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Moscow metro: Russian artist Ekaterina Selenkina made a performance art piece in over 20 stations in one hour (Photo: Kyle Taylor)

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Art of resistance: Exiled Russians create new wave in Europe

Moscow metro: Russian artist Ekaterina Selenkina made a performance art piece in over 20 stations in one hour (Photo: Kyle Taylor)

More than 2,000 Russian artists and other creatives have condemned the Ukraine war in the past 18 months — and many of them now live in the West. 

The culture-drain began long before Russian president Vladimir Putin's full-scale invasion of Ukraine last February, but Russia's new level of aggression is swelling the flow of emigration. 

EUobserver spoke to Russian artists-in-exile about how they're doing in their new homes. Their stories vary: some are conquering Europe's film and ...

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Daria Kozlova is a correspondent at independent Russian newspaper Novaya Gazeta Europe, and currently a resident journalist at EUobserver.

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