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10:22

Beginning of the evacuation of civilians in Kherson near Moscow

According to local authorities, the evacuation of civilians from the Kherson region has started. On Telegram, the administration of the region published a list of things to take with you before you leave, e.g. B. Your ID documents, hygiene products, your phone or even groceries for 2-3 days.

10:15

Belarus is not planning war mobilization, but is examining military service

After Belarus said on Wednesday it had started inviting citizens to verify their eligibility for military service, it said it had no plans to mobilize for the war, Portal reports. These are “strictly routine” recordings, said the Ministry of Defense.

10:06

The WHO counts 623 attacks on health centers in Ukraine

As of October 19, the WHO says it counted “623 attacks on health centers” in Ukraine. “They took place between February 24 and October 10, leaving 100 dead and 129 injured,” writes the organization. “Healthcare should never be a target.”

9:48

Ambassador of Ukraine to Kazakhstan relieved of his duties

Ukraine’s ambassador to Kazakhstan, Petro Vroublevskiï, who declared in late August that Ukrainians must “kill as many Russians as possible” was relieved of his post, according to a decree published on the presidential administration’s website. The text published on Tuesday evening does not explain why the ambassador, who has since apologized for his statements, was relieved of his duties.

But in early October, a spokesman for Kazakhstan’s Foreign Ministry said that Petro Vroublevskiï would be recalled to Kyiv in agreement with Ukraine. According to the same source, Kazakhstan had received an application from Ukraine to appoint a new ambassador.

9:36

The Russian region of Belgorod was hit by a shell

The governor of the Russian region of Belgorod on the Ukrainian border informed by telegram that the infrastructure in the city of Belgorod had been hit by a shell. According to Vyacheslav Gladkov, the damage is minor. This area has already been hit by gunfire.

9:29

The Russian occupation wants to evacuate 50,000 people from Kherson

Russian occupation authorities in the Kherson region of southern Ukraine plan the evacuation “to evacuate 50,000 to 60,000 people to the left bank of the Dnieper,” the river that borders the city of Kherson, said the head of the local occupation administration, Vladimir Saldo. That evacuation, at a rate of 10,000 people a day, was expected to last six days, he added on pro-Kremlin Telegram channel Solovyov Live and was quoted as saying by Russian news outlets.

The Ria-Novosti agency says evacuations by boat across the river have begun. She cites another pro-Russian official, Yevgeny Melnikov, adding that the evacuees can go to Russia.

9:12

According to Ukrainian authorities, more than 66,000 soldiers were killed on the Russian side

The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry states in its daily report that 66,280 Russian soldiers have been killed since the beginning of the offensive. Among the enemy losses are more than 2500 tanks, almost 4000 vehicles and 1637 artillery units.

However, these figures should be treated with caution as it is very difficult to verify their accuracy. The damage figures given by Moscow are significantly lower.

9:02 a.m

Residents fear a nuclear disaster near the Zaporijia power plant

When the sirens wail in Nikopol (south), the residents descend into the cellars to protect themselves. Two days ago, 40 rockets fell on the city and there is shooting every day. “It’s scary, we’re shaking,” Marina told BFMTV, “I’m scared.”

Only 7 km away, on the other side of the Dnieper, is the Zaporizhia nuclear power plant, which was occupied by the Russians. “We would be the first to be irradiated, our chances of survival would be tiny,” says Oksana.

8:55

The Estonian defense minister says Moscow will need at least two years to rebuild its army

Estonian Defense Minister Hanno Pevkur said on Tuesday he had learned that Russia’s arsenal had been reduced to the point where Russian forces were using the S-300 air defense system as ordinary missiles, and that some of the Russians’ shells detonated even before that they reached their goal your age.

“The consensus is more or less that Russia will need two to four years to restore some capabilities or even similar capabilities to before the war,” he said. According to him, Western sanctions have particularly affected aircraft production and helicopter maintenance, depriving Russia of important elements.

8:37

Russian troops are still advancing in Bakhmout

Bakhmout, on Ukraine’s eastern front, is one of the last towns where Russian forces, in retreat elsewhere, are still advancing. The small town (70,000 inhabitants before the war) has become, according to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, the “most difficult” point for the Ukrainian armed forces, which are in a defensive position in this sector.

