Staunton, July 18 – Some of the Russians who left their homeland after the start of Putin’s expanded war in Ukraine or when the threat of general mobilization appeared greatest have returned, but according to the independent Bell news agency, some 650,000 still remain abroad, a figure far lower than many other estimates have suggested.
That figure is also far less than the millions who left after 1917, during World War II or immediately after the collapse of the USSR; but it is larger than the number of Jews and ethnic Germans who left in the final decades of Soviet power (thebell.io/issledovanie-the-bell-ob-emigratsii-iz-rossii-novyy-biznes-volozha-i-kak-investoram-vospolzovatsya-snizheniem-stavok and rusmonitor.com/razvilki-relokaczii-dorogi-pyatoj-volny.html).
This new diaspora consists overwhelmingly of young professionals who are not interested in taking part in any political struggle but only with pursuing their own personal goals. There are exceptions, of course, but they are just that and so this wave is likely to play a much smaller role politically in the West and in Russia than its predecessors.
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