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In just six months Katya, a young Russian artist and anti-war activist, went from being unable to imagine leaving Russia to being forced into emigration. “There isn’t anyone abroad to welcome me,” the artist and activist told The Moscow Times in August 2022. “And I don't want to fight [from another place]… when I’m here in Russia, I see that there are still people here who are against the war.” But after the police knocked on her door for the third time in the middle of the night, Katya decided it was time to leave. “A relative persuaded me to leave as quickly as possible,” she wrote in February 2023, “otherwise I would have ended up in jail.” The Moscow Times has been following four Russian artist-activists who are now living abroad.