Ukrainian soldiers are still controlling the western and northern halves of the city, AFP journalists noted on Saturday. The Separatist forces in the Donetsk region, supported by Russia and maneuvering in this battle, pushed east and south, taking advantage of their rear base’s proximity to the city of Donetsk, 100 km away. On Thursday they announced that they had taken the two neighboring suburbs of Opytin and Ivangrad.

8:35

Moscow is preparing to evacuate civilians from Kherson

Russian General Sergei Surovikin, who was in charge of operations in Ukraine for 10 days, said on the Rossiya 24 channel that without further details, the Russian army would ensure “primarily the safe evacuation of the population” from Kherson.

The capital of the eponymous region, occupied by Russia since the spring and annexed in September, is currently under attack by Ukrainian strikes on its “social, economic and industrial infrastructure,” he noted. According to him, this leads to interruptions in the supply of electricity, water and food and therefore poses an “imminent threat to the lives of residents” and therefore the need to evacuate it.

8:29

“Tense” situation on the fronts

In the city of Kherson (south), Russian troops are facing a particularly “tense” situation in the face of the counteroffensive by Kyiv, which denounced the multiple strikes that again targeted its energy infrastructure on Tuesday. The Russian army that invaded Ukraine on February 24 is being damaged from all sides.

While it was “very difficult” in Kherson, “the situation in the area of ​​military special operations can be described as tense. The enemy does not give up its attempts to attack the positions of Russian troops,” said Russian General Sergei Surovikin, in charge of operations in Ukraine. “The Ukrainian regime is trying to breach our defenses” by mobilizing “all its reserves” for the counter-offensive in the south and east.

8:20

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In the occupied territories, the Russians looted museums and burned books in the Ukrainian language: This was announced by the General Staff of the Ukrainian Army in its morning report, as reported by Ukrinform. “The invaders are destroying Ukrainian cultural heritage in the occupied territories, looting museums and burning books of Ukrainian literature,” the report said. The Ministry of Culture and Information Policy has documented more than 500 cases of Russian war crimes against Ukrainian cultural heritage.

“Russia’s targeted attacks on civilian infrastructure mark a new chapter in an already gruesome war. The international order is clear. These are war crimes. Targeted attacks on civilian infrastructure with the clear aim of depriving men, women and children of water, electricity and heating in winter. These are pure acts of terrorism. And we have to call them that,” said European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen in the European Parliament.

Pro-Russian authorities in the Kherson region plan to evacuate about 50,000 to 60,000 people to the left bank of the Dnieper In a week. This was stated by interim governor Volodymyr Saldo, which was broadcast on Solovyov Live, as reported by Ria Novosti. The commander of the Integrated Group of Russian Armed Forces in Ukraine, Army General Sergei Surovikin, said yesterday that the Russian armed forces have information that Kyiv is preparing a massive rocket attack on the dam of the Kakhovka hydroelectric power station.

A third of power plants out of order due to Russian raids, with more than 1,100 locations in Ukraine still without electricity. The capital, Kyiv, in the dark for hours, under a shower of kamikaze drones. And the Moscow army, which after more than a month on the defensive is threatening to return to the attack from the Kharkiv region, a symbol of defeat at the end of the summer. Ten days after the Kremlin was named sole commander of the offensive, the scorched-earth strategy imposed by “General Armageddon” Sergei Surovikin is hitting Ukrainian civilians harder and harder: a ruthless imprint that is now becoming apparent, designed to blunt popular resistance weaken while Russian troops reorganize themselves.

“Another type of Russian terrorist attacks: on energy and critical infrastructure. Since October 10, 30% of Ukraine’s power plants have been destroyed, causing massive power outages across the country” – from Kyiv to Kryvyi Rih, from Kharkiv to Dnipro, about four thousand Settlements affected by power outages in 10 days – is the budget approved by President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, according to which “there is no more room for negotiations with the Putin regime”. The negotiating space between the Russian and Ukrainian leaders, which is always very small, is currently at zero, even according to the key mediator of the crisis, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, fresh from the meeting in Astana with the tsar who defined one direct dialogue “now impossible”.

