But often, as with two new actors in Irkutsk, local cultural life has been invigorated by Russian artists fleeing unrest in the former Soviet republics.

In September 2004 between 20,000 and 150,000 people fled unrest in the eastern Kivu province caused by an advance of government troops against breakaway national army soldiers.

By 1880s, the influx rose to 5.2 million, as immigrants fled persecution and unrest in eastern and southern Europe.

A university was established in Cambridge around 1209, probably by scholars fleeing unrest in Oxford.

During the 1940s many Chinese Muslims fled unrest in China and settled in Karachi.

They have fled fighting and unrest in their hometown of Abayan.

Due to violence, Moya and her team fled civil unrest and were evacuated to Kenya.

The Chins fled political unrest in Jamaica during the 70's and moved to Jamaica, Queens.

Earlier violence in the region was set off in part by fears that the government had plans to give apartments to refugees fleeing ethnic unrest in other parts of the country.

Diaghilev's company became a destination for many of the Russian-trained dancers fleeing the famine and unrest that followed the Bolshevik revolution.