Inside the Collapse: How Putin's Russia Turned Its Opponents into Exiles

Inside the Collapse: How Putin's Russia Turned Its Opponents into Exiles

Over the past decade, we have witnessed a large-scale exodus of political opposition figures and civil society activists from Russia. This is not a spontaneous migration, nor one driven by personal ambition — it is a deliberate, strategically managed policy by the Kremlin to exile, neutralise, and effectively erase alternative political life within the country. The mechanism is not limited to prison sentences (although those remain a powerful to…