REFUGEES IN GEORGIA GOING HOME, OR ELSEWHERE.

Agence France Presse noted on April 22 that the number of Chechen refugees remaining in Georgia’s Pankisi Gorge had fallen sharply over the past year. “While there were nearly 7,000 refugees in the area a year ago,” the press service wrote, “there are now just 1,100, the [Georgian Refugee] Ministry announced after carrying out a census this month with the support of the United Nations’ refugees agency.” At least 2,000 refugees who had been living in the Gorge area left Georgia this year, either to return to Chechnya or to go to other countries or to other regions of Russia.