But when he told her he was Russian, she knew he wouldn’t be. “I wish I hadn’t asked him,” said Schenova, 52, who fled to Turkey in March. “He was such a good dancer.” Five months since Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the Turkish coastal resort of Antalya has accidentally become a testing ground for a strange social experiment: what happens when thousands of Russians and Ukrainians flock to the same, relatively small, place? Kaputas Beach in the Kas district of Antalya, the seaside resort in Turkey that now hosts Ukrainians and Russians, many of them on tourist visas TALIP DEMIRCI/GETTY IMAGES The answer, it seems, is a cold war, where both sides maintain an icy detachment towards each other.