In the meantime, the new course of the conflict has finally plunged even the Kyiv region, scene of most of the 190 raids, into terror in one week they caused over 70 casualties and 240 injuries. The last two dead in the capital are just a few hours ago when another power plant in the Ukrainian capital was attacked, leaving several parts of the city in the dark for hours. Critical infrastructure remains the focus of the missile, drone and artillery barrages on Moscow, which are constantly sounding air alerts across the country. Raids sharply condemned by the international community, with French and British leaders Emmanuel Macron and Liz Truss denouncing “barbaric attacks on civilian areas of Ukraine”.

Under renewed pressure, Ukraine returns to cite long-range weapons supplies from the West and squanders NATO’s promise to deliver defense systems against Iran’s feared Shahed drone within days. Kyiv is also increasing pressure on Israel, to which it has made an official request for the delivery of an air defense system. “If Israel’s policy is really to constantly oppose Iran’s destructive actions, then it’s time to openly side with Ukraine,” said Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba, who at the same time suggested Zelenskyy cut diplomatic ties with Tehran , which sells weapons to Moscow, including missiles, but has always denied they are used for the offensive.

Meanwhile, Putin’s troops on the ground are preparing for the resumption of military operations in Kharkiv Oblast. The Moscow defenses claimed they had regained control of the village of Gorobyevka, which would be the first to return to Russian hands after September’s overwhelming withdrawal. In the region, Kyiv said, energy infrastructure continues to be bombed, while rockets fired from the Belgorod border area hit a humanitarian aid warehouse.

On the other hand, Belarus, where joint troops from Moscow and Minsk are stationed, is currently not showing any offensive movement. These forces, Belarusian Defense Minister Viktor Khrenin assured, “will not attack anyone” because their mission is “exclusively defensive”.

The former prime minister of Italy is said to have received a generous birthday gift from the Russian president and also contacted him in writing. The party of the winner of the election distances itself from the head of Forza Italia.

Four-time Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi embarrasses election winner Giorgia Meloni with his remarks about his good relations with Russian President Vladimir Putin. The right-wing populist’s party and Berlusconi’s ally, which should receive the order on Friday to form a government from head of state Sergio Mattarella, distanced itself from the media entrepreneur’s words.

“It must be clear that Giorgia Meloni sympathizes with the Ukrainian people who are being attacked by Putin. Italy is and will continue to be part of the European Union and NATO. Berlusconi, like all the others, negotiated with Putin to achieve this historic phase. ended when Putin decided to invade Ukraine with tanks,” Fabio Rampelli, leader of Meloni’s post-fascist Fratelli d’Italia (Brothers of Italy/FdI) party, said in a TV interview on Tuesday night. In contrast to Berlusconi’s Forza Italia party and its ally, the Lega, Fratelli d’Italia strongly condemned Russia after the attack in Ukraine.

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Berlusconi, 86, told members of parliament in his Forza Italia on Tuesday that Putin gave him 20 bottles of vodka for his birthday on September 29. Berlusconi also reported an exchange of letters and thus caused criticism.

“I have resumed relations with President Putin for a while. He sent me 20 bottles of vodka and a very sweet letter on my birthday. I responded to him with bottles of Lambrusco and an equally sweet letter,” Berlusconi said, according to an audio recording. . which circulated through Italian news agencies on Tuesday.

The media entrepreneur thus indicated that he had resumed relations with Putin after the attack on Ukraine. However, this was firmly denied by Berlusconi’s union delegates. “Berlusconi told lawmakers an old story that dates back to 2008,” emphasized the party’s “number two”, former EU Parliament leader Antonio Tajani, who is being negotiated as a possible foreign minister in a right-wing government led by the election winner Meloni. Berlusconi later claimed that he was just telling “an old story”.

After a 12-week trial, 45-year-old California native Paul Flores was unanimously found guilty by the jury, a Monterey court spokeswoman told AFP.

He was accused of killing Kristin Smart, a 19-year-old student whose disappearance from the University of San Luis Obispo campus in 1996 traumatized that region of central California, halfway between Los Angeles and San Francisco.

His body was never found and his face has long been plastered in public places. A podcast was even dedicated to the mystery of this “cold case”.

At the time of the disappearance, Paul Flores was also a student at California Polytechnic University in San Luis Obispo. He was the last to see Kristin Smart and explained that he dropped her home on his way to her dorm ten minutes after a party.

