Tag: БЕЖЕНЦЫ ИЗ СИРИИ

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

Lyubov Glazunova on the Russian government’s refugee policy Escalations in […]

The UN adopted the New York Declaration for Refugees and […]

This decision arrived as a response to the refusal of the Migration authorities in Moscow Region to prolong temporary asylum of a Syrian citizen on the basis of reportedly non-existent barriers to her going back home.

Syrian civil society organisations are calling for ceasefire: “For Russia, the World Cup is a dream tournament, but in Syria, there is no reason to dream.”

Migration authority accuses refugees of violation of the Russian Federation sojourn rules without controlling whether their stay in Russia is actually illegal.

The court referred to the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms.

These days Migration services of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation have been constantly denying Syrian refugees asylum and recommending them to go back home.

The young Syrian Odey al Shufi and his 19 year-old wife, Russian citizen Nadezhda Yepifanova, live in Saint Petersburg – she is studying on the second course at LSU and he is a trainee with friends at a cafe. Or rather, he was a trainee: On the holiday evening of the 7 March 2016 a stranger came to the cafe and stabbed Odey more than ten times with a knife.

In March Civic Assistance Committee opened Russian language courses for Syrian refugee children and adults in the town of Noginsk located near Moscow. Refugees are taught Russian and a litlle of Arabic and English. We visited Noginsk and talked to courses’ teachers.