My life as a Russian exile in Paris: 'What in Moscow could earn you many years in prison is here just one way to spend a Saturday afternoon'
- Posted on July 27, 2026
- By Le Monde
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In brief
Elizaveta Osetinskaya, a Russian journalist forced to flee her homeland following the 2022 invasion of Ukraine, documents her transformative experience living as a political exile in Paris. Through personal narratives and street protest observations, she contrasts the stark differences between authoritarian repression in Moscow and the democratic freedoms enjoyed in France, revealing how activities considered dangerous crimes in Russia become ordinary expressions of civic participation in Western Europe.
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My life as a Russian exile in Paris: 'What in Moscow could earn you many years in prison is here just one way to spend a Saturday afternoon'
'A Russian Woman in Paris' (5/6). Journalist Elizaveta Osetinskaya, who has taken refuge in France since Russia's invasion of Ukraine in 2022, shares four vignettes of protests in the streets of the French capital.
