By empty (9/13/2004 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Eighty-eight Russian refugees from Chechnya, who were earlier denied entry into Poland, managed to cross the Belarussian-Polish border on Monday, sources in the Brest passenger station\'s border control department (Belarus) told Interfax. All of them were given the status of refugees and sent to Polish centers for displaced persons, they said. Chief of the station\'s border control department, Sergei Dral, told Interfax that 125 refugees from Chechnya attempted to enter Poland on Saturday, but only 24 of them were cleared into that country.The Central Asia-Caucasus Analyst is a biweekly publication of the Central Asia-Caucasus Institute & Silk Road Studies Program, a Joint Transatlantic Research and Policy Center affiliated with the American Foreign Policy Council, Washington DC., and the Institute for Security and Development Policy, Stockholm. For 15 years, the Analyst has brought cutting edge analysis of the region geared toward a practitioner audience.
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