Author: Exiles

“Chuzhie” (EXILES) is a Russian-speaking community of lawyers defending migrants in Europe. If you need help, write to us here or by email.

A lawyer with Chuzhie in Lithuania has obtained the ruling of Lithuania’s Supreme Administrative Court concerning the Russian rapper. In April 2026 the court overturned the decision of the Migration Department, which in 2025 had declared Morgenshtern a threat to national security or public order and banned him from entering Lithuania for 10 years. The…

“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

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

“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

Finland’s Immigration Service (Migri) granted refugee status to Alexander Zheleznikov. This happened 7 years after the Russian first applied for protection. Zheleznikov arrived in Finland in March 2019. The man had fled Russia after drawing the FSB’s attention: he had been an activist in the anarchist and antifascist movement opposing Putin’s rule. When Russia launched…

Lithuania’s State Security Department designated 22 Belarusians a threat to national security. They were stripped of their residence permits and banned from entering the Schengen area for 5 years. They worked at an IT company, two employees of which a Lithuanian court convicted of fraudulently obtaining European Union funds. The prosecution also established that they…

Yesterday the ECtHR refused to hear all remaining complaints from Russians. The only exceptions were cases relating to armed conflicts involving Russia. “Exiles” founder Mikhail Beniash is convinced this is “very, very, very bad for justice.” “Reviewing the whole array of complaints from Russia — varied, complex, turbulent, unfamiliar to Europe — would have been…

On July 1, the Higher Administrative Court of Saxony denied protection to a young Russian from Dagestan. In the court’s view, conscription into the Russian army by itself does not provide grounds for asylum or subsidiary protection (the right to stay in the country without refugee status). This ruling was found by Artyom Klyga, “Exiles’”…