MOSCOW: In a cramped apartment on the outskirts of Moscow, Lamin has little more than the clothes and the Bible he brought with him when he came ...
MOSCOW: In a cramped apartment on the outskirts of Moscow, Lamin has little more than the clothes and the Bible he brought with him when he came to Russia on a temporary World Cup visa last summer.
A church friend told him Russia would be easy to enter during the period it was hosting the football tournament."I was confused, I had no place to stay, the situation was tough," he said. With the help of the Civic Assistance Committee, an organisation that works with refugees in Russia, he has put in an application for permanent asylum.
Last month, interior ministry official Andrei Krayushkin said 12,000 people had stayed on illegally after the end of the year. One such immigrant is Solomon, who came during the World Cup to watch Nigeria play - his home side. He already had plans to stay on after the tournament."In Nigeria, there is no job, no good politics, no good life," the engineering graduate said.
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