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Aid for Ethnic Refugees

MOSCOW -- The Congress of Russian Communities is setting up a private foundation to help the cash-starved government cope with ethnic Russian refugees from ex-Soviet republics, the organization's leader Dmitry Rogozin said Tuesday. The foundation will finance the construction of housing for the refugees, whose number could reach 6 million people in the next two years, Rogozin said. "The government now pays refugees 1 million rubles ($500) per person to build houses," Rogozin said. "That is not enough to build a house, but it is too much for the state."




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