[SpeedyInTexas]

"Over 3.8 million Russians left from January to March this year, according to the Federal Security Services’ own estimates. Some left for work or travel reasons, but many also left because of Russia’s war on Ukraine. Other estimates put the number of people who left because of the war at 300,000 to 3.8 million. The exact number is still unknown. A recent survey from non-governmental organization OK Russians says that the average age of Russians who left the country after Feb. 24 is 32 years old, while 80% of them have a higher education degree."

[JonPreston]

Over 3.8 million Russians left from January to March

Each one of them a card carrying Eurasianist missionary, looking to spread the gospel.

[Antioch]

We are sooooo WINNING.….

[unixfox]

Don’t come here, we are already being invaded by 156 other countries.

[entropy12]

That is not unique to Russia. Immigrants from India in United States consist of doctors, business people, engineers, scientists, lawyers, accountants etc. Those are brightest people from India and that ethnic group has the highest income in US compared to any other group, including all other Asian immigrants, all European immigrants, and US born whites. The bright people are confident in their abilities and venture out to lands where better opportunities exist.

[BobL]

“Russia’s best and brightest are leaving the country in record numbers.”

I thought the government PREVENTED them from leaving?

[The_Media_never_lie]

Russian soldiers are still barbarians. Have not changed a bit since WWII.

[Attention Surplus Disorder]

3.8 million people emigrating is a pretty big number, to my way of thinking. Obviously, not all of them are high-tech creative geniuses, but certainly a tremendous amount of talent is being lost.

For a historical parallel, consider the number of Jewish and other scientists who fled Nazi Germany in the mid 30s and emigrated to the US, most notably to work on the Manhattan project. Now there is no way on Earth that Nazi Germany could have produced an atomic bomb, but the US, lacking that brain power could have lost a year and a half to two years producing the bomb.

[jdsteel]

I support the immigration of 25 year old Russian female dancers.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

“Educated people who understand the real situation are leaving the country; selling their houses, making different documents, and learning foreign languages,”

I wonder what "making different documents" means.

[C210N]

Yahoo ^ | 20-AUG-2022 | Yvonne Lau

America-first Patriots are at war with the Deep State, and their various outlets that spew the Deep State line (i.e., Yahoo).

[bert]

Why?

Because Russia isn’t

[Brian Griffin]

There are about 25 million ethnic Russians living in various former CCCP republics not in the Russian Federation.

There are Uzbeks, Ukrainians, etc. living in the Russian Federation.

It’s sort of like born New Yorkers living in LA.

[rrrod]

I know a few Russians here in S Florida and they have been getting family out of Russia for years now.

[PIF]

At least 3600 had found their way across our southern border early in the year. How many now? Open question with over 5 million people from all around the world pouring across our border as of August 20 since Biden took office.

[x]

But like countless other young educated Russians, Sonya, who asked that only her first name be used, packed her bags and fled the country after Russia invaded Ukraine on Feb. 24.

What's with "fled the country"? She left.

[dfwgator]

A couple of my favorite Russian Vloggers have left, for places like Georgia.

[cranked]

And yet, the Ukrainian military is getting decimated more and more daily. ZelenskyyIdiot has managed to survive 10+ internal assassination attempts - much love for that comedian, yep. Ukraine economy in shambles. Ukraine steadily running low on tanks, planes, artillery, manpower, ammunition. Ukraine spends 8 years building the best defensive line in Europe only to have the Russians wreck it in weeks. I could go on but yeah, the end result is and will be the same: Ukraine is losing the war/conflict that the West and the US created, instigated and abetted.

[Widget Jr]

3.8 million out of 144.1 million is 2.6% of Russia's population. Those who can afford to leave are more likely to be educated or have marketable skills. That is a significant labor and brain drain in just 5 months. Add up the military losses, the long term effects on the Russia economy, because short term manipulations come back to bite in the long term no matter what anyone says, and the best and brightest getting out.

Look at the long term, which means not the next few days on Twitter or Telegram. Don't pretend how Russia taking a few farmhouses or hectares of farmland is a big deal. Day by day Russia's position is getting more precarious, while Ukraine is getting stronger.

Whenever a HIMARs blows up a command post or ammunition depot, Russian state TV says the HIMARs were wiped out in response. How many times has that happened? Its is called "vranyo". Russia lies, lies badly, and does not care what anyone thinks about it.

Russia can not, is not, and will not win in the long term.

[McGruff]

Boy the propaganda is getting deep.

[dforest]

They are leaving in order to go west to find communism again.