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Becoming a Parent Through SurrogacyGay men face more challenges in becoming parents than any other group, both biological and financial. The good news is that there are ways to overcome many of these barriers.
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In order to have a biological child, a gay man needs a female surrogate who will carry the baby. In traditional surrogacy, the surrogate is inseminated with the man’s sperm and is the biological mother of the child. In gestational surrogacy, donor eggs from another female are fertilized with the man’s sperm in the embryology lab. The resulting embryos are then transferred to the surrogate’s uterus. This process is called in vitro fertilization, or IVF, treatment. If one or more embryos implant, she will become pregnant and will carry the baby to term. Both the egg donor and the gestational surrogate have to be prepared with fertility drugs for treatment. The gestational surrogate is not biologically related to the child she carries.
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On March 6, a girl was born in a city bus in Novosibirsk. A midwife who, by a lucky chance, ended up on the same bus, helped to take lightning-fast births. The child was born in just a few minutes, after which the ambulance took the mother and the baby to the hospital, and the crew completed the flight. The birth of a child "in the fields" is an extraordinary and exciting event. Journalist Anna Bogdanova found out the details of what happened. nine0090
On March 6, at about half past nine in the evening, bus No. 28 driver Denis Barsukov was finishing his shift. At one of the stops, a 35-year-old woman came in. The passenger sat on a single seat right behind the driver. The bus drove a few meters and stopped abruptly.
— Conductor Alina ran up to me and shouted: “We are giving birth,” Denis recalls the moment when he saw that the panic button was working. - I hear: "Let's call an ambulance!"
Denis Barsukov was about to finish his shift and go to the garage
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Denis is sure that the woman was aware of the labor that had begun in her, because, most likely, the water broke before she got into the transport. He made such conclusions because the chairs were not badly damaged.
The passenger in the next seat noticed that the woman was not feeling well and started calling the conductor. Since there were a lot of people in the cabin, the conductor could not quickly run to the front platform and decided to use an emergency call. nine0091
- I see this button, a signal for me to stop. At first I didn't understand what was happening. I thought maybe someone didn’t get off at the bus stop, started opening the doors. But it turned out to be completely different, ”recalls Denis. She runs up to me, screaming. And it's a matter of minutes. While I called an ambulance, I talked to them, Alina screams: “That's it, they gave birth.” Patted on the ass, the child began to cry. I opened the curtain a little. I look at this woman and swim, I feel bad. For the first time in my life I see this live. nine0091
Denis says that all these feelings did not allow him to remember what his mother looks like. All the more nearby, too, were screams and turmoil.
The bus in which the Siberian gave birth
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Alina Popova has been working as a conductor on bus No. 28 for three years. She told the NHS that for the past two days, her acquaintances have been calling her endlessly to find out how everything was. The event turned out to be so exciting that emotions overwhelm the girl so far. nine0091
— I was at the back of the bus. As she slipped through the crowd, the men had already moved her to the double seat next to her. When I approached, the child had already got out,” the conductor recalls.
Childbirth was lightning fast. Within a few minutes, Alina asked the driver to close the doors so as not to freeze the baby, and give her some rag to wrap the baby. The crew had a clean blanket - Alina says that the bus had recently been inspected and the blanket had just been washed.
At that moment the passengers were asked to leave the bus and promised that the tickets would be valid on the next flight of the same route. Half came out, the rest even had to be kicked out - someone even decided to shoot on video. Denis admitted that he even had to use obscene language. When everyone left, he called the ambulance a second time - they told him that the doctors were on their way.
Luckily, doctors were returning home on the same bus, including one midwife, says Alina. They immediately responded to the call for help and helped to take a quick delivery. nine0003
- They cut the umbilical cord. And when they called the ambulance for the second time, one of them herself said there: “I am such and such, the brigade is here.” And that’s it, after that the doctors came and took away both the mother and the child,” the conductor recalls.
