More and more Russians have entered the U.S since the war in Ukraine which started on the 22nd of February 2022. Most of them are moving due to them not believing in what Vladimir Putin and his army are doing in Ukraine. According to an article from CNN by Rosa Flores on February 20, 2023, Mikhail Manzurin, a Russian man that moved into the U.S, said, “I realized that my country was doing something wrong”. He also said when Russia was drafting soldiers that, “I don’t want to kill (the) innocent people of Ukraine. They’re protecting their territories. They’re protecting their homes. And I don’t want to be a part of this invasion,”

Mikhail Muzurin said he was scared of moving to the U.S because Russian propaganda said the Americans are selfish people who don’t care about anyone else. For example, a Russian company released an ice cream called “Little Obama”, and according to Reuters, U.S officials were not happy about it. Also according to that article a certain U.S. official who didn’t want to be named said, “While I haven’t seen this particular product for sale, we are disappointed by the media-driven anti-Americanism that has become so prevalent in Russia over the past few years, particularly when it takes on a discriminatory or racist bent” Even after all of the propaganda made by Russia, Mikhail decided to complete his move to America in late 2022.According to an article by Miriam Jordan and Eileen Sullivan on the NewYorkTimes, Iuliia Shuvalova and Sergei Ignatev, a couple from Russia, went on a “vacation” however they decided to not return to Russia. The article says, “Like Ms. Shuvalova and Mr. Ignatev, many of the newly arriving Russians are supporters of the jailed Russian opposition leader Aleksei A. Navalny and said they no longer felt safe in their homeland.” Also on that NewYorkTimes article Ms. Zadykyan said, “Politically, the times in Russia are worse than during Stalin; people are living in terror,” and “Economically, there is no money. People feel they can’t survive.”