- Germany’s Foreign Ministry has stated that Russians of conscription age are subject to thorough vetting when applying for Schengen visas.
- Applicants for Serbian permanent residence are being asked to fill in a questionnaire that includes questions about military service and political activity.
- Latvia’s new Immigration Law comes into force today.
- Canada has issued a new round of permanent residence invitations through Express Entry.
- Thailand has changed its rules of stay for Russian nationals.
- US immigration enforcement is breaking records for the third month running: nearly 51,000 arrests in August.
- Chechen activist Mansur Movlaev has attempted suicide in a Kazakh pre-trial detention centre. In his suicide note he asked that Yulia Yemelyanova be saved from extradition to Russia.
- “He walked through the mountains for nine hours without stopping.” How to flee a military unit only to be caught at the Georgian-Turkish border — the story of Vlad Tatarintsev.
- The Kartica Trebica portal has published an in-depth piece on Russians obtaining citizenship “in the interests of Serbia.”
- Russians hoping to vote from abroad are being blocked from online access to the Central Election Commission’s systems.
Chuzhie (EXILES) is a Russian-speaking community of lawyers defending migrants in Europe. If you need help, write to us here or by email: chuzhie93@gmail.com
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