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At a restaurant in Almaty, 27-year-old Alexander tells his story, which is similar to thousands of other young Russians who have arrived in the former Kazakh capital since last September to escape the war in Ukraine. The day after the announcement of mobilization, on September 21, this computer specialist of one of the Moscow companies has already left for his parents’ house in Penza, 550 kilometers southeast of the capital. At 05:30, the police rang the doorbell to give him the conscription sheet. “I served in the artillery, I was good at the front line”, He says. His mother claims she doesn’t know where he is.
He goes into hiding, but decides to go immediately to Kazakhstan, the country of the former USSR, where his mother was born. To tell the truth, he thought a little, since 2012 he went out on the streets several times to hold demonstrations, and Vladimir Putin’s Russia became unbearable for him…
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Source: Le Figaro
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