![]() ![]() Many have already headed to Georgia and Armenia, two major visa-free destinations accessible now that Russian airlines have been banned from most Western airspace. Amid state shutdowns of almost all of the last major independent media outlets and the announcement of draconian punishment for any coverage or criticism of Vladimir Putin’s war on Ukraine, tens or even hundreds of thousands of members of Russia’s liberal intelligentsia and political opposition are scrambling to escape. Rumors of impending martial law, closed borders, conscription and punitive military service have fueled panic. They are running not from foreign bombs but from their own government. ![]() But Russians are fleeing their own country too, at a speed most likely not seen since the collapse of the Soviet Union. The eyes of the world are focused on the millions of Ukrainians fleeing Russia’s brutal invasion. Russians who fled Russia to Turkey following the Ukraine invasion and government oppression share tips on how to settle in Istanbul. ![]()
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