In the first half-year of 2005, 9400 Chechens asked for asylum in the West
The data published in September, 6 by the Supreme commissariat on refugees of the United Nations are such. The data concern 36 industrially advanced countries of the West, including 24 countries of the Eurounion.
As a whole, because of sharply amplified restrictive policy concerning refugees, their number was strongly reduced, especially in such new countries of the Eurounion, as Slovakia and Poland. In USA the total number of refugees was reduced to 8 % in comparison with the same period of the last year, in England - to 23 %, in Germany - 29 %, in Austria - 26 %, in Canada - 26 %, in Sweden - 30 %, in Slovakia - 78 %, - informs the agency Reiter.
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