Presumably the midwife who was on that bus left a comment on the news:
— I am the passenger who delivered the baby. My husband and I had just boarded the bus, I was glad that the front platform was completely free, although the middle one was packed. She was just about to sit down when she saw that the woman in the seat next to her had collapsed on her side. At first I didn't even understand what was going on. And then the baby's head appeared. And then I stopped thinking, my instincts kicked in. I jumped up to her and managed to pick up the child. The girl was tiny, after a few seconds she squeaked weakly. The conductor brought some kind of veil to wrap it up. Passengers around started yelling, "Is there a doctor on the bus?" Fortunately, an obstetrician-gynecologist and an ambulance paramedic were traveling with us. They made their way through the crowd of passengers, bandaged the umbilical cord, wrapped the girl in her mother's jacket. And they waited for the ambulance. The ambulance arrived quickly, 7 minutes after the birth. I still can't believe what happened. I am very glad that the girl is alive and well. Luckily, the birth was uneventful. It would be so easy for everyone to give birth. Just not on the bus. nine0141
The driver helped put the woman on a stretcher and carried her to the car. The woman in labor almost did not answer any questions, she only said that this was her fifth birth.
Alina Popova has been working on route No. 28 for three years
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— It's good that no one was confused, everyone was nearby, anything can happen. And the main thing is that the child is healthy and cried. Because at first the girl did not scream until they applauded. Then she moved her hands when she lay in the hands of the midwife, - the conductor Alina recalls the events. nine0091
Colleagues called her today and asked if she could give her number to the woman's relatives. They say they want to say thank you.
At first, the woman in labor was sitting on a single seat, when it all started, she was transferred to a double seat - next to it.
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- Well done guys, who got their bearings and accepted the child. Probably, our godson will be now, - said the representative of the carrier. - The child was born, and it's good that it happened. nine0003
On March 6, the chief doctor of the ambulance station, Alexander Balabushevich, informed the NHS that the child was in the city hospital. It was not possible to find out more detailed information about the condition of the girl - the regional Ministry of Health reminded that such information is transmitted only with the permission of the mother.
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Children give birth to children: why are mothers at 14 and 15 years old
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Society: Portrait How does a minor live with children in their arms? The correspondent of "KP" Dina Karpitskaya investigated the phenomenon
Lyuba Bessudnova gave birth at the age of 14 from a mathematics teacher. Photo: Channel "Russia 1"
To become a mother of many children at school age? It sounds almost unrealistic (we do not live in the Middle Ages). However, this is true. Shock, but according to Rosstat last year, five 17-year-old Russian women gave birth to a fifth! We decided not only to find out what kind of phenomenon in the 21st century is a “little mother”, but also how a minor lives with children in her arms.
Another shocking batch of numbers from Rosstat for 2018. nine19 children in Russia were born to 15-year-old mothers. 190 babies were born from 14-year-old girls. 34 children - from 13-year-old mothers. Four were reproduced into the world ... 12-year-old mothers! How is this possible? Schoolgirls give birth literally at their desks. Children produce children!
And each such individual case is a small human tragedy. Condemnation of others and the inability of the mother herself to support the baby. And often also broken fate, abandoned studies, abandonment of the child of the same young father. Not to mention the shock for parents of schoolgirl moms. nine0003
TO BE GIVEN BY A TEACHER
Lyuba Bessudnova gave birth at 14 from a mathematics teacher. Getting pregnant at school age is embarrassing, scary, beyond all norms and rules. Especially if you are not in a city where you can still hide and go unnoticed, but in a small village. The story of Lyuba Bessudnova quickly went beyond the boundaries of her native village of Petrovo, and then the Saratov region itself. As a result, a photo of a little girl with a baby in her arms flew around newspapers and TV. No wonder, because, as it turned out, the father of her child is a 23-year-old math teacher Oleg Mikheev . The guy at that time was already married and raised a daughter. And then, it turns out, he looked at another child - at Lyuba - as an adult woman. Walked with her in the evenings, engaged in adult affairs. But how the son was born - into the bushes! Without embarrassment, he called a little girl with a baby in her arms a “whore” and denied everything: “There was nothing! She's lying, she wants to ruin my life. " And many supported him. But the DNA test showed that he was the father of the newborn Denis.
