Russia has ‘only’ 100 million citizens. 36 million will move? I don’t think so. Immigration from a place other than China. Welfare recipients from the U.S. could take their EBT cards with them for more than 5 years b4 getting cut off.
There’s more. Move the Peace Corps and Americorp over there to set it up.
Putin should offer that “free Land” to all the Syrian refugees he can find and put them there. (Chances are most would freeze to death the first year.) How inconvenient.