This roundtable, jointly organized by Russland-Analysen, Belarus-Analysen, and Zentralasien-Analysen, brings together experts from and on Russia, Belarus and Tajikistan to discuss transnational repression as a lived, social, and political experience of exile. Rather than approaching transnational repression solely as a foreign policy instrument or a security issue for host states, the roundtable foregrounds how authoritarian states extend coercive practices beyond their borders and how these practices reshape the everyday lives, vulnerabilities, and forms of engagement of diasporas from the former Soviet space in Europe and North America. The roundtable combines a comparative discussion with first-hand research by scholars and activists who have themselves experienced exile. Across three cases—Russia, Belarus, and Tajikistan—it explores common mechanisms of transnational repression, such as criminal prosecution in absentia and misuse of international policing instruments. Elena Rusakova, a social psychologist and long-standing human rights activist forced into exile from Russia, presents findings from qualitative research among anti-war activists, former opposition deputies, human rights defenders, and independent journalists now living in Germany. Her contribution documents how transnational repression by the Russian state is compounded by precarious legal status and discrimination in host societies, leading to exhaustion, stress, and the withdrawal of some activists from public life as resources are diverted from advocacy to self-protection. Vasily Naumov shifts attention to Belarusian migrants in Poland and Lithuania, drawing on focus group research conducted since 2020. He examines how legal uncertainty, stigmatization by association, and uneven access to social rights shape patterns of adaptation, civic participation, and integration. The analysis cautions against interpreting declining public visibility as political disengagement, instead emphasizing quieter, everyday strategies of resilience that emerge under prolonged conditions of uncertainty. Khursand Kurramov focuses on the Pamiri diaspora from Tajikistan following the violent suppression of protests in the Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Region in 2021–2022. Based on an in-depth study of forced migration routes, asylum outcomes, and diaspora formation, the contribution demonstrates how the collective oppression on ethnoreligious grounds and transnational authoritarian outreach by the Tajik regime have produced a fragmented diaspora marked by repeated migration, legal liminality, and heightened social and psychological vulnerability. By placing these cases in dialogue, the roundtable advances a comparative understanding of transnational repression as a long-term social process that reshapes exile, integration, and political participation. It invites discussion on the implications for asylum policy, country-of-origin expertise, and the role of diasporas in European public life.