Feb. 28, 2024
Putin's Exiles: Talking with author Paul Starobin.
1 million Russians have gone into exile since the February 2022 invasion of Ukraine. And Putin’s political adversary, Alexei Navalny, died suddenly and unexpectedly in an Arctic penal colony on February 16, 2024.
Since the Russian invasion of Ukraine two years ago, almost 1 million Russians have left the country taking up exile in Georgia, Armenia, Western Europe and beyond. And the death of Alexei Navalny on February 16th may galvanize them in the lead up to Putin's re-election, March 2024, with his widow Yulia Navalny vowing to take up his mantle.
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