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<title><![CDATA[Refugee policy in Eurasia: The CIS Conference and EU Enlargement Process 1996-2005, Luise Druke]]></title> 
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<title><![CDATA[The State of The World's Refugees 2000: Fifty Years of Humanitarian Action - Chapter 8: Displacement in the former Soviet region]]></title> 
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<title><![CDATA[Refugees Magazine Issue 109 (1997 In Review) - CIS]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[It is one of the largest mass migrations in modern history. Since the breakup of the Soviet Union, as many as nine million people have been on the move at any one time within the successor nations of the Commonwealth of Independent States [CIS], trekking in as many directions as there are points on the compass; civilians fleeing conflict, economic and ecological migrants and people returning to their homes of ethnic origin, some after 50 years in exile . .]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Refugees Magazine Issue 107 (Refugee voices from exile) - Once a citizen, now a stranger]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[Olimpiada Ignatenko finds herself unwelcome when she returns to her homeland in Russia.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Refugees Magazine Issue 107 (Refugee voices from exile) - Home from home]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[When the Soviet Union broke apart Alexander and Raya Vazun decided they must return to their ethnic homeland in Russia. It was not a happy homecoming.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Refugees Magazine Issue 107 (Refugee voices from exile) - A family affair]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[Mohammed Amin and wife Halima were another couple uprooted by the Soviet collapse but they have a family difference about their future.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Refugees Magazine Issue 107 (Refugee voices from exile) - An interrupted life]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[Sixteen-year-old Milana discovers what it means to be displaced three times within a few months in Chechnya.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Refugees Magazine Issue 106 (Focus : 1996 in review) - Assistance to internally displaced persons from Chechnya]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[As a result of the fighting in Chechnya, it is estimated that some 400,000 persons have had to leave the country for locations throughout the Russian Federation. Many of these persons have been displaced several times during the 20 months of conflict.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 1 Dec 1996 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Refugees Magazine Issue 106 (Focus : 1996 in review) - Managing refugees and migrants in the CIS: Nine million on the move]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[Since the early 1990s, unprecedented population movements in the territory of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) have led to a total of nine million uprooted people. The CIS Conference provided a multilateral forum to tackle population displacement issues. It was a "first" in many respects.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 1 Dec 1996 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Refugees Magazine Issue 104 (UNHCR's World) - Russian Federation: A Vladivostok weekend]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[Moscow-based Protection Officer Isabelle Mihoubi describes a very long but rewarding weekend in Vladivostok, in Russia's Far East.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 1 Jun 1996 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Refugees Magazine Issue 104 (UNHCR's World) - Displaced in Daghestan]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[This Russian Federation republic is the base for UNHCR Field Officer Larry Hollingworth, who is helping displaced people from neighbouring Chechnya.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 1 Jun 1996 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[UNHCR publication for CIS Conference (Displacement in the CIS) - In legal limbo: asylum-seekers and statelessness]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[Asylum-seekers from non-CIS countries are also by and large new to the region. At the time of independence, none of the CIS countries had suitable systems to cope with them according to international norms. Other groups, which have fallen into a similar legal vacuum, are at present effectively stateless.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 1 May 1996 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[UNHCR publication for CIS Conference (Displacement in the CIS) - Ecological disasters: the human cost]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[The USSR left behind numerous heavily contaminated or polluted industrial, agricultural and nuclear sites. The three worst hit areas - Chernobyl, the Aral Sea and the Semipalatinsk nuclear test site - have already produced more than 700,000 ecological migrants, as well as very serious health concerns for those who remain.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[UNHCR publication for CIS Conference (Displacement in the CIS) - Punished peoples: the mass deportations of the 1940s]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[Between 1936 and 1952, 3 million people were rounded up from their homes along the USSR's western borders and dumped thousands of miles away in Siberia and Central Asia. Fifty years later, some are still trying to get back.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 1 May 1996 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[UNHCR publication for CIS Conference (Displacement in the CIS) - Transit migrants and trafficking]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[  <strong>Transit migrants: a new phenomenon</strong>  The collapse of the USSR, and the subsequent liberalization of CIS societies, led to a dramatic increase in migratory movements, both within and from...]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[UNHCR publication for CIS Conference (Displacement in the CIS) - Conflicts in the Caucasus]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[The Caucasus has experienced five major conflicts, creating more than 2 million refugees and internally displaced people. While most of the conflicts are relatively quiescent, none of them appears close to finding a lasting solution. Hundreds of thousands continue to live in temporary shelter.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[UNHCR publication for CIS Conference (Displacement in the CIS) - About this publication]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[The full name of this conference (held in Geneva on 30-31 May 1996) is "Regional Conference to Address the Problems of Refugees, Displaced Persons, Other Forms of Involuntary Displacement and Returnees in the Countries of the Commonwealth of Independent States and Relevant Neighbouring States." For the sake of brevity, it is referred to in these articles as the CIS Conference.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[UNHCR publication for CIS Conference (Displacement in the CIS) - Forced to move by war or circumstance]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[The disintegration of the Soviet Union has given rise to the largest, most complex, involuntary movements of people since World War II. Some 9 million people have left their homes in CIS countries for a variety of reasons, several of them unique to the region.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[UNHCR publication for CIS Conference (Displacement in the CIS) - The CIS Conference on Refugees and Migrants]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[The CIS Conference process is the first attempt by the international community to grapple comprehensively with the huge, unprecedentedly complex and destabilizing movements taking place in the countries of the CIS.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[UNHCR publication for CIS Conference (Displacement in the CIS) - Orphans of the USSR: the return of the Slavs]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[When the Soviet Union broke up, some 34 million Russians, Ukranians and Belarusians, no longer sure whether they were at home or abroad, began to feel insecure in the newly independent republics where they were residing. By 1996, over 3 million had returned to their ethnic homelands, creating severe economic strains at both ends.]]></description>
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