‘I had poked the bear right in the eye’: my fight to renounce my Russian citizenship

When Putin invaded Ukraine, he raised murder to the level of national policy. I felt guilt by association. And I had to act One morning in May 2025, I walked briskly down Bayswater Road along the northern edge of London’s Kensington Gardens until I reached the gates of the Russian embassy. Its formidable outer wall, already topped with razor wire, now had the additional protection of a crowd control barrier. But there was no crowd, just a lone man feebly protesting from the other side of the ...

By Sergey Radchenko