Five foreigners were granted “refugee” status, 28.5 thousand people were granted temporary asylum and a quarter of a million people were admitted to Russian citizenship

In his report On the Status of Political Asylum in Russia, Konstantin Troitsky, analyst of the Civic Assistance Committee, tells the history of the political asylum status, analyzes the normative documents that define it, and cites famous cases of applying for this status.

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Every year on June 20 we celebrate World Refugee Day. Traditionally by this date the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees publishes statistics on the situation with asylum seekers in the world. In the meantime, the Civic Assistance Committee analyzes the situation in Russia

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Problems of access to asylum application procedure that were typical in Moscow and Moscow region have expanded to a larger scale in 2014.

For World Refugee Day 2018, Civic Assistance Committee has published the data on the institution of asylum in Russia in 2017. The key finding from this research is that the institution of asylum has declined further from its previous position. The report has been prepared by Konstantin Troitsky, a research associate at Civic Assistance Committee.