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[quote=jsteele][quote=Anonymous]Does anyone know why the parents returned to Russia/Dagestan? Why on earth would a family that fled Russia & gained US entry seeking political asylum go back? Is it because they didn't "succeed" here and thought they'd go back to the Motherland since things over there became more stable than 10 years ago? Or is it because there was some kind of falling out in the family - that the parents gave their kids an ultimatum to stay or go back, and the kids refused, and the parents went back? (I'm just speculating here).  It's not common to 1) go back to your home country after getting into the US via a political asylum amnesty, and 2) it's unusual to be out of touch and disconnected from the extended family.  Clearly someone did something wrong - the parents did something f*d up or the parents resented the kids and wanted to distance themselves from them.  Either way, these kids somehow had to deal with raising themselves for a certain period of time in an incredibly high cost area, which to me seems impossible without getting into organized crime (or having a rich uncle, which in their case, they seemed to be estranged from their uncles).

Bottom line question, anyone know when the parents went back and why?[/quote]

The father said in an interview that he returned because he was diagnosed with cancer. Presumably, he couldn't afford the treatment in the US, but would be able to in Russia. But, I suspect that there may be more to the story.

The father only lived in Chechnya for one year. According to his sister, the father was given asylum because he had worked in the "enforcement agencies" in Kyrgyzstan as a lawyer and he was persecuted and they were lucky to get him out of there. But, it seems that before getting asylum, the family had moved to Dagestan where the mother has ethnic and probably family roots (she is an ethnic Avar rather than Chechen). Given that the parents have returned to Dagestan, they probably could have stayed there rather than be granted asylum. I have been able to identify anything that was going on in the late 1990s in Kyrgyzstan that would create a need for asylum for the family. 
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