Human rights activist Anastasya Shevchenko is in Vilnius, Lithuania. She oscillates between doubts about her country's ability to change and hopes.

"We are all people waiting for the moment to go home to rebuild," she says. Her children, one enrolled in school and the other in university, have integrated perfectly and have no intention of returning to Russia. "I have the feeling that this is the case for many Russian emigrants here," says the human rights activist, sitting on the terrace of a Lithuanian restaurant.