Russian President Vladimir Putin’s military mobilization has sparked an exodus of Russians looking to avoid conscription.
Central Asian countries are seeing rents rise and resources strained due to the influx of Russians fleeing their country.As Russians escaping a partial military mobilization in their homeland drank their morning coffee in a cinema that opened its doors for them in northwestern Kazakhstan, Central Asia was waking up to yet more fallout from Moscow’s bloody war in Ukraine.
In Oral, the Kazakh city where a movie theater called Cinema Park provided shelter for around 200 Russians over the weekend, RFE/RL correspondents saw local residents dole out free bowls of pilaf, or plov, for Russians gathering at the city train station. Like Georgia in the Caucasus, the country has seen kilometers-long lines of Russians in cars, on foot, and on scooters queuing to escape the mobilization.
Kazakh President Qasym-Zhomart Toqaev said on September 27 that most of the Russians coming to his country"are forced to leave because of the current hopeless situation. We must take care of them and ensure their safety." Speaking from Kazakhstan's Turkestan region, Toqaev added that"we will hold talks with the Russian side and will solve this problem in the interests of our country."But the great Russian exodus from the mobilization effort is visible across the region.
Arkady admitted the capital of impoverished Tajikistan was a “random choice” in his escape from Russia. Several hotels in Dushanbe appeared to be charging more than 50 percent their usual rates with rooms fully booked into the first week of October. Although cities in many of the former Soviet republics witnessed a major influx of Russians in the early weeks of Russia’s bloody war, the energy is somewhat different now, Voitenko said.
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