[GSlob]

Well, judging from what I heard from my few contacts there - those who can are (and those who cannot would like to be) voting with their feet. While I got the ef out of there 24 years ago, these people are more up to date - and they do not express any optimism, either in social or in economic prospects of the society. I know some of these people well enough to trust their judgment on this subject, independently of what I knew at my time there or could deduce from theoretical considerations. Mark Steyn's article in its first half [www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1399019/posts] is mostly on the mark and squares with what I've heard, although he does occasionally go for a rhetorical flourish.

[Destro]

Return of the Jews: For decades the story of Russia's Jews has been one of fear and flight to Israel. Now many are coming home.

Once desperate to leave, now Jews are returning to Russia, land of opportunity

http://www.google.com/search?q=jews+Russia+returning&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&start=0&sa=N