It’s very difficult to catch someone right at the moment their life is falling apart — when they get sick, they lose their job, they started taking payday loans, and use alcohol to blunt the pain,[…] And it’s extremely difficult to help someone who’s already been on the street for a long time. People change dramatically out there — that’s what nobody realizes.

— Igor Antonov in Irina Kravtsova’s, It’s like I drew a door and disappeared through it, Meduza, 2021