{"id":11507,"date":"2023-08-04T10:02:34","date_gmt":"2023-08-04T15:02:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/whia.us\/?p=11507"},"modified":"2023-08-04T10:05:21","modified_gmt":"2023-08-04T15:05:21","slug":"russias-top-talent-fleeing-to-other-countries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whia.us\/en\/11507\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia\u2019s top talent fleeing to other countries"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Young Russians are leaving their homeland in waves.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0Washington Post<\/em>\u00a0called the current exodus \u201ca tidal wave on scale with emigration following the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution and the Soviet Union\u2019s collapse in 1991.\u201d<\/p>\n

About\u00a01 million<\/a> Russians have left since 2022, including an estimated 100,000 IT specialists who comprise 10% of the technology sector.<\/p>\n

Alexandra Prokopenko, a Moscow native, worked for Russia\u2019s central bank in 2022. She enjoyed the job and running in Meshchersky Park, which reminded her of a giant forest.<\/p>\n

Following Russia\u2019s full-scale 2022 invasion of Ukraine, she\u00a0moved to Germany<\/a>. She misses Moscow but believes it offers little opportunities for her.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t think Russian authorities will admit it, but we\u2019ve seen a massive brain drain,\u201d Prokopenko told National Public Radio.<\/p>\n

\u2018No future\u2019<\/h2>\n

Many young, highly educated Russians who speak foreign languages and travel abroad decided they have a better future outside of Russia.<\/p>\n

One week after Russia started its war against Ukraine, Vladimir Belugin\u00a0quit<\/a>\u00a0his job at Yandex, a Moscow-based search engine company. He moved to Cyprus. \u201cI think there is no future,\u201d says Belugin of his remaining in Russia.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe war and emigration speaks to a whole generation of Russians who feel their future has been stolen from them,\u201d Timothy Frye, a Columbia University professor of political science and a Russia specialist, told ShareAmerica. \u201cThis class was hoping to be citizens of the world. Now that option is no longer available to them.\u201d<\/p>\n

Many reasons for leaving<\/h2>\n

Russian citizens who migrated to Armenia and Georgia cited three reasons for leaving, in order of importance, during\u00a0interviews<\/a>\u00a0(PDF, 1MB) Harvard University conducted November 2022 and January 2023:<\/p>\n