The Foreign Ministry will be offering three-month visas as early as next month, Russian state media said.
  • Putin has signed a decree that Russia will welcome foreigners who want to escape Western liberal ideals.
  • Applicants may include those from countries unaligned with “Russian spiritual and moral values.”
  • The application process has been simplified, and visas will be issued as soon as next month.
  • TroyEnglish
    12•4 months ago

    This would be the most circuitous immigration route they could take to get to Europe… go to russia, head to front lines (and survive), surrender, become a POW, claim refugee status (and avoid being deported), land in a western country and start from scratch.

    • Flying SquidMEnglish
      3•4 months ago

      I was thinking just because they realized if they didn’t defect, they’d be killed, not to get to Europe.

    • @[email protected]English
      3•4 months ago

      Sounds like a modern Don Quixote (though I imagine in their minds it’s more like The Odyssey).