Posted on 11/03/2023 4:32:52 PM PDT by canuck_conservative
"A serious obstacle to achieving technological independence is the shortage of qualified scientific, engineering and labor personnel. The total number of personnel engaged in research and development in Russia has decreased by a quarter over the past 20 years," Patrushev said at a retreat in the city of Tomsk, in Siberia, Russia.
A large number of scientists and academic staff are believed to have fled the country after Russian President Vladimir Putin launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, and again after he announced a partial mobilization of the population last fall.
Hundreds of thousands of Russians fled across the border to neighboring countries, including Georgia, Finland, Kazakhstan and Mongolia to avoid being conscripted.
In May, the vice president of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Valentin Parmon, was cited by state news agency Interfax as saying that Russia has lost around 50,000 scientists over the past five years, and that no other country has seen such a fall in the number of workers in the scientific field in that timeframe....
The newspaper reported that half of the Russian scientists who left the country publicly opposed Putin's invasion of Ukraine, signing an open letter against the war....
The British Defense Ministry said in September 2022, days after Putin's partial mobilization decree, that Russia is likely facing a "brain drain" and a labor shortage amid a mass exodus of people.
"When combined with those reservists who are being mobilized, the domestic economic impact of reduced availability of labor, and the acceleration of 'brain drain' is likely to become increasingly significant," it said in an intelligence report....
(Excerpt) Read more at newsweek.com ...
Western countries keep getting new blood thru immigration, but nobody is immigrating to Russia
So many scientists, and so many extra wide, bar free, windows in abandoned skyscraper buildings that the poor clumsy gentlemen ‘accidentally’ fall out of!
Russia’s population decline is accelerating “thanks” to Putin’s war.
H-1B is killing domestic STEM student interest. We get people from all over the world the have NO LOYALTY to the USA. If you want to know why Twitter was in bed with FedGov? H-1b.
Immigration sucks. All of it.
For every high IQ person we get, there’s dozens of low IQ savages.
This is the fundamental destruction of our country and yours.
We will become North Brazil, and it won’t matter whether Ukraine is “free”.
Stop all immigration for 50 years. Immigration is BS.
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We will (are?) experiencing the same decline. We hire based on DEI and not merit. We hire foreigners (who can’t get a clearance) over our own. We keep diluting and replacing our educational system. We keep shooting ourselves in the foot claiming we are improving things. Dim future.
fail.
I must confess I don’t think of Tomsk in November as the place for a retreat.
A number of years ago I was visiting a university engineering department with a friend of mine. On one wall there were pictures of all the petroleum engineering students. There were 40 students.
One was American. One was Polish (!). 38 were Chinese.
I wish I were kidding. But I’m not.
That’s ok Pute. Dr. Nefario left Gru too…
No worries. The Defense industry needs near parity between enemies. They’ll leak the tech if they must to keep Russia competitive.
“Russia has lost around 50,000 scientists over the past five years, and that no other country has seen such a fall in the number of workers in the scientific field in that timeframe....
The newspaper reported that half of the Russian scientists who left the country publicly opposed Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, signing an open letter against the war....”
Fail, I second that.
I’ll bet that Isabel is Will Stewart’s “friend with benefits”...
"Hey scientists -- Russia called -- they're running out of you!"
She’s an Epoch Times, Falun Gong babe. It’s no wonder our resident Canadian is attracted.
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