Russian family prefers exile to 'unbearable' pro-war mood at home

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TBILISI (Reuters) - A day after Russia invaded Ukraine, married couple Olga and Nikolai Kustov locked up their St Petersburg apartment, took their children out of school, and moved to a foreign country.

Despite facing an uncertain future, they still believe they are better off than if they stayed in Russia.

The couple - along with their children aged two and seven, Olga's Ukrainian-born mother and their pet cat - are now settling into life in neighbouring Georgia, part of a rapidly-swelling diaspora that has quit Russia in the five weeks since Moscow launched what it calls its "special military operation", but which the West and Ukraine say is a war of aggression.

"What happened did not leave us the option to live our old lives, even if we stayed in our flat, in the same job, with friends and relatives," says Olga.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/russian-family-prefers-exile-unbearable-103150215.html

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1. K&R

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2. Quotable

"I honestly believe that it's in Russia that Russians are treated the worst."

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4. Maybe one of these days they'll finally throw off...

their affinity for tyrants and try democracy. What is it in their character that they keep putting in the Stalins, Khrushchevs, Brezhnevs and now Putin?

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5. Apparently 150 years of Mongol rule didn't help

Can’t recommend this enough, if you have an hour to burn. It’s quite sobering…the expats are in a better place. But the world still has to figure out a way to live with a paranoid autocratic-worshipping nation armed to the teeth with WMD.

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3. Putin controls the state media outlets so most of the...

Russian public gets fed the preferred propaganda and most of them believe it I guess.

A reminder to us that we do have freedom of the press and not all of our outlets are extreme winger, pro-Putin spewing info silos.