There is a mass exodus out of Russia but it's not so easy to
see we come to a street in Istanbul to find two of the many Russians
on the run but when it was blocked by authorities last week, she knew
she and her partner had to flee the country.
“It's like German with Hitler right
now and everyone are so horrible terrified by Putin, they
are so afraid of him, new fake news laws criminalize independent
journalism in Russia making Tanya’s job very dangerous and i think
they will take me to the prison for 15 years and just so
simple in Russia,” she said.
“I feel desperate, and I hate them so much. I do not know how
to tell it and I’m trying not to cry. My Ukrainian colleagues and
my relatives - I’m in touch with them, what are they saying is
they're just alive and that's the point,” she said.
They're in shock at what their government is doing and deeply
worried about friends and family in Russia but also Ukraine
An estimated 200 000 Russians have left since the invasion of Ukraine seeking sanctuary abroad many coming here to Antalya where they've been welcomed for years but finding those willing to talk isn't that easy.
We met a Russian family in estate agents who decided
less than a week ago that the mood in Moscow had turned so ugly that
they had to get out as soon as possible. So, they told friends and
family they're here in turkey on holiday but they're trying to get
their property and they won't be going back now. He's not an activist,
he's not a journalist or a fishmonger but he said he had so many
threats and he have no choice but to get his wife
and nine-year-old daughter out and he says it would be too dangerous
to talk on camera.
“Our Russian payments those already here say in the last two
weeks life has become harder their currency plunging in value and
their nation becoming a pariah,” she said.
“When I go outside from my home, I feel not so comfortable
now because I’m Russian, because I have Russian passport and
because mostly people don't understand that the war is not from our
Russian people,” she said.
“We can't smile like before because I have no rights to do
it,” she said.
In conclusion, whatever the challenges abroad, it
will be easier than life in the motherland.
credit: Dominic Waghorn, sky news Youtube
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