Lyuba Bessudnova became a mother at the age of 14. Next to her is a young grandmother Marina (32 years old). Now the boy is already 7 years old, and no one knows where the family lives, they left in an unknown direction. Photo: Channel "Russia 1"
However, this is not enough. It turned out that the son of the director of school Igor Kolesnikov was also a contender for the title of the father of Lyuba's child. And, according to the girl, he was her first boyfriend. Kolesnikov's mother Tatyana Gorban, of course, denied everything and accused Lyuba of all mortal sins. In general, she stated that all this was conceived in order to remove her from the post of headmaster. That's the rustic passion.
Mathematics teacher Oleg Mikheev. Photo: Channel "Russia 1"
Naturally, a criminal case was opened against both Mikheev and Kolesnikov. Then everything developed according to a scenario that is possible only in our mother Russia. The unfortunate father admitted his guilt. And the investigation was instructed to find out - what if Lyuba Bessudnova at the age of 13 (at the time of conception) was already sexually mature and ready for intimate relationships? And in addition to the shame and reproaches from all the villagers, the little girl also had to undergo a humiliating examination. In Saratov, a whole council of doctors, almost under a microscope, studied what had grown, what had not grown in her as an adult woman, took a blood test for hormones and other things. A young grandmother (only 32 years old) Marina Agibailova said that upon returning from the city, Lyuba sobbed. And father Mikheev walked around the village with his head held high, never asking how his son was, in fact, there. It's amazing how a little mother had the strength to endure all this? nine0003
Both womanizers were punished. Mikheev was imprisoned for 4 years, and Kolesnikov for 3.
I contacted the village of Petrovo.
Applicant for the role of father number two - the son of the school director Igor Kolesnikov. Photo: Channel "Russia 1"
- Oh, what, you have nothing to do but remember the old, - one of the residents of the village (an employee of state bodies) grumbled displeasedly into the phone. - Luba's family has left here. No, not because they were not given life here. Nobody touched them. And everyone left, like somewhere in the Krasnodar Territory. Nobody knows anything about them, even the pages have been removed from social networks, they have had enough of notoriety. nine0003
- What about Kolesnikov and Mikheev?
- Done. Mikheev's wife left, could not stand the shame. Now he has moved to Atkarsk (regional center), got along with some woman. I don’t know what he works for, but definitely not at school. Well, Kolesnikov drove off to Moscow somewhere. His mother is no longer the principal of the school. That's the whole story.
“I WAS GOT MARRIED AT 14”
Mariam is from Dagestan. She is 29. She has been living in Moscow for the last year and a half - she huddles somewhere on the outskirts in a hostel apartment stuffed with migrants, she sells vegetables in the market. Her phone was passed from hand to hand by her friends. She - one of the figurants of those very figures of Rosstat - became a large family at the age of 18. And she did not want to communicate with a journalist in any way. With some difficulty, I managed to persuade her to at least make a phone call. nine0003
- I had to move to Moscow from my native village. There was no life there, although this is not life either ... My father and mother had 7 children in the family. They lived very poorly. As soon as my period started and I put on a scarf, dad said - it's time to get married, stop feeding you. Mom cried, asked me to wait at least until my 16th birthday. But who listened to her ... So at the age of 14 I became a wife and moved to live in my husband's house, in another village. It was 2005. Of course, there was no registry office, everyone went to the mosque. I gave birth to my son after 9months. After another 9 - a daughter, then after 2 years - another son. That is, by the time I came of age, I already had three children.
My husband is 10 years older, at first we lived normally, I even graduated from school as an external student. And then there was no work in the village at all, and the husband wandered to work in the city. I often stayed at home alone. Well, the guy from the next street fell in love, followed me. As a result, I cheated on my husband ... He promised to marry, persuaded me to run away. I left the children, we moved to Makhachkala, I hid in his brother's apartment. And then he left me, his parents made me. Moreover, they spread gossip about me around the village that I myself persuaded the poor boy to run away with him. I couldn't return home. I already wanted to settle scores with life, if not for my girlfriends. They persuaded me to move to Moscow. Recently I found my eldest son on Vkontakte, wrote to him, asked for forgiveness. He said he would grow up and take me home. Soon he will be 14. I love my children very much. nine0003
- Do many people in Dagestan give birth so early?
- Not anymore, everyone has become smarter, and life is somehow better. From the age of 16 it is allowed to get married, some of them start families in the villages. It is not so in cities, people are more civilized there, parents want to teach their daughters, they send them to institutes. They get married at the age of 18-19. Since I had - do not do it, it's wrong.
