According to data from the Civic Assistance Committee, which offers legal, medical and social assistance for refugees and their families, there are 800 people with refugee status in Russia today.
Human rights activists assert that refugee status is very difficult to obtain in Russia, regardless of the fact that the country signed the 1951 Convention on the Status of Refugees after the fall of the Soviet Union. For their part, public officials declare that the majority of claimants do not have sufficient grounds to receive refugee status, arriving in Russia solely for economic reasons.
More than Europe
For two weeks, a Kurdish family from Syria has been living in the transit zone of Moscow’s Sheremetyevo airport. Two adults and four small children cannot enter Russia.