According to prosecutors, the killer either raped or attempted to rape the young woman before hiding her body under the terrace of her father’s house before taking it to another location.

The latter, suspected of helping hide the body, was found not guilty on Tuesday, the spokesman said.

During the trial, prosecutors stated that Paul Flores had been following his victim closely for months. Accordingly, he is said to have poured drugs into his drink at the student party on the night of the murder.

After more than two decades without a result, the investigation had bounced back in 2019, when a witness asserted that Paul Flores had confided in him that he had committed the murder.

The man now faces life imprisonment. His sentence, which has yet to be determined, is due on December 9th.

Contacted by AFP, his attorney Robert Sanger was not immediately available. The verdict “is pending,” he told the San Luis Obispo Tribune, declining to comment further.

Group found on the uninhabited island of Mona being used by smugglers as a drop off point for ships leaving the Dominican Republic.

More than 100 Haitian migrants have been found on an uninhabited island near Puerto Rico, US authorities said, as Haiti continues to be plagued by a humanitarian crisis caused by rising gang violence.

Park rangers working for the Puerto Rico Department of Environment and Natural Resources found the group on Mona Island, US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) spokesman Jeffrey Quinones said Tuesday.

“What we do know for now is that they were transported in just one ship,” he said.

It was not immediately clear if anyone in their group had drowned before authorities were briefed on the situation. Quinones said authorities are still questioning the migrants.

Anais Rodriguez, secretary of the Puerto Rico department that found them, said the group included 60 women, including three pregnant ones, as well as 38 men and five children, ages five to 13.

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USBP Ramey Sector is currently working on a smuggling operation across the sea involving about 104 migrants who ended up on Mona Island. The Natural Resources Public Relations Department provided the first information, and efforts by several agencies to rescue the migrants are ongoing. pic.twitter.com/rx7pgywAxW

— Scott D. Garrett, Acting Chief Patrol Agent (@USBPChiefRMY) October 18, 2022

Increasing numbers of Haitian migrants and asylum-seekers have attempted to reach the US, often by sea, in recent months as the Caribbean nation has been hit by rising violence and political instability.

The United Nations warned late last week that acute hunger is currently affecting about 4.7 million people across the country.

A gang blockade at Haiti’s main fuel terminal in the capital, Port-au-Prince, has led to severe shortages of electricity, water and food, particularly in the city’s already impoverished areas where violence is rife.

Hospitals have been forced to cut services due to a shortage of gasoline needed to run generators, and the crumbling health care network has hampered efforts to respond to a dangerous cholera outbreak.

Meanwhile, the Haitian government has urged the international community to help build a “specialized force” to crack down on the gangs — but Haitian civil society leaders have dismissed the prospect of foreign intervention.

US Ambassador to the United Nations Linda Thomas-Greenfield said Monday that the United States and Mexico are working on draft Security Council resolutions in response to the ongoing crisis.

The first would impose financial sanctions on Haitian “criminal actors” involved in the recent spate of violence, Thomas-Greenfield said, while the second would authorize “a non-UN international security assistance mission” in Haiti to restore security and to support the flow of humanitarian aid.

It remains unclear which countries would participate and in what capacity. Thomas-Greenfield said the mission would be led by a “partner country” but did not say which that would be.

White House spokeswoman Karine Jean-Pierre also dodged questions about the possible Haiti mission Tuesday, telling reporters during a news conference only that “talks are ongoing.”

As the security situation in Haiti deteriorated following the assassination of President Jovenel Moise last year and conditions in host communities elsewhere in the Americas worsened, new waves of Haitian asylum-seekers have headed to the United States.

On Sunday, the US Coast Guard said it rescued nearly 100 people, mostly from Haiti, from an overcrowded boat off the Florida coast. The passengers told Coast Guard crew members that they had been at sea for a week and had had no food or water for the past two days.

Meanwhile, from October 2021 to March 2021, 571 Haitians and 252 people from the Dominican Republic were arrested in waters around Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands, according to the CBP. Of the Haitians, 348 landed on Mona Island and were rescued.

Smugglers often use Mona Island as a drop-off point for ships leaving the Dominican Republic, often telling migrants they’ve reached Puerto Rico, even though Mona Island is uninhabited and inhospitable, Quinones said.

