The man introduced himself as a football player, a relationship began, and then he asked the girl to transport a bag, the contents of which, according to her, the Russian woman had no idea about.

The laws in Vietnam are strict. Transporting such a consignment of drugs clearly carries the death penalty. However, relatives still have hope that Maria, at least, will not be executed. Three years have passed, during which the young Rostovite has been in a Vietnamese prison.

On August 30, 2017, a court hearing in Ho Chi Minh City was scheduled to take place, at which the Russian woman was awaiting sentencing. However, a little later the Consul General Russian Federation Alexey Popov reported that the case was sent for further investigation. The girl’s Vietnamese lawyer wrote a statement about this. Firstly, the case materials, as it turned out, do not contain accurate data on the amount of cocaine that was transported in Maria’s things, and secondly, there is no evidence indicating that the girl was aware of the drug shipment being transported in her things.

Maria Dapirka's relatives and strangers who sympathize with her consider her to be a victim of the Nigerian drug mafia. It belonged to her Chib Eze- girl's boyfriend. True, he seemed to her Nick. It is known that the Nigerian drug mafia has long specialized in “set-ups” involving girls. If you are lucky, the girls manage to transport the dangerous cargo, but if not, the mafia immediately “ties up the loose ends”, and the unfortunate ladies are left to await trial on charges of drug transportation.

Brother of Maria Dapirka Vadim Dapirka says that this is not the first time that his sister’s trial has been postponed. The verdict was expected back in March of this year, but then the investigation into the case was delayed again. All this time, Maria is in the most terrible state and does not know what to expect. But even in such a situation, the girl, according to her brother, does not lose her composure and tries to benefit even from being in the cell - she does yoga and needlework. A very serious disadvantage is that relatives and friends are not allowed to call or meet with Maria - only lawyers and consulate representatives can communicate with her.

Asia is the most dangerous place for drug dealers

It is known that in the countries of Eastern and South-East Asia There are very strict laws against drug dealers. For a long time, drug addiction has been a terrible problem for countries in the Asia-Pacific region. One can recall the famous Opium Wars in China in the 19th century, the “golden triangle” at the junction of the borders of Thailand, Laos and Myanmar, which has long been considered the main epicenter of heroin distribution. For a number of peoples of mountainous Indochina, the cultivation of opium poppy is a traditional activity. Now even American intelligence agencies are involved in projects to “retrain” peasants from national minorities in Myanmar and Thailand to grow other types of crops, for example, tea.

They deal very harshly with drug traffickers in the Philippines, whose president Rodrigo Duterte has been repeatedly accused by human rights activists of organizing extrajudicial killings of drug dealers and even ordinary drug addicts. In Vietnam, Thailand, China, and Singapore there are no extrajudicial killings, but court sentences here are very harsh. Thus, at the end of 2009, a British citizen was executed in China Akmal Sheikh, who was accused of transporting 4 kilograms of heroin. The sheikh waited for his fate for two years and was nevertheless executed by injecting poison. Neither the appeals of the British leadership, nor the requests of relatives and friends, nor the statements of the international community helped. For Chinese justice, the fight against the drug mafia is a matter of principle.

Are Russians waiting for “ special favor"in Vietnam?

Vietnam also remains among the world leaders in the number of death sentences imposed in the country. Between August 6, 2013 and June 30, 2016, 426 people were executed in the Socialist Republic of Vietnam. The death penalty is applied for a very impressive list of crimes, ranging from murder to economic crimes and even crimes against family and marriage. In total, Vietnamese legislation until recently provided for the death penalty for 29 types of crimes. The list of “deadly” crimes includes drug smuggling.

Transporting cocaine or heroin is punishable in Vietnam by either twenty years' imprisonment, life imprisonment, or the death penalty. Moreover, the nature of the sentence is left to the discretion of the court. True, in 2015, changes were made to the Criminal Code of Vietnam, which affected a number of articles for which the death penalty was previously imposed. These include possession and purchase of drugs. However, it is still unclear how the situation will develop with Maria Dapirka, who was detained even before the adoption of changes to the Criminal Code of Vietnam.

However, there remains hope that Vietnam, which has always had good relations with Russia, will show leniency towards the Russian citizen. For example, in neighboring China they are also trying not to sentence Russians to death. Russia also has a special relationship with Vietnam, especially since many Vietnamese perceive Russians differently from citizens of the United States and Western countries. And Maria is not a seasoned criminal or drug dealer, but a naive young woman who fell for the bait of her lover, a swindler.

By the way, at the beginning of 2017, another young Russian, 26-year-old Alexander Savin, who was also accused of transporting a large quantity of cocaine, was sentenced to 18 years in prison. He also claimed that he was framed, but the Vietnamese court did not believe this version. However, they did not sentence the Russian to death - they limited themselves to 18 years in prison. Considering that the attitude towards women is more lenient, we can assume a shorter sentence for Maria Dapirca.

As the lawyer told the Free Press Vladimir Postanyuk, The Criminal Code of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam provides for very harsh penalties for drug trafficking and, especially, for smuggling of narcotic substances. P. b part 4 art. 194 of the Criminal Code of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam states that illegal possession, transportation (carriage), trade or acquisition of heroin or cocaine weighing 100 grams or more is punishable by imprisonment for a term of 20 years, life imprisonment or the death penalty. In Vietnam, the death penalty was carried out by execution, and only in 2011 the execution was replaced by lethal injection.

“SP”: — What do sanctions for drug trafficking crimes in Vietnam depend on?

