Thousands of Russians have fled their home country since President Vladimir Putin launched the war on Ukraine.
. The visa factor was important for Pavel, a young designer who asked not to give a last name to protect his anonymity. Pavel flew to Yerevan, Armenia, from Moscow right after the war started. “Yerevan was the easiest and the cheapest option [from Moscow]. You don’t even need an international passport to travel there. The airplane to Yerevan was full of young Russians and, as far as I heard from the conversations, many of them work in IT,” Pavel explained.
He described the Russian community in Yerevan as “concentrated in Telegram chats. People communicate through chats and help each other with everything, from opening a bank account to buying food.” Pavel spent a month in Yerevan but returned to Russia at the beginning of April. “I left Russia because my card was blocked and I couldn’t receive a salary. I work for an American company. In addition, I wanted to avoid possible military conscription and border closure.
Some Russians are also moving to the European Union, though it’s more difficult to relocate there since EU countries require Russian immigrants. Things are easier for those who work for European companies or have dual citizenship. “I moved to Spain with my husband. He works for an IT company in Málaga. That's how we received our visas,” said Taina, a former resident of Saint Petersburg, who wished not to disclose her last name for security. Taina left her home in early March.
According to Taina, the Russian community in Málaga is “rather big.” She mostly keeps in touch with her husband’s coworkers, who also relocated recently, and says all of them cite Russia’s economic troubles as an important reason for moving. “We’ve been outraged by corruption and police brutality in Russia for a long time. However, the economic factor was also important; the prices of basic products rose every week, while wages remained the same,” Taina explained.
Given the unstable political and economic environment in Russia, it's hard for those who left since the invasion to predict whether they will eventually go home, Maria Snegovaya, a political scientist and a visiting scholar at George Washington University, toldWant more from
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