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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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As told to Clea Skopeliti

‘I’m hanging between worlds’: couple who fled Russia toy with returning

Alanya City on Turkey’s central Mediterranean coast
Despite a lot of Russians in Alanya, Turkey, ‘there isn’t a sense of a tight-knit community, it feels like we are tiptoeing around each other’, says Anna. Photograph: Stuart Franklin/Getty Images

A few months after leaving Russia, I came back to Moscow. We’re still figuring out what to do. We’re considering moving back to Russia because we can’t afford living in Turkey, since the rouble has become much weaker.

But it’s not safe. There could be another mobilisation at any moment, and we worry my husband could be drafted because he has an engineering background.

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