Russia is losing creative talent. Some of its biggest artists have immigrated to Israel this year to rebuild their careers and safely voice their conscience about the war in Ukraine.
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, 28, worked at one of the world's leading dance institutions, Russia's Mariinsky Theater. Then when the war broke out, her dancers began to vanish.Mitryashina attended a recent networking event at the Israel Festival in Jerusalem, which brought 100 Russian and Ukrainian artists in film, music, art and dance — new immigrants like her — to meet veteran Israeli artistic directors and try to rebuild their careers in Israel.
"Sometimes I'm angry [at] the people who stay ... and continue to work for the big companies, and continue to make money" in Russia, she says."I am like, 'Are you crazy? You, you're like a sponsor of the war.'"Illustrator and portrait artist Victor Melamed at his home in Ramat Gan, Israel on Nov. 2 with Yegor, one of his 16-year-old twin sons.Illustrator and portrait artist Victor Melamed at his home in Ramat Gan, Israel on Nov.
"I have no romantic visions of, you know, Israel's policies," he says."The Israeli army is an institution that cares for every person they have ... as opposed to the Russian army." Each morning he draws a black-and-white portrait of a Ukrainian civilian killed in a Russian attack, and posts it on. He says it's his way of pinching himself, not to get too comfortable in his new home in Israel.Natan Odenheimer contributed to this story from Jerusalem.
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