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Huge numbers of Russians who have fled the country amid the full-scale invasion of Ukraine are turning to a website set up to try to help them. The Ark is a project founded two and a half years ago by Anastasia Burakova, a Russian woman who left her homeland shortly before the invasion as her organisation faced intense intimidation from the authorities. It now assists people with accommodation, as well as legal and psychological help. Anastasia Burakova spoke to us in Perspective.