ST.PETERSBURG, Russia — An Uzbek who swam across a river from Russia to reach Estonia is applying for political asylum in Russia following his release from jail there, RFE/RL’s Uzbek service reports. The Estonian authorities deported Rakhim Sobirov, 30, to Russia in September after he swam across the 300 meter-wide Narva River and entered Estonia [...]
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November 22, 2011
November 15, 2011
Uzbek Citizen Arrested In Moscow For Murders
Moscow police have arrested an Uzbek migrant worker in connection with the murder of a Kazakh woman and her one-year-old son, RFE/RL’s Uzbek Service reports. The bodies of the Kazakh citizen, 28, and her son were found by local residents in the town of Povedniki near Moscow on November 9. Both bodies bore signs of [...]
