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March 27, 2022, 3:38 PM +07 By Phil McCausland LONDON — Daria Leshchenko said a close friend, a progressive in Moscow who fought for women’s rights in Russia, doesn’t speak to her anymore. Despite their hourslong discussions about their home country’s invasion of Ukraine over the I am a baseball mom because my kid’s passion is worth my time shirt besides I will buy this past few weeks, Leshchenko said she was shocked when her friend recently posted a message of support for President Vladimir Putin on social media and stopped responding. Leshchenko, 24, works in London now but kept in touch with peers prior to the war. Since the invasion began, those dynamics have changed and relationships have started to unravel, she said. “I don’t have many friends back in Russia to talk to anymore after these weeks, and I had plenty of them before,” she said. That is a challenge for a growing number of Russian expatriates living in the West. In the wake of Putin calling Russians who live abroad “scum” and “traitors” in a speech this month, conversations they manage to have with relatives and friends back home have grown tense, or they avoid the topic of the war altogether. Numerous Russians have fled the country as a result of the invasion and the crackdown, probably for good, but the views of those still in Russia have hardened in support of the Kremlin, as years of anti-West propaganda get cemented in the country’s new reality. Leshchenko said talking to friends back home is increasingly difficult as the Kremlin takes further hold of the media and lines of communication. Those who haven’t fled the country refuse to talk to her about the conflict, blame the West and the U.S., or say they may not like the war, but they feel they must support the regime and the military. Another friend of Leshchenko’s in Russia, who never shared an interest in politics before, asked
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