Refusing Putin's war: The Russians fleeing to Kazakhstan | 101 East Documentary 

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This is not cowardice or betrayal, it’s intelligence. Why should these people give their lives because of an insane dictator’s ideology.

It is difficult too for us Kazakhstani people. Prices rised rapidly due to everything was exported from Russia before, also not enough accommodation... People here much poorer than russians . But we understand that one soldier who will not go to the war saves lives. Also there is a fear that not all people are friendly and respect our independence (((

also in thailand lots of people running away from putins war

WELL DONE PEOPLE OF KHAZISTAN FOR MAKING THESE RUSSIAN PEOPLE SO WELCOME...FROM LIVERPOOL UK 🇬🇧🌻❤

These Russians have my total respect, better to leave than fight for Vladmir Putler.❤💙💛

Such beautiful people. They've so much to offer the world. Why can't they have leaders who want to collaborate with other people in the world, instead of trying to destroy everyone else who disagree with them?

Молодцы! Жить надо своей жизнью, а не как дядя велит. Жить это здорово, даже если ты беженец, жизнь не оканчивается, зато свобода начинается😊

Recently in Bulgaria I see more and more cars with Russian and Belarusian registration plates…. You can notice them everywhere in the cities , in the villages around the country …

Kazakhstan: Land of the free, home of the brave.

Great documentary! Could feel the pain & suffering of these uprooted people, may God bless these innocent people with safety and happiness.

Good and intelligent people, all the best to them all...

It is not only sanctions that will cause the collapse of the Russian federation, it is the loss of hundreds of thousands of some of the most productive people. Not just a brain drain, a cultural and energetic draining of what keeps a society prosperous and alive. I can only hope that one day these people and their fellow citizens can go home to rescue and rebuild the shattered country that the dictatorship created. Thank you for the documentary Al Jazeera. Beautiful music brings hope at the end :)

let's hope the Russians get treated better in Kazakhstan than the Kazakhs (Tajiks, Kyrgiz etc) get treated by the Russians in Russia.

why die for the Imperialistic dreams of Putin.....? come on will you die for the dream of a 70 years old dictator?

as human being, they made the best decision. life is very short.

Reminds me of Vietnam War and USA Young men fled to Canada to dodge draft. The ones that went to war came back screwed up once they realized what the war was about. Good for these young men. How I wish all humans would refuse to pick up a gun and fight.

High quality documentary. Great reporting. I wish all these good Russian people to do well and be safe. My friend has also left Russia for Kazakhstan. Let's hope they all can go home soon. The Russian war mongering dictator can't hold out for much longer...fingers crossed. Cheers from the Netherlands.

I'm from Almaty and I'm gonna find out about the band and go to their concert! ❤

Thank you Al Jazeera English for presenting this You Tube video to the world - it is sad and terrible that the Russian Federation has taken the actions it is using against Ukraine now and causing so many of its young people to leave their homeland because they fear being caught in a mobilization and sent to Ukraine where they most probably could die. No human being should have to make the choice these people have made to leave their homes, their families but to them life is more important. Thank You.

Maybe calling them dissidents is too big a word for what they are as there is a difference between being against that war as a matter of principle and not wanting to get drafted to fight in it.

bright people refusing to kill are always welcomed❤

I really enjoyed this documentary It showed various look of Russians.……ordinary Russians, who don’t feel that it is their war and how they are settling down and what they are struggling with finding a new life. Thanks.!

I fled to Kazakhstan too, but I live in Astana now. I happens to know Dima personally, we lived in the same city, he is very talented and smart guy, im glad he is ok

17:58 "Solitary existence" is much better than living in a muddy trench fighting for a war you despised!

The Kazakhs are brave Turkic Muslim people who have fought against Russian colonialism for centuries. In 1916, they revolted against military conscription and they also revolted against the Atheist Soviets who tried to confiscate their livestock.

Thank you for making this documentary of real people!

An excellent documentary, thank you 👍

Very good work on this one, folks. Top quality material. Thank you for posting this.

It takes an enormous amount of courage to thwart a bully.

The feeling, after crossing the boarder out of Russia, is like you can breathe again, like you can fly.

Kudos to themmm... This is Putin's war, aint dying for other men's ego

The music was beautiful, such a treat to listen to just fabulous. It gives hope for the future that people will live, thrive and survive. They will overcome and live for those Russian soldiers killed in this senseless war. Well done documentary. Good luck to those who are lonely and displaced, you are not alone.

Takes courage... all of them an inspiration to do what is right.

