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PROKOPENKO v. ASHCROFT

No. 03-2920.

372 F.3d 941 (2004)

Dimitri PROKOPENKO, Petitioner, v. John ASHCROFT, Attorney General of the United States, Respondent.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Filed: June 16, 2004.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gregory Scott Bachmeier, argued, Minneapolis, MN, for petitioner.

Gregory G. Katsas, Civil Division, Dept. of Justice, argued, Washington, DC (James E. Grimes, on the brief), for respondent.

Before MURPHY, HEANEY, and MAGILL, Circuit Judges.

MURPHY, Circuit Judge.

Dimitri Prokopenko petitions for review of a decision of the Board of Immigration Appeals denying his requests for asylum, withholding of removal, and relief under the Convention Against Torture. He argues that he has been and will be persecuted in Georgia on account of his Russian ethnicity and Baptist religion.

Prokopenko, a 25 year old ethnic Russian and citizen of Georgia, belongs to an active Baptist family. Although he has never...

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