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Russian man swims from Kaliningrad to Lithuania seeking asylum, gets sent back to Russia
Meduza [en] · baltic theater
Lithuania’s border service detained a Russian citizen who swam across the Neman River seeking political asylum and sent him back to Russia, according to a report by the Lithuanian news outlet Lrytas.
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