INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Russia accepted an all-time low number of refugees so far this year despite authorities boasting of hundreds of thousands Ukrainians being
brought into the country to escape war at home, researchers said Monday.Interior Ministry data revealed that only two people have been
granted refugee status between January and March 2022, according to the Civic Assistance Committee, a Moscow-based NGO.The overall number of
granted temporary asylum in Russia and more than 141,500 citizens of mostly ex-Soviet republics handed Russian passports as of April
holders and forcibly displaced persons is likely explained by the lack of information, resistance from officials or Ukrainian nationals'
established in 1990 to help refugees and migrants displaced by conflicts as the Soviet Union fell apart.Russia branded the organization a
