“I think it’s a betrayal to leave Russia now,” a friend of one of my sons, a 25-year-old frequenter of Bolotnaya and Sakharov, told me the other day. “And if you have a choice: prison or emigration, what will you choose?” I asked. “I will choose prison,” he answered as if he had been thinking about it for a long time, weighing all the pros and cons. I've heard something similar before. It was probably in the early 80s. At the parents' kitchen, the guests argued until they were hoarse.

How Lugansk militias squeeze out Ukrainian border guards In Kyiv, they declare the intention to "immediately close the border with Russia in the east of the country." However, on June 4, the last Ukrainian border guard left Chervon Partizansk of the Lugansk region Farewell to those who died as a result of an air raid to the regional administration building in Lugansk. June 4, 2014 /Photo: EPA /Jakub Kaminski Poland Out Artillery beats in its Lugansk, June 4, hot afternoon.

In Slavyansk, the reserves of water, food, vigor of the spirit end, but not a blind faith in this war Approaches to Slavyansk under the "constant sight" /photo: Michela Yakkarino “Welcome to hell.