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Revival of Cossacks Casts Muslim Group Out of Russia to U.S.

Date: November 18, 2005

Author: Peter Finn

QUOTE: Thousands of Muslims from a small ethnic group known as the Meskhetian Turks are fleeing this Black Sea region for the United States. The exodus is caused by what human rights groups call a campaign of persecution sanctioned by local authorities and spearheaded by the Cossacks, a Russian militia that fought for the czars and is being revived.

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Key People:

• Vladimir Putin
• President Boris Yeltsin
• Joseph V. Stalin

Key Organizations:

• State Department/Department of State (DOS)
• Washington Post Newspaper

Subject & Geographic Categories:

• Philosophy & Religion
  • Religion: General
    • Islam

• Social Sciences & Groups
  • Discrimination/Racism: General
  • Multi-Cultural/Minority Issues
    • Ethnic Groups
      • Arab-Americans / Muslims
    • Immigrants/Refugees

• Eurasia / Central Asia
  • Armenia
  • Georgia
  • Kazakhstan
  • Kyrgyzstan
  • Russia [ex-Soviet Union/USSR]
  • Uzbekistan

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