Of the hundreds of thousands of people who have left Russia since the war began, tens of thousands have relocated to Kyrgyzstan. ymatusik meets four of them for 1843 magazine
, a Georgian chicken stew. Although he’s not used to making his own meals – “back home, my wife did most of the cooking,” he admits – he drizzles canola oil into the pot and sizes up the ingredients with confidence.into Russia’s war in Ukraine, leaving behind his wife, a lucrative construction business, his apartment and his country house. For five months, he has shared a five-bedroom villa with three other Russian draft-dodgers in a village 10km south of Osh, Kyrgyzstan’s second-largest city.
But the prospect of being forced to carry arms, and possibly die, changed the calculus for these men – and for their wives and girlfriends, who pressed them to leave the country before they were handed draft notices. fine, but sometimes punishment is escalated to a police investigation or even criminal charges.)
An unusually brutal cold snap across Kyrgyzstan has caused temperatures to dip below -20°C at night. To keep the house warm, the men take turns shovelling coal from a pile in their driveway into a boiler in the basement. Anton – whose carpentry and engineering skills have made him the unofficial head of the household – once diverted water from a nearby stream into the house after the pipes froze so they could wash.
Anton sticks out in the conservative village, where he is typically accompanied by Marcel, his pure-bred, hairless Mexican dog who wears a black vest and orange boots to keep warm. Yet he’s adept at networking with the locals. He is planning on helping his landlady – who rents out picnic tables and barbecues on her property during the summer – turn her land into a “comfortable recreational area”.
Recently, he got a job with Glovo, a Spanish food-delivery company. Now Sasha finds himself doing the same sort of precarious and underpaid work in Kyrgyzstan that Central Asian migrants do in Russia: wearing a bulky yellow backpack, he delivers groceries and takeaways on a used bike. It takes him over half an hour to ride into Osh before he can start making deliveries; on most days, he only makes about 1,000 som from an eight-hour shift.
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