Pyotr Trofimov (name changed) had only been in Germany for three weeks when he received the news that his father had passed away in St. Petersburg. Had it not been for Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine , he would have still been in Moscow and not in the Bavarian city of Bayreuth. Various estimates suggest that between 650,000 and 1 million people left Russia after the full-scale war in Ukraine began in early 2022. Not all of them planned to stay abroad long-term, and even fewer could have