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Chechen refugees: The road to asylum passes through Dublin 2
BY MADELEINE LEROYER, SCIENCES PO, SPECIAL TO THE MEDILL NEWS SERVICE [A version of this story won third prize in the 2007 Daniel Pearl Award, a competition sponsored by The Wall Street Journal, in collaboration with the Ecole de Journalisme de Sciences Po in Paris, and was published in the Wall Street Journal Online] Read the English version After two years of living in fear, a Chechen family that had found refuge in Brest, France, finally obtained legal papers. As with the majority of Chechen exiles, they came through Poland. Arrested and registered there as asylum seekers, according to European legislation, they decided to flee further west. But Europe had already transformed them into illegal migrants. A balloon explodes. Raissa jumps, her hands pressed hard on her pregnant belly. Another balloon explodes. Her eyes feverishly look for her sons. It's Dec. 26, 2006, in Brest, France. The association, Brest Education Without Borders, that coordinates the different collectives that provide relief to the undocumented migrants living in the city, has organized a Christmas party in the association's house. Children play. Raissa tries to forget the memories, the explosions, the bombs. Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0) Filed under: Chechnya, Feature Stories, France, Paris Dispatches, Russia
London is home to an estimated 300,000 citizens from the former Soviet Union (International Herald Tribune, Dec. 18, 2006)
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16 countries, almost all former USSR states, experienced population declines between 2000 and 2005 (Bloomberg News, Oct. 17, 2006)
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=a6rGP_zpSR.0&refer=home (More)Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0) Filed under: Russia, There
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