— As a rule, sanctions mainly depend on the type of drug crime and the mass of the narcotic substance itself. For example, the average sentence for growing drugs is 6 months. up to 3 years of imprisonment, with aggravating circumstances 3-7 years; for manufacturing - from 2 to 7 years, with aggravating circumstances - from 7 to 15 years of imprisonment. For the storage, sale, transportation and purchase of drugs in this country, the sanctions are the most severe: depending on the type of drug, as well as its weight, the punishment is imprisonment for a term of 7-20 years, life imprisonment or the capital punishment - the death penalty .

“SP”: — That is, the girl has a chance to replace the death penalty with another type of punishment?

— As we see, the sanction in this legal norm is alternative, which implies the choice of one type of punishment from several. Thus, specifically in our case, there is a possibility that the girl will avoid the death penalty, but in any case she will be forced to serve a sentence of imprisonment - either twenty years or life imprisonment. The court's verdict will largely depend on clarification of the factual circumstances of the case and evidence of the fact that the girl acted without intent, and moreover, was completely unaware of what was happening.

“SP”: — Is the detention of Maria Dapirka in Vietnam the only example of the arrest of Russians in Southeast Asian countries with large quantities of drugs? Or were there similar examples? How did the criminal cases against other Russians end?

— Unfortunately, there are many examples of bringing Russian citizens to criminal liability for drug crimes in other countries. For example, in 2015 in Thailand, a Russian citizen Diana Batishcheva became a victim of Nigerian drug traffickers. However, in a Thai court she managed to prove that she did not know about the drugs stored in her belongings and in 2016 she was released. At least seven Russians have been convicted in drug-related cases in China. It should be noted that this year, in Bali, a citizen of the Russian Federation Roman Kalashnikov managed to avoid the death penalty, but he will still have to serve a sentence of imprisonment. As we see, the practice of bringing criminal liability for crimes in the field of use and smuggling of narcotic substances in most countries is not particularly positive and a foreign citizen (including a citizen of the Russian Federation) is in no way protected from possible imprisonment or even the death penalty. Therefore, you should always remember the price that you will have to pay for committing this type of crime and be extremely careful, especially when traveling.

For hotel residents popular resort Hurghada in Egypt was attacked with a knife, two Ukrainian tourists were killed. This attack was reported Egyptian Ministry of Internal Affairs on Facebook at about five o'clock on Friday, July 14th. Later this information was denied, saying that it was not Ukrainians who died, but Germans.

Four more tourists were injured. The attacker's motive is unknown, he is detained and is giving evidence.

Information about the nationalities of the dead and wounded is contradictory and changed throughout the day.

All the details of the attack in Hurghada:

Three versions of the reasons for the attack are considered - a terrorist attack, a domestic quarrel and the mental illness of the attacker.

According to the first version of the media, he is an ISIS member, speaks German and communicated with foreigners before the attack.

According to the second, his attack could have been the result of a domestic quarrel, in which two women allegedly participated - from Egypt and Ukraine. After her, the husband of the offended Egyptian woman attacked the offender and her friends with a knife.

A third possibility is that the attacker suffered from mental illness and did not realize what he was doing.

On the morning of July 15, the Egyptian media wrote the name of the attacker on the tourists in Hurghada - this is 28-year-old Abderrahman Shaaban Abderrahman Badawi. According to local media, the perpetrator professed the ideology of ISIS and may belong to them. During interrogation, he stated that he “lived according to Sharia law.”

As of 21:20, it was confirmed that two of the wounded were citizens of Armenia.

- Fresh data from the Egyptian authorities: the two dead tourists are not Ukrainians, as previously reported, but Germans. And two of the four victims are citizens of the Czech Republic.

According to eyewitnesses, the attacker appeared to be 25 years old and tall. After the attack, he called someone on his mobile phone and asked to pick him up. After that, he entered the sea and swam, but the police on the boat prevented him from moving away from the shore; he returned to the beach, where he was detained by hotel security guards.

He chose foreigners as his target. “Get away from me, I don’t need Egyptians, I’m not looking for you,” one of the vacationers quoted the attacker.

The Ambassador of Ukraine to Egypt Gennady Latiy did not confirm the deaths of Ukrainians in Egypt. “According to our information, two people died. According to our information, these could be citizens of either Germany or Armenia,” he said.

Also, according to him, a woman, Elena Mikhailenko, who was born in Ukraine but is a citizen of the Russian Federation, was wounded.

And the terrorist attack, the ambassador noted, was carried out by three people, and in two hotels - Zahabia and Sunny Days El Palacio.

Photo of the hotel where the tragedy occurred:

Sunny Days El Palacio hotel in Hurghada, where tourists were attacked (photo: Diaa Elhadidi on Facebook)

Al-Watan newspaper writes that the attacker randomly stabbed tourists nearby.

According to Ahl Masr, the perpetrator suffers from mental illness.

Judging by the photo, the attack took place at the four-star Sunny Days El Palacio hotel.

Killer from Hurghada

Scary photos are already online:

Photos from the scene of the attack in Hurghada appeared on Twitter

Egyptian hotel attack (Daily Mirror)

As of the evening of July 14, it was reported that among the wounded were one Russian woman, one Polish woman and two Serbs. The Russian woman has several stab wounds, but her life is not in danger. According to the Consul General of the Russian Federation, this woman has Ukrainian and Russian citizenship.

The Egyptian Ministry of Internal Affairs reported that the attacker sailed to the hotel from a nearby public beach. According to the AP, he was arrested immediately after the attack.

The injured tourists were taken to a local hospital.

Literally on the eve of the tragedy, a recommendation from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine was issued to citizens and India in connection with security threats in these countries.

Also on the morning of July 14, a security checkpoint was attacked in Cairo, killing five Egyptian police officers.