“Cutting ties with your country is like a death”: the shattered lives of Russians in exile. From 1843 magazine
and a city he knew well, joining a wave of Russian activists and journalists looking for a haven. It was snowing when he arrived and his Georgian friends joked that they had brought the cold with them from Moscow. Ten days later, Ira and their son Boris joined him. Loshak found an apartment after a week, paid for with the money he’d set aside to buy land. The most important thing was that his family was with him. “I was extremely lucky,” he said.
The co-ordinator of the Free Russia Foundation in Tbilisi, Anton Mikhalchuk, fled Siberia in 2019 when facing prosecution for working for a prohibited. He has a blond handlebar moustache and a serious mien. Since the war began, police have searched his parents’ and girlfriend’s flats in Russia and friends have been called in for questioning. Mikhalchuk estimated there were currently about 1,500in Georgia. Free Russia now organises conferences and demonstrations against war.
Oceansburning was gentler than her fierce name suggested. She missed her mother and wondered whether she would see her again. This was her first time outside Russia. “I like this country”, she said of Georgia, “because I feel free. I understand here that people respect me and my rights. It’s incredible. I’m not afraid of the police.” The slogans “Fuck Putin” and “Fuck the War” were printed in small letters on her top.
The documentary movingly captures the anguish of these divisions. Love pokes through the frustration and the anger. One mother is concerned that her daughter will end up living far away, in the West, because she hates the government. Another worries that her daughter will come to harm – “she was always such a rebel” – and keeps in touch even though the rest of the family won’t.
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