“Smugglers don’t care about the safety of the people they transport. You’re basically stacking them in a boat,” he said.

Next i Russian raids at energy infrastructure in different cities of Ukraine. “Russian forces destroyed them 30% of Ukrainian power plantscausing power outages across the country,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy tweeted, adding that it “another type of Russian terrorist attack», That of «Objective setting on energy and critical infrastructures». After the ongoing attacks from Moscow, now for Zelensky: «There is no more room for negotiations with the Putin regime“.

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– Володимир Зеленський (@ZelenskyyUa) October 18, 2022

The structures in the cities are targeted by the Russian raids Kharkiv, Dnipro, Mykolaiv and Zhytomyr. The complaint came this morning from the adviser to the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Kyiv, Anton Gerashchenkowho announced with a tweet how To fly continue to “attack the country’s energy infrastructure”. «In the morning Ukraine – he writes Gerashchenko – it doesn’t start with a coffee, but with sirens and dugouts ». Meanwhile also a Kyivas reported by Kyrylo TymoshenkoNumber two in President Zelenskyy’s office, a Russian rocket attack is said to have hit a power plant in the Ukrainian capital.

October 18, 2022

Actually this morning Tuesday October 18ththe anti-aircraft sirens They started playing all over the country. Also to Dnipro – City of Eastern Ukraine – Deputy Head of the Office of the President of Ukraine Kyrylo Tymoshenko reported that Russian forces took off in the city of Eastern Ukraine two attacks, causing “serious damage” to energy infrastructure. A new strategyso on the part To fly which – according to British secret services – seems to have matured into a greater willingness to go on strike Ukrainian civil infrastructure. “Having suffered setbacks on the battlefield since Russia since August, Russia has most likely developed a greater propensity to attack civilian infrastructure in addition to military targets,” the note posted to Twitter said.

pic.twitter.com/dLW6U2bCW4– Ministry of Defense 🇬🇧 (@DefenceHQ) October 18, 2022

Russia’s goal – for the Department of Foreign Affairs – is to “The Ukrainian power distribution grid was severely damaged“. In recent weeks, Moscow has intensified its attacks in different areas of the country, saying «cruise missilerockets from Ground-to-ground air defense and aircraft unmanned Shahed-136 provided by theIran“. In fact, US intelligence agents and allies had stated as much for the past few days Tehran planned to send not only attack drones but also Iran-made surface-to-surface missiles to Moscow to help Russian troops make up for the huge losses of Russian military equipment suffered since the invasion of Ukraine began on February 24 . However, equipment that Iran denies having supplied to Russia. “The Islamic Republic has not and will not sell weapons for the war in Ukraine,” Iran’s foreign minister said. Hossein Amir Abdollahian.

237th day of war in Ukraine

In which 237th day of war in Ukraineone person died after a Russian missile attack in the city Mykolayiv. This was announced by the governor of the region, Vitaly Kim, which also states that the civilian’s body was found under the rubble after the Russian bombing of a two-story building. Not only. The head of the military administration Oleksandr WilkulHe also stated that an explosion occurred this morning, Tuesday, October 18, in the hometown of President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy, or Kryvyi Rih, In the south of the country. “Around 6:30 in the morning, the occupying terrorists attacked the northern part Kryvyi Rih. As for the aftermath of the explosion, I don’t want to comment on the situation yet,” he wrote telegram. Meanwhile the President Zelensky has fresh allegations against “the terror stateWho will be held accountable for their actions after the invasion of Ukraine? “They continue to do what they do best: terrorize and kill civilians,” the Ukrainian president said. TO Mykolayiv the enemy destroyed a mansion with S-300 missiles. One person died. There was also an attack on a flower market, against Kastanienpark. I wonder what the Russian terrorists were fighting against in these absolutely peaceful places,” he concluded.

October 18, 2022

Cover photo: EPA / Oleg Petrasyuk | Kyiv after a Russian bombing raid on the power plant

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Residents of Bishkek have seen an unusual sight in recent weeks: the streets of the Kyrgyz capital are filled with tens of thousands of educated men with European traits: Russian citizens who are preparing for President Vladimir Putin’s “partial mobilization” of 300,000 reservists. for their war against the Ukraine breakout. The Kyrgyz people and government welcomed them with open arms.