It's sad that some older people have more allegiance to Putin than their own children. 15:00

Worst now. After 700,000 young people fleeing the last draft. Putin now sends draft notice by email which instantly puts you on a list that you can not leave the country.

As one of the refugees, wanna thank you so much for this video.

I love your courage and dedication/. I am full of admiration for you and hope and pray that you will eventually feel safe and settled with good friends, and family reunited where possible. Much love from UK.

Wonderful documentary! Thank you for this! May you all stay safe and happy.

In my youth, Canada was where the older kids went instead of the senior trip to Vietnam

My heart goes out to all the people and individuals caught up in these crazy times. We must help them in anyway we can whether it is with the opposition to the war or in small ways, helping groups and individuals in need due to their circumstances.

rip to my father who passed suddenly about 3 weeks after his final YOU KNOW WHAT. that being said I am glad he does not have to watch this war play out. my grandfather fled latvia when the russians burned the farm down . raped his sister, took his brother to the gulag, so what did grampa do? I am not 100% sure what he did to be honest I know he joined the army in latvia, he was captured on the front in France, he was dragging his best friend to surrender who was shot in his leg and he lost that leg they both became pow serving time in coal mine by sherwood forest , grampa always told me war time was something to be scared of and peace time was so sweet , I never really understood that. But now I see. he was a great man as my father was too. I wish for this war to end now but I see a pattern of increase, there are no massive peace protests happening rather the contrary .

Noble people.

loneliness , is it not the issue all refugees enconter ... at least they are welcome in kazakhstan . We fled to France from lebanon , in addiction to not knowing anyone and financial problems , we face racism at every level ...

Also in Indonesia lots of people running away from putin wars

Where's propagandist Solovjev's son Blondie, sitting nice and comfortable in London, while his dad says that dying young or being permanently maimed for russia is a good thing?

Putin is crazy I’d be leaving to

Thanks for posting

Thank you for this. Things like this have to be talked about to make the world understand that not all Russians think the same as putin.

In theory, if these men stay and start lives in Kazakhstan, it will be an economic boom for this country as young, healthy, educated, working age males join the workforce.

Journalism at its finest! Well done!

Many of Russian people go to Bali, unfortunately some of them bit wild and don't want to follow local rules/culture and made problems here but some other still ok.

The right path in life could be the hardest one but it is still the right one! Best wishes to these Russian guys who oppose this evil war which was launched by Putin and his thugs!

The evil dwarf’s other victims😢

Well done Al Jazeera, a topic I have been wondering about. Please keep following these brave people standing up to Putin.

Excellent coverage. Thanks.

Excellent documentary. Many tend to forget that Russians are people. While many support the war, more don't. They need our help and sympathy.

lots of life lost. And so many families are broken because of war. How may. People are in sadness. Why these kind of leaders destroy the future and hopes of these people. You will only feel happy when your at peace. May the power of God reign at everyone.

literally everyone says all their relatives support the war yet the title says "Putin's war"

Russians do not need visa when entering into Mexico as tourists and they can remain up to six months. Around 28,000 Russians entered México on February 2022 and apparently some got permits to work and stay longer.

Some are Asians - the population who have sent the most number of young men to die in this Ukraine invasion. So sad.

People want peace not war. Let them find freedom

I appreciate people who find a way that is better than the one what is present to them. Life is a choice not a compromise. Good or Bad will happen you are on your own decision.

We faced some waves of young Russian relocates here in Kazakhstan. Everyone in the world knows how hard it is to live now and raise children, but the rising prices and worsening of quality of life is nothing in comparison to perspective to be sent to the war and die for nothing, to be forced to kill people. That’s why people of Kazakhstan accepted these young men and even young families with children. Each of these men here means he is not in Ukraine, means less Ukrainians suffer from war and stay alive, and this is what we agree with and want to support Ukraine in this way.

I can tell the bassist in the band is a serious player. He plays a Modulus 6 string bass that is very expensive even here in the US. It must have cost a fortune in Russia. Now hopefully nobody in Russia will ever be able to get their hands on an instrument like that. I hope that all the good people and the brain power in Russia will abandon this dying empire and start fresh in a a place that isn't a dark and oppressive as Russia. Let Putin be stuck with the dregs of the society he has created.

Ooh my God! May these youth survive the putin era. Lord you rule the hearts of rulers on this earth. Stop this war and carry these youth thru it all. Keep them safe. Amen.

The people who call them traitors and cowards are those who can’t leave. When they are conscripted to war, they will be sorry they didn’t leave. Ukraine did not invade Russia .

