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Title	Estonia: Information on the Udmurt ethnic group, including their current treatment
Publisher	Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada
Country	Estonia
Publication Date	1 August 1997
Citation / Document Symbol	EST27517.E
Cite as	Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada, Estonia: Information on the Udmurt ethnic group, including their current treatment, 1 August 1997, EST27517.E, available at: http://www.unhcr.org/refworld/docid/3ae6acd76c.html [accessed 27 May 2012]
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Estonia: Information on the Udmurt ethnic group, including their current treatment

For information on the Udmurts in Estonia, please consult the attached facsimile sent to the DIRB on 15 August 1997 by the director of the Aleksanteri Institute in Helsinki. In a 15 August 1997 telephone interview, the director stated that the Aleksanteri Institute at the Finnish Centre for Russian and East European Studies, University of Helsinki, is a research institute specializing in the Baltic States and Russia. The Institute also provides consultation and information services to businesses and the Finnish government. The director added that the information in the 15 August 1997 facsimile represents the viewpoint of the Institute.

Corroborating information on the Udmurts in Estonia could not be found among the sources consulted by the DIRB.

This Response was prepared after researching publicly accessible information currently available to the DIRB within time constraints. This Response is not, and does not purport to be, conclusive as to the merit of any particular claim to refugee status or asylum. Please find below the list of additional sources consulted in researching this Information Request.

Reference

Aleksanteri Institute, Helsinki. 15 August 1997. Telephone interview with the director.

Attachment

Aleksanteri Institute, Helsinki. 15 August 1997. Facsimile sent to the DIRB.

Additional Sources Consulted

Amnesty International Report. Yearly.

Baltic Times [Riga]. Weekly.

CSCE Digest [Washington]. Monthly.

DIRB country file on Estonia.

DIRB databases.

Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) Reports. Daily.

Minority Rights Group International Report [London]. Irregular.

Nationalities Papers [Abingdon, Oxfordshire, UK]. Quarterly.

News from Helsinki Watch [New York]. Monthly.

Transition [Prague]. Twice monthly.

Uncaptive Minds [Washington]. Quarterly.

On-line search of media sources.

Unsuccessful attempts to contact other oral sources.

Topics: Udmurts, Ethnic persecution, Ethnic discrimination,

Copyright notice: This document is published with the permission of the copyright holder and producer Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada (IRB). The original version of this document may be found on the offical website of the IRB at http://www.irb-cisr.gc.ca/en/. Documents earlier than 2003 may be found only on Refworld.

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