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Reuters
Reuters
Business
By Alexander Marrow and Jake Cordell

Moscow barbers describe fight for survival as mobilisation cuts staff and customers

Barber Kirill Kryukov poses for a picture at the Citizen Barbershop where he works in Moscow, Russia October 19, 2022. REUTERS/Evgenia Novozhenina

Faced with a sharp drop in clients since Russia began mobilising men to fight in Ukraine, Moscow barber Artemiy Zolotorevsky is learning to cut women's hair to keep his business afloat.

With hundreds of thousands of men having joined the army or fled Russia in the last month, barbershops around Moscow are fighting for survival, three barbers told Reuters.

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