Alla Pugacheva and Maxim Galkin

Since the invasion of Ukraine, several Russian celebrities have decided to leave their native country. This is for example the case of popstar Alla Pugacheva, extremely well known in Russia, who is building a new life in Israel with her comedian husband Maxim Galkin.

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Ivan Urgant

Talk show host Ivan Urgant (right), one of Russia’s entertainment TV stars, is also in Israel, according to a tweet from NEXTA_TV. He is an actor, musician and producer. His most famous roles in cinema are Boris in the series “Yolki” and Danila in “Lucky Trouble”.

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Zemfira et Renata Litvinova

The singer of the rock group Zemfira and her close friend, actress Renata Litvinova, are in Paris. Zemfira even released an anti-war clip in the context of his country’s invasion of Ukraine.

Photo : Denhud / Wikimedia

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Kirill Serebrennikov

Kirill Serebrennikov is one of Russia’s leading theater and film directors and has won numerous international awards. He has recently been spotted in Paris and Berlin. Despite numerous disputes with the authorities and two years of house arrest, Kirill Serebrennikov remained in Russia until the invasion of Ukraine.

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Lyudmila Ulitskaya

The writer Lyoudmila Oulitskaïa now gives interviews in her apartment in Berlin. This 79-year-old woman left her native country without knowing if she would ever return there. According to DW, she said: “I’m fine – although leaving the country means I now have to learn to live in completely different circumstances. In a way, it’s a rebirth into a new life.”

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Yuri Dud

Influencer and filmmaker Yuri Dud now works from Istanbul. He ended up on the Russian Justice Ministry’s ever-growing list of so-called “foreign agents”. The ministry had added eight new people to this list, including Yuri, one of the country’s most popular YouTubers.

Photo: @вДудь / YouTube

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Olga Smirnova

Ballet dancer Olga Smirnova of the Bolshoi Theater has found a new job in Amsterdam. According to information from the BBC, the star said he was ” once morest this war with every fiber of my soul”. She also has family ties to those affected: her grandfather was Ukrainian.

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Kantemir Balagov

Acclaimed filmmaker and two-time Oscar nominee Kantemir Balagov was seen in Georgia, where Russian passport holders can stay for up to a year without a visa. The most famous works of this 31-year-old man are the films “Closeness” and “Beanpole”.

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Kira Kovalenko

Another newcomer to Georgia: filmmaker Kira Kovalenko. Last year, she won the Un certain regard prize at the Cannes Film Festival for “Les Fists déserrés”.

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Monetochka

Singer Monetochka left Russia for Lithuania. With rapper Noize MC, she gave concerts in many European cities and donated the proceeds to the Siepomag charity fund, which helps Ukrainian refugees.

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Maria Alyokhina

Maria Alyokhina, leader of the P*ssy Riot association, escaped from Moscow disguised as a food courier to escape the police who were raiding her friend’s home. She was regarding to be sent to a penal colony following protesting the war in Ukraine. She joined his girlfriend and member of the P*ssy Riot association, Lucy Shtein, in exile.

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Chulpan Khamatova

Chulpan Khamatova, actress and founder of the ‘Podari Zhizn’ (Giving a Life) foundation, also left following fearing she would go to jail, according to US Renew News. In an interview with journalist Ekaterina Gordeeva, Khamatova spoke regarding the new criminal code in relation to the “discrediting” of the army. She was afraid of being put behind bars following saying that the Russian army “forces black people to be called white”.

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Ivan Dryomin

Rapper Face, aka Ivan Dryomin, is a Russian rap star whose songs are often quite explicit, which, as one can imagine, is not to the liking of conservative authorities in Russia. His concerts were canceled, then he withdrew because he had called Russia a “third world country”. He is now blacklisted and risks being arrested in Russia if he ever returns from his new country, Poland. There, he performs on stage and raises funds for Ukrainian refugees, even apologizing to them for the actions of Vladimir Putin.

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Lilia Gildeyeva

According to the Mirror, Lilia Gildeyeva handed in her resignation letter to Gazprom-Media’s NTV channel, where she had worked for 15 years, and then fled the country. Since then, she has received daily threats and insults. In an interview with blogger Ilya Varlamov, the TV presenter said: “At first I left, I was afraid that they wouldn’t let me go, then I wrote my resignation letter.”

Photo : NTV

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Andrei Loshak

Andrei Loshak is a famous Russian investigative journalist. Loshak didn’t want to get caught in Russia for fear of a new martial law making it impossible to leave the country. So he flew to Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia.

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Galina Yuzefovich

Galina Yuzefovich, a renowned literary critic, said that people who leave Russia are only those who are able. A “privilege”, she added. Yuzefovich expressed sympathy for those forced to stay. For her part, she fled to southern Turkey with her family.

Phot o: Instagram @Galinayuzefovich

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Anton Dolin

Famous critic and public figure Anton Dolin previously said he would never leave Russia. But he changed his mind, reports the DW. He now lives in Latvia, and has a firm opinion of his country of origin. He said: “I now see my departure as a form of personal surrender. Everything I did for three decades, a kind of cultural resistance to those in power, has now lost all meaning. My mission in the life – positioning Russia as part of Europe – seems to have failed.”

Photo : Instagram @critic-dolin

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