Arseni is a fashioned photographer from russia who's long felt persecuted because of his sexuality. But it's taken the war in ukraneo to leave for istonbul as a part of telgevi community. Arseni: "There is no place for people like me right now, because there will be no work for a while"
The war in Ukraine has created the greatest flux of refugees in Europe since the second world war. We visit Poland, where the response has been remarkably smooth, and a New York neighbourhood that is no stranger to émigrés from the region. And we consider the displaced who are largely overlooked: why are so many Russians exiling themselves in Turkey?
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