ROMEO AND JULIET FROM THE ORPHANAGE
A considerable number of girls-mothers from the data of Rosstat are pupils of orphanages. And they are the most difficult. There is no support from relatives, because there are no relatives. Their whole life is government walls. AT 9In 9% of cases, a child of a minor orphanage becomes an orphan himself. She has no guardians, and the state takes the baby right after the maternity hospital, sending it to the Baby House. Everybody. Such a terrible conveyor.
Oleg and Polina met in an orphanage. They became parents at 15. They have a real family. Photo: Personal archive
But miracles happen in this system. In 2015, just before the New Year, the story of Romeo and Juliet from the orphanage Safonovo (Smolensk region) flew around Russia. Oleg and Polina are a couple in love, they are 15 and they were about to have a baby. At first, the staff of the boarding school had a shock - still, such an emergency. And then everyone began to shed tears, seeing what a touching relationship the guys had. For orphans, finding a loved one is the most important thing in life. But they didn't have anything good ahead of them. There is no legal fork to leave a newborn with mom. Tragedy awaited all three. There was only one way out - to find a guardian family ready to immediately adopt Polina, Oleg, and their baby. And such a crazy (in the good sense of the word) was found. Psychologist, mother of seven children and grandmother at that time of four grandchildren Julia Zhemchuzhnikova . “Friends, I am starting the adoption process,” she wrote on her page on the social network. - The question is very hot. The baby will appear at Christmas, and only a miracle will not separate him from his mother.
Psychologist Yulia Zhemchuzhnikova took a couple of orphans from an orphanage under her care. A couple in every sense - very soon they made her a grandmother. Photo: Personal archive
And Yulia managed to do the incredible - in two New Year's Eve weeks (!) To collect all the documents and arrange guardianship. On Christmas Eve a girl Sofia was born. nine0003
- I have been living in a village in the Kaluga region for a long time. We have our own house, farm, cow. Everything you need for a family with a baby. We brought all three of us here, - recalls Zhemchuzhnikova . - And, frankly, 2016 was a very difficult year. And it was so difficult for everyone to get along, Polina and Oleg had difficulty getting used to a different life (drank, ran away from home, complained). Moreover, endless checks came to us, looking for flaws, threatening to take the children away…
To be honest, I survived all this only thanks to the support of many people. Olga Sinyaeva (director), Elena Zhitomirskaya (psychologist), the Our Children Foundation and their psychologist Uliana Sorokina, Alexander Gezalov from the Donskoy Monastery, Alexei Stepanov . .. If not for all of them, we would simply not have survived and that's it. nine0003
Now Polina and Oleg live separately with their little family. They are 18, Sophia is three years old.
- That year was enough for them to get on their feet and soak up the experience of life in normal, family conditions. They are wonderful parents, wise, they will give odds to many 40-year-olds. Sometimes they bring my granddaughter to me. So, I would venture to say that the point is not in young parents, but in the right grandmothers, - says Yulia.
"WHICH FATHER IS THERE? NONE"
There are a lot of stories. There are also criminal ones. Literally at the beginning of August 2019Volgodonsk blew up - a 16-year-old girl received a year in prison. Right in the toilet of the hospital, where she lay down with complaints about her stomach, she gave birth to a child, hid it in a bag and took it to the trash. The corpse of the baby was found, the mother too. It turns out that no one knew about the girl’s pregnancy, neither the parents nor the doctors in this very hospital even understood (how?!). Now she is in jail. How will he live on when he comes out and realizes everything?
Or Sasha Gladkovskaya from the Vladimir region. She gave birth at the age of 15 (this was in 2012). The schoolgirl's mother insisted on an abortion, Sasha did not agree. When the son was born, life in the family went wrong. And when the boy was 2 years old, the grandmother almost deprived her daughter of parental rights. But now everything has settled down. nine0003
A 14-year-old girl Nastya from the Nizhny Novgorod region made her mother Anastasia Knyazkova the youngest grandmother in Russia. Granny at that time was only 29. Now they are raising little Nikitka. They tell all their friends and acquaintances that they are very happy.
