One morning last week, Anton Dolin, a famous film critic in Russia, found, painted on the door of his Moscow apartment, the letter Z … The same one appears on the tanks of the "special military operation" (1) in Ukraine. The threat message was clear. On Sunday, the editor of the magazine L'Art du Cinéma left his country. It has since been located in Latvia where Artdocfest, an international festival dedicated to documentaries, is held. "we'll see what happens next," he writes on his Telegram account. I simply couldn't breathe the air from Moscow (…) As people were killed and died in Ukraine, "he says.
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Like him, tens of thousands, since the fateful date of February 24, have taken the path of exodus: artists, journalists, filmmakers, young entrepreneurs, executives in the field of tech, and more generally Russians from the urban middle class with a …
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