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Finnish Court Rejects Russian Family’s Asylum Bid Despite Opposition Support, Mother’s Illness

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A Finnish court has rejected an appeal by the family of Russian national Valentin Sergienko against a decision by the country’s migration service, Migri, to deny them political asylum, former St. Petersburg municipal deputy Svetlana Utkina told Mediazona.

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The Administrative Court in Finland dismissed the complaint by the Russian family of Valentina Sergienko against the decision of the Migration Service (Mi...

·Moscow, Russian Federation (the)
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On 14 August, the Finnish Immigration Service refused to grant asylum to Valentin Sergienko and his parents. On 14 August, the family must report to the police, inform Rain, the former municipal deputy of Petersburg, Svetlan Ukkin. If Sergienko did not voluntarily leave the country, they could be expelled by force. The family left Russia after the announcement of mobilization in September 2022 and requested international protection in Germany. U…

The Administrative Court of Finland rejected the complaint of the Russian family of Valentina Sergienko against the decision of the migration service of the country (Migri), which denied her political asylum, as reported by Mediasone, a former municipal deputy from Petersburg, Svetlan Ukkin. Sergienko, together with his parents, left Russia in September 2022; initially, the family applied for asylum in Germany, but their case was transferred to …

The Court in Finland did not respond to the complaint by the family of a Russian citizen, Valentina Sergienko, against the decision of the Migration Service (Migri) to refuse political asylum, which was reported by Mediasona with reference to former Petrburg mutineer Svetlan Utkin, who considered his activities "not sufficiently large and public to attract the personal attention of the Russian authorities".

·Prague, Czechia
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The authorities considered his political activity to be insufficient in public... the rain network: news, video, air, online, archive, programme.

·Russian Federation (the)
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tvrain.tv broke the news in Russian Federation (the) on Thursday, August 13, 2026.
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