At one of the youth forums, I accidentally stumbled upon the revelations of a "little" mother. Not even her story itself is interesting, but the questions that her peers asked her.
“I got pregnant just when I was 14. Most of all I was afraid of what my mother would say. Even though we are friends. And my mother just hugged me and said: "Everything will be fine." I immediately felt better. Daughter is now 9months, I'm 16. I'm homeschooled. I had to change school ... The child takes about 22 hours out of a day. In the evenings, my mother lets me go out with my friends. I have two left, the most faithful. Well, anyway."
- Were you very ashamed when your belly started to grow?
- Ashamed and disgusting, as if I were a leper. I cried. She hardly went outside. Seeing all this, my mother decided that we would all move in together with my grandmother. We rent our apartment, we need money...
- Didn't you know about condoms?
- Of course, I know, but I didn't think that it's so easy to get pregnant. My boyfriend and I met for six months, there were only kisses. And then he asked me about it. I loved him very much. Since he asks why not.
- Where is he now?
- Lives next door, he's 18. I told him about my pregnancy on snapchat. He thought I was joking. When he found out that he didn't, he blocked me everywhere. Well, okay, my mother and I decided not to spoil his life, we will grow ourselves. And which one is his father? Now I understand that none. nine0003
- Does it hurt to give birth?
- Yes.
“I DECIDED THAT I NEED A SON”
Surprisingly, there are girls who give birth at such a young age quite consciously.
- I was 16, I finished school and for some reason firmly decided that I needed a son, - tells his story Masha Kholodnaya . - How, why, it can not be explained by ordinary logic. Perhaps it was a desire to transfer my love to someone small, or maybe I was infected by the example of my friend, who was a year older than me and gave birth to a daughter, Diana, at the age of 17. I often came to visit her, nursed and, apparently, nursed ... In September 19In 96, I went to the Sputnik youth camp. Mom let me go alone, because I was very independent, and she trusted me. So, Sochi, September, velvet time, I came to the disco and met him: a nice fair guy with blue eyes. It immediately formed in my head: an excellent biological father. October, school has begun, but I feel sick, I eat like an elephant. I did the test - get, sign, two strips. When my mother found out, she was shocked. My father is an old school, and my mother was very afraid that my pregnancy would kill him. nine0003
In general, the struggle began, with hand-wringing, tantrums and threats. And the young father, having learned, merged immediately, he was 16 and the prospect of coming to Moscow and raising a snotty baby did not smile. I never saw him again. Mom wanted me to get rid of the "misunderstanding", she was sure that this would ruin my life. I disagreed and stubbornly stood my ground. Because of my mother's fears, I had to turn out like a snake and get married. (The guy loved me wildly and was delighted to be together like that). I did not want this wedding and made my husband unhappy, because I only needed a son, and not that's all. By the way, dad immediately realized that I didn’t want to get married, and asked why all this theater, they would have raised it themselves. We still had to get permission for the wedding, yes, yes, I was 16, and my mother had already ordered a banquet, they sewed a dress for me, how could I already turn back? Exactly one year later we divorced. nine0003
Masha Kholodnaya with her son Photo: VKontakte
The whole first year, I studied, got fat, demanded strawberries in December and easily passed the exams. I firmly decided that everything would work out for the best. gave birth. My son and I were always on the same wavelength, he slept perfectly (sleepless nights at 18 are erased like an eraser). I studied, suffered, cried, my personal life did not stick, but Denis was my ray. He went early, as early as 9 months old, was a thunderstorm in kindergarten, then at school. I was constantly called to talk about his behavior, but I knew that he was my love, and I always spoke with him on an equal footing, without lisping. At that time, my grandmother helped me a lot, she came to the sessions, and later my mother joined in, who forever remained my guardian angel. My experience is very different, but I do not regret a second. nine0003
Now my son is 22, he is a photographer, he is looking for his way and breaks his forehead on his mistakes, he is learning to live, but we are always in touch. I learned a lot from him, and if you asked me if I would repeat it all from the very beginning, then yes. By the way, many years later, when Denis turned 12, I found Jan (biological father) on social networks and invited him to communicate with Denis, now they are in a relationship. By the way, Jan has no other children, and he is already almost forty.