What's the name of that group? Do they have music on Spotify? Because that kind of jazz is my kind of jam.

I live in Hungary. There are many young men from Ukraine, who ran away from the war at the very beginning, while it was still possible . Sometimes I think, that probably they wouln't even be alive by now, if they stayed. It is terrible even to think about it.

Except for different languages, I am amazed how similar other countries are to here. You would think we could do without war

Even Putin war supporters are now Running away, as the war reaches their doorstep 🤣

When narcissism runs a state

This is Carey from Michigan. I really enjoyed this video! Yes, I understand it's hard to leave your country, but I'm glad you have found a place to stay. How wonderful you are together in a band. Sounds good too! I wish you all the best in dealing with this horrible situation. You are *MY* Heroes !!!

They are escaping mobilization, not conscription. The latter is not synonymous with the former.

So sad, Russia is losing the best of its youth to battle deaths or emigration ....

The right decision to leave their country.... Well done. ..

Murder is wrong. Killing not in self defense is murder. Why would they want to murder people who they considered to be brothers and sisters? These are decent human beings in a terrible situation. The Time Has Come To Show People That Nobody is Nobody!

These people have finally learned the "social contract" was not with the ordinary people of Russia. The ordinary people have always been the currency, the payment - in the contract between the Kremlin, the oligarchs and the church; where they are allowed to become fat off exploiting the people, as long as they made the people do what the Kremlin wanted. Do these people care about those who were not able to flee? Who were too poor, because of these people's privilege, these people who benefitted from Putin's reign, who never spoke out against oppression and corruption until it affected them? Did they care about Chechnya, Georgia, Afghanistan? They knew what Putin was like. I was sympathetic to start, but then I remember there is a lot of "soft" pro-Russian/Putin/totalitarian programmes being put out by Al Jazeera. And I remember the coverage of widespread russian chauvinism and betrayal of the countries that took them in. While news which should be told, I think this is a part of that soft pro-russian agenda. I hope those people take their privilege back and give it back to the country that gave it to them at the expense of the poor - to sorting out the rats nest rather than consuming the freedoms which they have not worked for, the hard work of others..

Not one Russian even attempted to speak in the Kazakh language.

Good work Al Jazzera👍

They overflowed Kazakhstan we are really struggling because of high estate prices and job lack. Why they do not stay in their country and fight the regime instead overwhelming our economy

It must be hard to uproot your life and start over in a new country. Unfortunately, people the world over leave their countries due to political persecution and unrest. During the course of the Russian invasion into Ukraine, I have listened to many debates with historians and military experts. I am convinced that even if the Ukrainian Army defeats Putin, will that be the end of the war? Unless there is closure, Putin could build up a new army and attack Ukraine again in a year, or later. The only way to stop the war for the foreseeable future, is for the Russian people to rid themselves of the poisonous rhetoric and propaganda Putin has instilled into their brains, overthrow the totalitarian regime and rebuild their country for the people of Russia, not for the Oligarchs and Putin’s inner circle.

almost all of those russians have been fine with russia attacking countries. they only flee because they could face some consequences of their not doing anything attitude. You people have to understand what all former USSR countries tell: they are not against russia starting wars, they are simply egoistic and thinking about themselves and noone else.

very interesting video

All these Russians should be given visas to the West. We need more moral, hard working residents

Если хотя бы 20 процентов этих людей вместо побега в Казахстан вышли на Красную площадь в Москве, то война закончилась бы в тот же день. К сожалению большинство из этих людей не против войны,как таковой. Они просто спасают свои шкуры.

Yakshamash.... Very Naice...

Has Yugenia launched her YT channel yet, The point of no return? Bc I can't find it on RU-vid, & I searched in English & Russian. If so, can yall link her channel?

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I can see peaceful, cooperative and democratic Russia sometimes in future. It is in the hands of it's citizens whether and how they deal with the midget in high heels.

Al Jazeera did a great job!

War is for mad man only

i hate that there are also those Russians who fled NOT because they're anti-war but because they just don't want to be inconvenienced

Ones that flee are smart the ones that stay are willing to be ending up in the battlegrounds.

Please can you do a fellow up story especially with the young russian band they sound great.

After seeing the band Quintopole struggling to make money from their music - we would suggest that they might record some English songs and post them on RU-vid.

Kazakhstan, very nice!

So dangerous with this type of people helming the country

I'd be running from a MAD MAN too.

One mans delusional dreams of an empire destroys for ordinary people.