SocietyRussians who left after the 2022 mobilization describe rebuilding life abroad — and what they have lost
On the fourth anniversary of Russia’s mobilization, Meduza collected readers’ accounts of life abroad. Russians in Serbia and Spain describe establishing routines, making friends and securing residency, alongside difficulties adapting, longing for home, and anguish over political persecution, war and separation from loved ones.
Russians who left after the 2022 mobilization describe rebuilding life abroad — and what they have lost