I have something to add on the West desperate attempts to romatisise russians who are "Anti-war". I feel the problem lies in the fact that they see russians from their own cultural and virtue standpoint. They can't grasp that russians culture is completly different and rarely makes them good people. I'm not saying that it is an 100%, but I noticed that those russians, who are somewhat decent human being, try to leave Russia the first chance they get.
The problem with the "refrugee" russians are that that are against Putin but still have imperialistic viewpoint. They don't necessarily see the war as bad since Ukraine is "theirs" to begin with.
What annoys me the most, that when countries that understand russian mentality and culture actually pushes back against the "innocent russian" sentiments. When they start to questions their real motives, the West are outraged about it. Example, one of "independent" russian media outlets fled to a Baltic country. They were fined and banned after few months as they were violating the regulations and requirements the country has for their media, as well as "appeal to both slides" approach. They of course tried to act as victims, thinking they were entitled special treatment. The country of course recieved public outraged from the West, that demanded that they give them the special treatment.
Are you talking about Dojd, per chance? If I recall, the special treatment in question was that they expected everyone in Latvian court to speak russian, not latvian, and did not even bother to hire a translator, considering none spoke latvian, the language of the country they lived in (a typical behavior of an imperialistic culture).
And the violated regulations were not some bureocratic bullshit, but included showing the map of russia that included Crimea; and direct calls to support russian army
By the way, look how cheekily the moscow times chose to present this information :)
Oh no! What horrid oppression of free speach! Russophobia galore! You cannot speak the unbiased truth in Europe anymore! We know that most people don't read past the title
Well, according to their website, they are in the Netherlands now, and somehow I don't think the Netherlands will care much about the distilled version of ru propaganda they are translating.