It feels like every Russian who can is trying to leave. Suitcases are packed. People are panic buying remaining air tickets. People are walking across the borders. I’ve never seen anything like it.
Of course many of the people left are those with family to look after or who cannot afford to leave. It’s upsetting to think of.
Maybe this is 1917 all over again. The wealthy quitting Russia en masse as a new historical era dawns.
In 1917, they fled to Paris and Berlin. Today it’s Yerevan, Tbilisi and Tel Aviv. But Russians are voting with their feet: by stampeding toward the exit.
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