Studies show that more than 200,000 people have left Russia since the beginning of the war in Ukraine. But the trend is not new.
Moscow – More and more people from Russia* left as a result of Ukraine War* her homeland for fear of repression, economic sanctions and lack of future prospects. Fleeing the invasion is the latest, but not the first, chapter in an exodus. Many Russians cannot bear to live under Putin’s rule.
According to the Arabic news channel Al Jazeera, at least 200,000 Russians have left their homeland for fear of being persecuted as “scum and traitors”. Alone in the USA* around 8,600 Russian asylum applications were made in the past few months. But not only the Far West is a destination for people from Russia to flee Wladimir Putin*.
Fleeing from Putin: People from Russia emigrate to Armenia or Georgia
For exiled Russians are Armenia, Georgia and the Turkey* become popular countries. The people did not just leave their homes because of the poor economic prospects in the face of the harsh sanctions imposed by the West. According to reports from the German Press Agency (dpa), young men in particular are afraid of being drafted into military service.
According to official figures, 75,000 people from Russia have now arrived in Armenia. As a dpa reporter reports, hotels, guesthouses and rental apartments in the capital Yerevan are fully occupied. Georgia is also considered a popular haven for people from Russia. As in Armenia, Russian is spoken there. By mid-March 2022, the authorities registered more than 30,000 entries from the neighboring country. According to the Georgian Interior Ministry, more than 17,000 Russians have left the country.
Because of the Ukraine war: people want to leave hysteria in Russia behind
Nana Grinstein, her husband and their 14-year-old daughter left behind the hysteria in Russia caused by the Ukraine conflict* was caused. “The world we’ve been building for years, which seemed unshakable, important and relevant, collapsed before my eyes like it was made of cardboard,” Grinstein told Al Jazeera. When the family arrived in Armenia in early March, they found that tens of thousands of other people from Russia had made the same journey before them, and they have since witnessed the arrival of many more, Al Jazeera reports.
At least 200,000 people from Russia have given up their homes and jobs and turned their backs on their homeland. They are “disgusted by the Kremlin’s attack on Ukraine and the largely enthusiastic reaction of their compatriots to the war,” writes the Arabic news channel.
Russia: Around five million people have emigrated since Vladimir Putin was elected
But the trend towards fleeing Putin is not new. The independent and non-political Russian online magazine “Takie Dela” recently published a study. According to this, around four to five million people emigrated from Russia between the years 2000, when Putin was first elected, and 2020. The figures were based on surveys, official national data from many countries and Russian statistics on the number of people who had deregistered their residence.
The Levada Center, an independent polling firm in Russia, found in March 4 polls that two-thirds of Russians feel “pride, inspiration or joy” about the war in Ukraine. Only 18 percent felt “anger, shame or depression” about the war. (Helena Gries)*fr.de is an offer from IPPEN.MEDIA.
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