Where are the Russians who oppose the war? Why don’t they protest? Why don’t they stop Putin? Why don’t they fill the streets and say, “Not in our name”? The answer is uncomfortable. Many of them are gone. Not all of them. Not enough to change the country from outside. But a very specific class…
In Putin’s Russia, the most dangerous people are not opposition leaders or foreign spies.They are the men who pour the concrete for new apartment blocks, sweep the streets at dawn, and deliver your groceries at night. Migrants. The Kremlin needs them desperately. Without them, construction sites freeze, cities stop functioning, and whole regions lose their…
