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The official Serbian spin: We're welcoming the refugees back.
After being criticized, especially by the Germans, for only accepting 330 refugees so far (compared with the 10,000 now in Germany, 5,800 in Turkey, 2,354 in France, and 2,166 in Norway), the government announced Tuesday that from now on about 1,000 refugees a week would be flown to Britain from the Balkans.
The New York Times carries Yeltsin's remarks inside (as do the other papers), somehow leading instead with the promise made Thursday by Russian officials that refugees who've flooded out of Chechnya recently will be able to return to Russian-controlled parts of the region by the end of the year.
Moreover, the fighting in Afghanistan made Pakistan home to an enormous-and generally unwelcome-population of Afghan refugees; and since the badly strained Pakistani education system could not accommodate the refugees, the government increasingly let privately funded religious schools serve as a cost-free alternative.
A non-contiguous part of the Mormon empire is Mormon Country , an area of southern Alberta, Canada, which was settled by Mormons in the late 19th century refugees from US marshals looking for polygamists).