Masha Kholodnaya with children Photo: Personal archive
Masha is 38. Now she is married again and has a daughter.
TEACHER'S OPINION
"Teenagers have become smarter - not like in the 90s"
- Schoolgirls began to give birth en masse around the 90s. Dashing years, sexual revolution. I'll tell you a secret, then even prostitution among teenagers was not uncommon, - says a teacher with 40 years of experience from one of the Moscow suburban schools Olga Igorevna D . - And in my lesson one day a girl almost gave birth, she is plump, and then she got better. My stomach hurt, they called an ambulance, and there ... Or the son of one of my students, who gave birth at 15, now he is studying with me, he went to 9th class. Great guy. Recently, there was also a story, the parents of a 10-grader came running: "Trouble, the fifth month of pregnancy." I told them: "Rejoice that it's not death, not a crime, not drugs." Honestly, the pregnancy of a schoolgirl is certainly an extraordinary event, but not nonsense. I'm generally okay with this. Yes, this is a tragedy for the family, but an even greater tragedy can happen if the parents misbehave. Here the little mother must be supported, not condemned. The girl is transferred to home schooling, and the newborn is often presented as a younger brother or sister ... But now is not 90, there is a downward trend in early motherhood. Children have become smarter, they know what condoms and birth control pills are. Well, their parents are no longer shy about talking to their children about sex.
- Do you want to say that fewer babies are born not because they do not communicate with boys, but because they have learned how to protect themselves?
- Yes, exactly. And so, according to my observations, now many girls begin to live a sexual life from the 7th grade. Of course, they don't realize anything, it's like a game for them. Some began, others - looking at them. At the same time, these are children at home who still watch cartoons! Plus, everything is on the internet. nine0003
- What should the parents of such sexually early children do?
- One piece of advice for all times - do not lose contact with your child. Be his best friend and adviser. I'm not saying that becoming a mother at 16 is a disaster. The trouble is, if the girl has no one to share with, and she will do stupid things.
- Do young parents get families?
- With those fathers from whom they gave birth - no. I haven't seen this. And even if they get married, they quickly get divorced. In such families, after all, the children are all three, and mom, and dad, and their child. Then, years later, the girls grow up and get married again, give birth again, everything usually ends normally. nine0003
By the way, Russia is the leader in the number of abortions. According to official statistics, they are made in the country 1.7 million a year. And every fifth - minors. If girls did not have abortions, there would be 3-4 times more children from young mothers.
EXPERT OPINION
Director of the Institute of Demography of the Higher School of Economics Anatoly Vishnevsky : Once upon a time there were early marriages all over Russia, now - mainly in the Caucasus
- I would like to think that this is some kind of Rosstat mistake (data that five 17-year-old mothers in the country already have 5 children each - rev. ) or a typo? Because it's hard to imagine! But as for the rest of the figures, they are quite real and even lower than last year. In such a large country as ours, the number of underage mothers is small.
- Who and where gives birth at 14 and 15 years old? Probably somewhere in the Caucasus?
- Yes, most of these cases were recorded in the North Caucasus. It's not that unusual there. And early marriages are formalized according to religious rules. Somewhere in a mountain village how to track who and what time enters into a relationship? A child was born and was born . .. But once in all of Russia there were very early marriages, this was not considered something shameful. And he did not hide, even in an intelligent, educated environment. The state and the church, to the best of their ability, fought against such phenomena, as a result, for 300 years they managed to win. But not to the end. nine0003
BTW
How are Khabib and Valya from Kapotny doing?
Valya Isaeva and Khabib Patakhonov are the most famous young family. Valya gave birth at 11, being a third-grader. Photo: Anatoly BELYASOV
The most famous young father remains the Tajik Khabib - the husband of the most famous little mother Valya Isaeva from Moscow's Kapotnya. In 2005, the girl gave birth at the age of 11. The chosen one was then 17, he sold cakes in a nearby stall and rented a room from Valya's grandmother. "Romeo and Juliet from Kapotny" - this is how the story was dubbed in the media. A criminal case was opened against the Tajik, but the court did not put him in jail, they gave him a suspended sentence. After 6 years, Valya and Khabib got married. Then they gave birth to two more children. nine0003
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