Denis Alien @denis_chuzhoy is a comedian. He immediately expressed his disagreement with the war and made anti-war jokes, which is why the FSB became interested in him. Denis began receiving calls from unfamiliar numbers and threats, after which he and his wife decided to leave Russia. Now Denis performs mainly in English in stand-up clubs in Berlin, but continues to host programs on YouTube in Russian.

Alexander Kozlov, artist, sculptor, restorer. Lives in Prague. He left, “escaped,” as he put it, from the USSR, in the late 80s. The war affected his family directly. My mother-in-law died in a bombing in Mariupol. The father-in-law was forcibly taken to Crimea, where he soon died. A mother of more than eighty years old fled from Sumy to Prague, but could not live without her homeland. Returned to her homeland.