Posted on 08/16/2018 11:39:23 AM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
For decades, Russia has suffered a brain and youth drain: According to federal statistics agency Rosstat, more than 300,000 people left the country in 2016. A recent survey conducted by the state-funded pollster VTsIOM shows that 1 out of 10 Russians want to leave the country.
Notably, one out of four of those questioned in the poll could name a relative or acquaintance who had moved away from Russia in recent years.
Young Russians were especially keen to move: Among those aged 18 to 24, almost one-third (31 percent) of respondents said they wanted to leave the country.
VTsIOM said that more than a quarter of those who thought of leaving had already begun preparing for the move by “collecting information about the destination country.” Twenty percent are learning a foreign language.
The head of research at VTsIOM, Stepan Lvov, said it would be wrong to interpret the figures as a sign Russians wanted to “flee the horrible Russian reality.”
“It is a testament to our youth’s openness towards other countries, and could even be interpreted as a challenge to the outer world,” he was cited as saying in an online analysis alongside the poll results.
“You don’t want anything to do with us? We will come to you ourselves — look at your people, and show who we are.”
A similar poll conducted recently by the independent Levada Center put the number of Russians considering emigration at 15 percent.
Muscovites were especially keen to move, the pollster found, with one out of five capital city residents thinking of packing their bags.
The top three destinations were Germany (16 percent), the United States (7 percent) and Spain (6 percent).
(Excerpt) Read more at themoscowtimes.com ...
I hear this all the time from Russians here...trying to get family members out. Not easy anymore from what I understand. Young people are leaving for Europe it seems
All beautiful Russian women should be permitted to emigrate to my state.
Wow.
That’s like half of Russia.
I’m for letting young educated aesthetically pleasing Russian women into the country.
That’s why we put a beauty pageant owner in the whitehouse!!!
“Is old Russian proverb: ‘Go West, young man!’”
-Peripetchikoff (One, Two, Three)
Interesting. I would have guessed Canada as one of the top three.
I say bring them all here. They are white, mostly Christian and they assimilate in one generation.
“1 in 10 Russians want to Emigrate”
Probably 7 in 10 Illinoisians want to emigrate.
If anything bad should happen to Trump, I’m inclined to trade places.
Yeah. The hateful, racist, bigoted United States of America. But God Almighty doesn’t everyone want to come here. So Russkies want to go to Germany? Why? They’ll only really be trading one rapidly evolving Muslim caliphate for another.
That is as lot less than the percentage of population that’s wants to leave NYS, NJ, IL, CA and CT...
They can replace some of them with white South Africans.
I’m guessing that you have never lived near large groups of Russians.
I have.
No thanks!
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I’d like to hear her balalaikas ringing out!
Not to mention all of the russian criminals that we accepted.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_mafia
Probably a higher percentage here, considering how much the Left hates this country
Yep! A VERY violent,arrogant group.
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I’d gladly accept young Russians over a lot of the 3rd world trash we get. I don’t say there would be no problems with assimilation but I think it would go pretty smoothly overall.
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