Many other Eurasian cities such as Tbilisi (Georgia), Baku (Azerbaijan), Yerevan (Armenia) and Almaty (Kazakhstan) are also seeing an influx of Russian evaders. While Russian citizens have been moving to Eastern Europe and Western Asia since the February invasion of Ukraine, the Kremlin’s first large-scale mobilization since World War II has turned a steady stream into a torrent. The reason for this is simple: none of these former Soviet republics – in Russia, they are often called “near abroad” – require entry visas for Russian citizens. These countries, long dismissed by Russians as reservoirs of cheap labor, now see Russia’s brain drain as an opportunity to attract the skilled workers they desperately need.

Immediately after Putin announced the mobilization, lines formed at checkpoints along all of Russia’s borders with the former Soviet republics. At the “Upper Lars” border crossing, on the Russian-Georgian border, there were so many cars lined up that you had to wait up to four days to cross.

In the three weeks since Putin began enlisting, 700,000 people have left Russia. Earlier this month, Kazakhstan reported that 200,000 Russian citizens had entered the country since 21 September. Georgia reported that the number of Russians entering the country increased by 40-45% to 53,000 over the same period. And the European Union’s border and coast guard agency Frontex reported that 66,000 Russians entered the EU in the last week of September, up 30% from the previous week.

Not surprisingly, Russian emigrants are already transforming their host countries.

So far, the Russian Defense Ministry has not required the governments of Georgia, Kazakhstan and other countries to extradite Russian defectors and recruit evaders who have crossed their borders. However, it is questionable whether this lenient policy will last if the Russian military continues to suffer from acute staff shortages.

Meanwhile, Russian emigrants in Central Asia and those planning to emigrate use Telegram channels as their main source of information. The most popular channels include “Moving to Kazakhstan” (34,000 subscribers), “Moving to Uzbekistan” (26,000 subscribers) and “Welcome to Kyrgyzstan” (22,000 subscribers). Russian journalist Maria Maksimycheva, who moved from St Petersburg to Tashkent this spring and runs a Telegram channel about life in Uzbekistan, described the benefits of moving to Central Asia: “Great community support for newcomers, a booming economy, rapid development, a warm climate, a comfortable life.”

Not surprisingly, Russian emigrants are already transforming their host countries. With hotels and B&Bs already overcrowded, rents are skyrocketing. Some tenants were forcibly evicted from their apartments in favor of better-paid Russians.

However, the understanding of locals in former Soviet countries welcomes newcomers. For their part, Central Asian governments were quick to recognize that attracting highly qualified Russian professionals, particularly Russia’s much-vaunted tech elite, could boost their economies and improve their education systems.

Many of the people fleeing Russia today belong to the country’s intellectual elite.

For example, Kazakhstan is doing its best to attract Russian emigrants. The country offers a five-year visa to foreigners working at the Astana Hub Industrial Park and exempts them from almost all taxes. It also provides business development grants of up to $50,000 and free 12-month office rentals. Uzbekistan is also issuing three-year visas, giving tech professionals access to all social services and the right to apply for permanent residency.

Kyrgyzstan is also bidding for new entrants, granting Russian exiles “digital nomads” status, which allows them to work without permission, obtain instant personal identification numbers and enjoy streamlined services from the Ministry of Justice and tax authorities. According to Economy and Trade Minister Daniyar A Mangeldiev, the aim is “to create favorable conditions for the resettlement of such people in the Kyrgyz Republic”.

It is certain that the wave of migration will only be temporary. Many Russian emigrants, especially those who left their jobs and found no new sources of income abroad, are likely to return to Russia when they feel safe there. But those who can work, earn money and feel comfortable in exile will not be in a hurry to return. And, of course, there are also people who don’t want to live in an isolated country like Russia today. Some have already bought houses in Bishkek, others have applied for Kyrgyz citizenship.

Many of the people fleeing Russia today belong to the country’s intellectual elite. If the war in Ukraine leads to a permanent brain drain, the Russian economy will suffer even more than it has before. The country’s best minds will continue to look for a new home abroad, and their former Soviet compatriots will be happy to help.

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Translated from English by Sandra Pontow