According to reports in the Russian press, the most costly expulsions correspond to the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Cuba.
MIAMI, United States. – The Federal Marshal Service (FSSP) of the Russian region of Vladimir will buy and deliver air tickets to foreigners in an irregular situation in its territory, with Cuba included among the destination countries.
The purchase, with an estimated budget between 1.1 and 1.16 million rubles, must be executed before December 20, according to local media who consulted the tender file.
The regional media Vladimirskie Novosti He specified that the contract was placed on October 2, 2025 and that the tender includes routes from Moscow to CIS countries and other destinations in Europe, Asia, Africa and the Caribbean, with Cuba included.
The report adds that the average price per ticket is around 25,000–30,000 rubles, and that the most expensive expulsions correspond to the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Cuba (around 83,000–86,000 rubles per ticket).
For its part, the local portal Chesnok reported that “the bailiffs will buy plane tickets for the expulsion of migrant workers and will pay 1.1 million rubles. The contract must be executed within the period until December 20.”
The note details that, in addition to countries of the former USSR, Türkiye, India, Vietnam, Algeria, the DR Congo, Serbia and Cuba appear as planned destinations.
An independent tender tracker sampleIn addition, two registrations under the concept “supply of banknotes for the expulsion of persons in an irregular situation” in the name of the Directorate of the FSSP in the Vladimir region, for 1,160,000 rubles and 380,000 rubles, published on October 9.
The tender in Vladimir occurs in the same week that the Russian Parliament ratified the intergovernmental agreement on military cooperation with Cuba. The Federation Council (upper house) approved it this October 8arguing that ratification “will provide the legal bases to define the objectives, areas and forms of bilateral military cooperation.”
Until now, regional reports do not specify how many Cuban citizens would be subject to future expulsions from Vladimir or how many airline seats will be contracted for each destination.
In recent months, news has emerged about Cubans expelled from Russia. Last September, it was known that the Office of the Federal Marshal Service of the Kaluga region had expelled seven Cubans at the end of August.
According to the Russian media report, the Cuban migrants had been detected in the Borovski district. After being captured, they were sanctioned in accordance with article 18.8 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Russian Federation —which punishes the violation of the entry rules or the stay regime— and his forced expulsion was ordered.
The authorities did not release the identities or further individual details of the expelled Cubans, beyond their status as violators of the immigration regime and that the expulsion decisions were executed by the Office of the Federal Marshal Service in coordination with the bodies of the Ministry of the Interior, according to the cited notes.
On the other hand, at the end of September it also emerged that a court in Volgograd (Russia) had ordered the administrative arrest for 24 hours and the expulsion from the country of a 19-year-old Cuban citizen identified as Formes Romero, four days after his arrival in Russian territory.
According to the local portal report V1.RUwhich quotes the Unified Press Service of the Courts of the Volgograd Region, the young man, who was detained on September 23 with signs of intoxication, refused to undergo a toxicological examination.
The judge in charge ordered his arrest and expulsion for consumption of narcotic or psychotropic substances without a medical prescription. For his part, at the hearing, the young man did not admit guilt, stating that he was very tired at the time of the arrest, that he had not used drugs and that he had only been in Russia for four days.
So far it has not been revealed whether the deportation has already taken place.
