With Vladimir Putin’s military adventure in Ukraine going poorly, the recent mass mobilization of young men has sent Russians fleeing the motherland for safer havens. The Spectator UK’s John Lloyd talks to two members of an earlier Russian diaspora for their take on “the many tragedies of Russia.”

A Spite That Knows No Bounds
Gratingly awful global scold Greta Thunberg’s latest stunt is to turn on her own motherland. Sweden has been very good to her, but the former social-democratic paradise’s mugging by the realities of uncontrolled immigration do not sit well with the keffiyeh-clad rabblerouser. “For years, Sweden took more asylum seekers per capita than any other country in Europe,” writes Fredrik Karrholm in The Spectator. “Now asylum numbers have fallen to their lowest level since 1985.”


