Silence punctuates the flow of Dasha’s words. “In this war, it’s either black or whitehe exhales, spitting out cigarette smoke. “I found myself painted black, in the skin of the enemy, speechless“. Dasha is Russian, an artist and a 35-year-old French teacher. He had been living in Montreux since March 2022, when he fled after Putin’s offensive against Ukraine. A few weeks before he arrived in Paris, he was still demonstrating against the war in Moscow’s Pushkin Square.
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Many Russians oppose the war, which began in late February 2022. According to a source in Moscow, the number of departures is around 500,000. A portion, difficult to enumerate, settled in France.
“I only had photos of bombings.”
An emergency election, immediately after the announcement of a “special military operation” in Russia. This is Dasha’s case. “It was the worst time of my life“, he says, he has moved. “I followed my friends’ creations on Instagram…
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Source: Le Figaro
I am David Wyatt, a professional writer and journalist for Buna Times. I specialize in the world section of news coverage, where I bring to light stories and issues that affect us globally. As a graduate of Journalism, I have always had the passion to spread knowledge through writing.