Mobilization: why many Russians are now leaving the country – politics

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Silke Bigalke, Moscow

Fleeing Russians, arson attacks on conscription offices, angry mothers, broken down doors, a tank on the Georgian border. The mobilization did not lead to mass protests in Russia. Less than a week after the start, however, it is becoming clear that many people are reacting to Vladimir Putin’s new tactics with fear, concern and anger and not with the patriotic zeal that the Kremlin chief so often invokes.

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