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And do most Americans who leave the US condemn American soldiers for murdering a million Iraqis and continuing to colonize their country? At a certain point just not engaging in these pointless wars should be enough.
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Lots of Americans were against the Iraq war, and I'd think expats were particularly likely to be (and the US did not kill a million Iraqis).
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Most are probably too busy dissing the health care situation
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What millions bro? It's arabs killing each other that raised the death count. You guys are brain broken
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I have?

> On the first anniversary of the invasion, rallies took place in the main cities where Russian exiles settled, including Tbilisi, Vilnius, Berlin, Barcelona, Paris and London, with turnout in the hundreds. In Yerevan, protesters burned a picture of Putin.

> In November 2024, at least a thousand people marched through central Berlin behind Navalnaya, Yashin and Kara-Murza, with parallel rallies in cities including Prague, Vilnius, Yerevan, Lisbon and San Francisco.

> Another Berlin march followed in 2025, after the third anniversary of the full-scale invasion.

And not just EU/US but moreso in other countries, where the migration wave was much bigger, eg Georgia and Armenia; after those protests many Russians were banned from entering Georgia after a visa run, yet others continued protesting anyway. Just google it for christ sake?

Also to me, as a Russian immigrant, protesting from another country doesn't make a lot of sense.

Anyway, at this point your comments in this thread are pure ragebait and not worth spending time replying to.

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Thank you. Getting out is one of the strongest forms of protest. At the same time, you likely still have family there and that alone would be a good reason to be careful. Even so, there are plenty of Russians abroad that still carry water for putin and those are despicable, more so because they clearly have access to all the information they could want and from their comfy new lives they call for more suffering for others.
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> Also to me, as a Russian immigrant, protesting from another country doesn't make a lot of sense.

Thought the same.

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Does the fear of being poisoned have an affect on Russian ex-pats from being very vocal?
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Are you kidding? E.g. in Berlin there are major protests every couple of months. They are not destructive (why would we destroy Germany‘s infra and police?), so maybe you do not hear about them as much. But they are quite numerous and regular. Ideally they should be in Russia AND destructive, but most normal people fled, yes.
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> have you seen mass protests against Russian aggression in EU/US by those who left?

What are you talking about? Just look at the amount of humanitarian visas getting by Russians. We like literally talking about hundreds per country on average (not hundreds of thousands, HUNDREDS). So participation in mass protests is like the fastest way to be deported back in Russia and get 8 years in jail.

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EU is not deporting anyone for peaceful protests in front of Russian embassies or consulates.
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Are you kidding or what?

EU is doing exactly that by denying humanitarian visas. Just look at absolute numbers of such visas.

For 90 percent of refugees from Russia if you participate in totally peaceful protest in front of Russian embassies, you will get yourself arrested, immediately deported, and will go straight to Russian jail for 10 years.

I did a quick search and what we get in example of Finland:

(https://meduza.io/en/news/2026/08/24/finland-has-deported-15...)

- 1k+ km land border with forests

- tens of thousands Russian survivors hunted by Putin crossing it

- only 186 per year granted asylum

- for everybody else any contacts with Finnish officials = deportation and jail

I think it is rather dangerous to peacefully protest in front of Russian embassies when near those embassies a lot of agents deployed to hunt Russians down and hand them down to Putin.

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> For 90 percent of refugees from Russia if you participate in totally peaceful protest in front of Russian embassies, you will get yourself arrested

Sorry, in which EU countries does participation in a peaceful protest get you arrested?

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Strangely, the article you quoted does not mention those "tens of thousands russian survivors" applying for asylum in Finland (as only hundreds do each year). Are you sure you got your numbers right?
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