https://moscowmigrant.com/tags/emigration/Recent content in Emigration on MoscowMigrantHugoenFri, 13 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://moscowmigrant.com/posts/the-limits-and-duties-of-the-distant-observer/Fri, 13 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://moscowmigrant.com/posts/the-limits-and-duties-of-the-distant-observer/Living abroad does not disqualify a person from judging foreign affairs, and the demand that an émigré keep silent is simply censorship dressed up as humility. But honesty also imposes duties: deferring where one lacks competence, taking a side without lying, and accepting that this role is paid for in exile and blood.https://moscowmigrant.com/posts/there-is-no-other-beautiful-russia-war-forces-you-to-choose-a-side/Thu, 12 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://moscowmigrant.com/posts/there-is-no-other-beautiful-russia-war-forces-you-to-choose-a-side/In peacetime you can be against the regime and still vaguely "for the country." War abolishes that comfort. It poses one question—whose side are you on?—and there is no honest way to answer it while refusing to help the country being bombed.https://moscowmigrant.com/posts/collective-responsibility-is-real-but-guilt-is-always-individual/Fri, 06 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://moscowmigrant.com/posts/collective-responsibility-is-real-but-guilt-is-always-individual/An argument that the idea of collective guilt is a road to fascism and Bolshevism, while collective responsibility is genuine and unavoidable — and that only a careful, differentiated separation of criminals, combatants, propagandists, and the merely responsible makes justice possible.https://moscowmigrant.com/posts/the-disorientation-of-the-emigre-opposition/Wed, 04 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://moscowmigrant.com/posts/the-disorientation-of-the-emigre-opposition/The self-styled leaders of the Russian opposition abroad cannot say whose Crimea is, cannot admit it is Russia and not merely Putin waging the war, and inherit authority by marriage rather than struggle. Their disorientation is not an accident but the symptom of a movement with no roadmap to power.