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Russian citizens ready to go to Japan as volunteers
TOKYO, March 20 (Itar-Tass) - The Russian embassy in Tokyo receives
calls from Russian citizens who are ready to go to Japan as volunteers to participate in rescue and restoration work. Some ask how to transfer money to quake and tsunami victims, Itar-Tass learnt on Sunday from head of the consular department of the Russian embassy Sergei Kastornov.
"There were such calls from members of the Russian diaspora in Japan as well as from Russia," the diplomat said. "People are ready to work as volunteer loaders, to participate in clearing debris in the Miyagi prefecture, the hardest hit by tsunamis. One Russian said that he knows Japanese and can help Russian rescuers, working in Miyagi, clearing ruins in the city of Ishinomaki.
"On the first days," the consular chief reported, "we were flooded
with phone calls with requests for urgent evacuation. However, a reverse flow has formed now. People want to come to help Japanese and ask how this work can be organised."
Japanese authorities receive now only organised groups of professional rescuers from foreign countries. Incidentally, over 150 specialists of the Russian Ministry for Emergencies work in Japan.
Kastornov said that some Russians ask by phone how to transfer money in assistance to victims. "We tell them numbers of accounts, opened for this purpose and call on them to be cautious. The thing is that swindlers opened their own accounts right after the disaster in Japan. Somebody tried to line their pockets on the noble enthusiasm of people," Kastornov continued.
According to the diplomat, the question on rendering direct aid to
Japan is now being studied by several subjects of the Russian Federation, including the Sakhalin and Irkutsk regions, the Khabarovsk and Primorye territories. The Ministry for Emergencies continues to send aid. "Japanese especially asked for blankets for refugees, feeling cold in the calamity zone," Kastornov added.
"They had wanted 10,000 blankets, but the ministry sent already over 17,000."
calls from Russian citizens who are ready to go to Japan as volunteers to participate in rescue and restoration work. Some ask how to transfer money to quake and tsunami victims, Itar-Tass learnt on Sunday from head of the consular department of the Russian embassy Sergei Kastornov.
"There were such calls from members of the Russian diaspora in Japan as well as from Russia," the diplomat said. "People are ready to work as volunteer loaders, to participate in clearing debris in the Miyagi prefecture, the hardest hit by tsunamis. One Russian said that he knows Japanese and can help Russian rescuers, working in Miyagi, clearing ruins in the city of Ishinomaki.
"On the first days," the consular chief reported, "we were flooded
with phone calls with requests for urgent evacuation. However, a reverse flow has formed now. People want to come to help Japanese and ask how this work can be organised."
Japanese authorities receive now only organised groups of professional rescuers from foreign countries. Incidentally, over 150 specialists of the Russian Ministry for Emergencies work in Japan.
Kastornov said that some Russians ask by phone how to transfer money in assistance to victims. "We tell them numbers of accounts, opened for this purpose and call on them to be cautious. The thing is that swindlers opened their own accounts right after the disaster in Japan. Somebody tried to line their pockets on the noble enthusiasm of people," Kastornov continued.
According to the diplomat, the question on rendering direct aid to
Japan is now being studied by several subjects of the Russian Federation, including the Sakhalin and Irkutsk regions, the Khabarovsk and Primorye territories. The Ministry for Emergencies continues to send aid. "Japanese especially asked for blankets for refugees, feeling cold in the calamity zone," Kastornov added.
"They had wanted 10,000 blankets, but the ministry sent already over 17,000."
