By empty (12/6/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
A hundred and twenty-five Chechen refugees who lived in Georgia\'s Pankisi gorge over the past several years arrived in Russia on Tuesday evening, the Russian presidential Envoy in the Southern Federal District Dmitry Kozak told journalists. \"The refugees were taken to Makhachkala in an Emergency Situations Ministry plane. From there they were taken to Grozny in five buses.
A hundred and twenty-five Chechen refugees who lived in Georgia\'s Pankisi gorge over the past several years arrived in Russia on Tuesday evening, the Russian presidential Envoy in the Southern Federal District Dmitry Kozak told journalists. \"The refugees were taken to Makhachkala in an Emergency Situations Ministry plane. From there they were taken to Grozny in five buses. They have been quartered in temporary housing, four people to a room. The people were supplied with hot food and all the necessities,\" Kozak said. The refugee problem in the Pankisi gorge is almost solved, Kozak said. \"Everyone who wanted to return to their homeland has been able to do it,\" he said. The refugees\' return was possible thanks to efforts of the Federal Migration Service, Kozak said. (Interfax)