The US should welcome Russian refugees

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“I understood the best way to act against Putin’s regime would be my emigration from Russia,” Yevgeny Lyamin told a BBC reporter in Georgia in March.

Hundreds of thousands of Russians were leaving back in those days. Six months later, mass emigration from Russia has resumed. For fear of being conscripted into Vladimir Putin’s mad war against Ukraine, tens of thousands of Russian families and single men are fleeing the country.

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