Drinking With the Russians Who Fled to Georgia
Angry Planet
Matthew Gault
4.3 • 882 Ratings
🗓️ 13 October 2022
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
In an attempt to shore up its rapidly crumbling position in Ukraine, Moscow has partially mobilized the people. In response, many of those people are fleeing. But where can they go? Russia has spent the last 100 years bullying, invading, and killing its immediate neighbors. Places like Georgia are seeing a huge influx of Russian military aged males. How do the Georgians feel about this? It’s complicated.
With us today to talk about this is James Jackson. Jackson is a freelance journalist in German and Central and Eastern Europe. He was in Tbilisi, the capitol of Georgia when Russians fleeing mobilization started to show up. And he’s here with us today to talk about it. It’s the subject of his latest in Time: Why a Fresh Russian Exodus to Georgia is So Polarizing.
Here’s a link to the video Jackson describes in the show.
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| 0:27.0 | Frankly, that seems to be the problem. |
| 0:32.0 | Welcome to Angry Planet. |
| 0:34.0 | Hello, |
| 0:37.0 | Welcome to Angry Planet. I'm Matthew Gault. And I'm Jason Fields. |
| 0:47.0 | In an attempt to shore up its rapidly crumbling position in Ukraine, |
| 0:50.5 | Moscow has partially mobilised the Russian people. In response, many of those people are fleeing. |
| 0:56.0 | But where can they go? Russia has spent the last hundred years bullying, invading, and killing its immediate neighbors. |
| 1:01.0 | In places like Georgia are seeing a huge influx of Russian |
| 1:04.2 | military-aged males. And how do the Georgians feel about this? Well, it's complicated. |
| 1:10.0 | With us today to talk about this is James Jackson. Jackson is a freelance journalist in |
| 1:14.3 | Germany and Central and Eastern Europe. He was in the capital of Georgia recently |
| 1:18.1 | when Russians were fleeing mobilization and he's talked to quite a few of them as well |
| 1:22.2 | as the local Georgians. |
| 1:23.5 | He's here with us today to talk about it. |
| 1:25.5 | It's the subject of his latest in time. |
| 1:27.5 | Why a fresh Russian exodus to Georgia is so polarizing. |
| 1:31.5 | Sir, thank you so much for coming under the show and talking with us about this. |
| 1:35.0 | My pleasure, thanks for having me. |
| 1:37.0 | So your question was how do the Georgians feel about it? |
| 1:40.0 | I would say they're not particularly happy to be honest. |
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