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Eurasianet (23 September 2022)

Daniyar Moldabekov

No sooner had Russian President Vladimir Putin announced a “partial mobilization” to get Russia’s flagging invasion of Ukraine back on track than it was like February 24 all over again. 

Russians again are descending on neighbors in the former Soviet region at pace. This week’s mobilization order has seen long, slow moving queues form at Russia’s borders and spiking air fares for flights leaving the country – just like the weeks following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

But if the first wave of Russian immigration to Kazakhstan was characterized by craft beer-swilling hipster consultants, IT workers and objectors to Putin’s war, now it is literally anybody who doesn’t want to be at the front. 

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