ALMATY/PRAGUE — Estonia has deported an Uzbek asylum seeker who swam across a river from Russia to reach the Baltic country, RFE/RL’s Uzbek and Kazakh services report. Estonian police said Rakhim Sobirov was deported to Russia over the weekend because he entered Estonian territory from Russia illegally by swimming across the 300-meter-wide Narva River that [...]
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