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Re:Russia is persecuting dissenters by taking away their chi... by orthoxerox on Wednesday April 05, 2023 @09:19AM (#35453678)
About 30% of Russians are against the war (20% don't know, 50% support the war). That's about 40 million people that would have to leave the country.

Only 30% of Russians have travel passports, and most of them used them to travel to Ukraine, Kazakhstan and other ex-Soviet countries to visit their relatives.

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Re:Russia is persecuting dissenters by taking away their chi... by 5e92cb50239222b on Wednesday April 05, 2023 @09:35AM (#35453917)
Those numbers are pulled right out of someone's ass. No-one really knows how many citizens are for and against the war (there were some hints that the Kremlin did several unofficial polls and really didn't like their results, but nothing supported by good evidence).

Also, you don't need a travel passport to visit relatives in ECU (which Kazakhstan is a member of), and it's pretty much impossible to visit Ukraine legally regardless of whether you have a passport or not.

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Re:Russia is persecuting dissenters by taking away their chi... by SXX on Wednesday April 05, 2023 @10:27AM (#35454825)
I have a Russian passport and I've been to Kiev in December 2021. It was just a few months before war has started and talks about possible war was all around the news for months already.

Had no problem crossing Ukraine border control. Of course after war started it became impossible, but it was very much expected.

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