One measure of the impact Vladimir Putin’s war in Ukraine and his mobilization of men to fight there has had offered by Andrey Zubov who says that the number of Russians who have left because of Putin’s actions now is greater than the number who left after the Bolshevik revolution.
And that means, the Russian scholar at Massaryk University in the Czech Republic says, that the actual impact of the new emigration is even greater still because the total population of the country under Moscow’s control is lower (russian.eurasianet.org/чем-грозит-россии-утечка-мозгов-и-смогут-ли-власти-побудить-людей-вернуться).
Moreover, Zubov continues, “the present wave is radically different from the economic emigration of the 1990s.” It is a vote against the policies of the regime because those who are leaving are among…
