Saltanat and her husband had just bought return tickets from Moscow to Dubai. But they don’t want to return.
The couple, who have both Tajik and Russian citizenship, see the United Arab Emirates as a transit country at the start of a long journey that they hope will take them to the United States via Mexico.
“We originally wanted to fly to Mexico from Istanbul, but we read on Telegram that Turkish Airlines is not allowing people from Russia and other former Soviet countries to board planes to Latin America, so we changed the plan,” said Saltanat who asked that her last name not be…
