Why are people leaving Russia, who are they, and where are they going?

2023-06-04 07:21

A trickle of Russians leaving became a stream after the full-scale invasion of Ukraine of 2022.

Hundreds of thousands of Russians are estimated to have left their country since the start of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine. We look at who they are, where they are going, and why they are leaving.

Svetlana is in her early 30s and originally from a small town. She moved to Moscow at 18 to...