True.. I spent one week in Phuket just a couple of months ago. Stayed in just one resort in Bang Tao. A lot of Russians in there staying long term renting houses. Kids going to International schools. There are restaurant areas only serving Russian food.
Every morning around 6.30 we go for a beach walk and have a dip. Andaman sea is quite warm in the mornings. I meet the same people most of the time and one day a couple of families came and had a chat with us. They were Russian. Conversation was from where are we from and continued everytime we met them. They told us that they were very long term residents.
Said that they are in Thailand just because of that moron Putin. They said all who had money and intelligent had to leave the country because of this moron and the idiots who are around him.