> Over the past ten years, European countries have rejected 77% of asylum applications from Russians. Most often, Russians sought asylum in Germany, which mostly rejected them. This follows from the data collected by the project “If You’re Exact.
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> Since 2012, 153 thousand Russians have applied for asylum in the countries of Europe; during the same time, 35 thousand citizens of Russia were granted refugee status. On average across the countries, only one-fifth of Russian applications are granted during the first review. The process can take years, lawyers say.
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> Among European countries, Russians more often seek asylum in Germany. Over the past ten years, almost 54 thousand Russians have applied to it – more than a third of all applicants from Russia. Germany has refused in 90% of cases.
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> France is on the second place by popularity. The Russians sent to it more than 42 thousand applications for asylum. The country rejected 76% of the requests.
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> A large part of the Russians are trying to flee to Austria, Poland and Belgium – most of them do not succeed. Since 2012, only Malta has not once refused asylum seekers from Russia – ten Russians have requested asylum there.
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> Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24, 2022. After that, tens of thousands of people left Russia. In response, Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky called on European countries to stop issuing visas to Russians, and suggested that people persecuted in Russia apply for refugee status.
> Asylum can be requested if there is evidence that a person has been repeatedly persecuted by the state (or affiliated structures) in various ways because of his personal position or activities.
great news
It should be 100%
Should be 100%
Ironic that it’s mainly German redditers criticizing the tourust visa ban, becayse it will make Russian getting asylum harder.
>People are trying to flee and get their applications denied
>Then those people start slowly turning pro Putin
Europe: surprised Pikachu face
If I lived in Russia I’d want to escape from there too.
Where are all those who said “nothing to see here, it’s only about tourist visas, one can always apply for asylum”?
the fact that many people believes that every russian escaping russia is doing it for immaculate believe in european values and not for more comfortable life is astonishing.. and disingenuous as fuck
asking for a visa doenst make you automatically one of the good guys.
Russian-bots are weird. At first they were posting comments against vacation visa bans, but now they’re posting comments in support of full on ban on Russians leaving Russia.
Russian even before this war rarely got accepted for asylum. Nowadays only lgbt folks and journalist get asylum. In the past there are many Chechens who could get asylum but that stopped.
Like 70% of me says we should let them escape Russia because we have a moral duty to give asylum
Another 20% says we should welcome them to take Russia’s best and smartest away from Russia
But a noisy 10% says force them to stay, one might fix the country
Europe is closed for holidays. Only asylum visas should be given to russians.
That’s right. Why go to bad Europe if russia is good at home?))
It is pretty funny to see that redditors from Europe who haven’t done a thing harder, than harassing trans people, speak about how people, who are on a verge of being imprisoned, should be treated.
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It’s in Russian, so here’s a DeepL translation:
> Over the past ten years, European countries have rejected 77% of asylum applications from Russians. Most often, Russians sought asylum in Germany, which mostly rejected them. This follows from the data collected by the project “If You’re Exact.
>
> Since 2012, 153 thousand Russians have applied for asylum in the countries of Europe; during the same time, 35 thousand citizens of Russia were granted refugee status. On average across the countries, only one-fifth of Russian applications are granted during the first review. The process can take years, lawyers say.
>
> Among European countries, Russians more often seek asylum in Germany. Over the past ten years, almost 54 thousand Russians have applied to it – more than a third of all applicants from Russia. Germany has refused in 90% of cases.
>
> France is on the second place by popularity. The Russians sent to it more than 42 thousand applications for asylum. The country rejected 76% of the requests.
>
> A large part of the Russians are trying to flee to Austria, Poland and Belgium – most of them do not succeed. Since 2012, only Malta has not once refused asylum seekers from Russia – ten Russians have requested asylum there.
>
> Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24, 2022. After that, tens of thousands of people left Russia. In response, Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky called on European countries to stop issuing visas to Russians, and suggested that people persecuted in Russia apply for refugee status.
> Asylum can be requested if there is evidence that a person has been repeatedly persecuted by the state (or affiliated structures) in various ways because of his personal position or activities.
great news
It should be 100%
Should be 100%
Ironic that it’s mainly German redditers criticizing the tourust visa ban, becayse it will make Russian getting asylum harder.
>People are trying to flee and get their applications denied
>Then those people start slowly turning pro Putin
Europe: surprised Pikachu face
If I lived in Russia I’d want to escape from there too.
Where are all those who said “nothing to see here, it’s only about tourist visas, one can always apply for asylum”?
the fact that many people believes that every russian escaping russia is doing it for immaculate believe in european values and not for more comfortable life is astonishing.. and disingenuous as fuck
asking for a visa doenst make you automatically one of the good guys.
Russian-bots are weird. At first they were posting comments against vacation visa bans, but now they’re posting comments in support of full on ban on Russians leaving Russia.
Russian even before this war rarely got accepted for asylum. Nowadays only lgbt folks and journalist get asylum. In the past there are many Chechens who could get asylum but that stopped.
Like 70% of me says we should let them escape Russia because we have a moral duty to give asylum
Another 20% says we should welcome them to take Russia’s best and smartest away from Russia
But a noisy 10% says force them to stay, one might fix the country
Europe is closed for holidays. Only asylum visas should be given to russians.
That’s right. Why go to bad Europe if russia is good at home?))
It is pretty funny to see that redditors from Europe who haven’t done a thing harder, than harassing trans people, speak about how people, who are on a verge of being imprisoned, should be treated.