"New Wave" of emigration: the press found out where and why the Russians are leaving

According to the results of 2014, experts note the growth of emigration moods among representatives of the Russian middle class. Some of the experts believe that we are talking about a new wave of Russian emigration, the main difference from the previous ones is that all current immigrants decided to move abroad after March 2014, when the Crimea was joined by Crimea, writes DW-depend .

“These people do not want to leave, they emigrate forcedly, under the pressure of political events taking place in the country,” the site consultant Sergei Kuznetsov told the site, which created the community “Suitcase. Station. Where?”, It already has more than three thousand readers.

The basis of the clientele of Kuznetsov is the Russian middle class: highly qualified workers, representatives of free professions, and owners of small businesses. According to him, new emigrants scares the uncertainty of the future development of Russia - both political and economic.

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Among Kuznetsov’s clients, three areas dominate. The first is countries traditionally loyal to visitors: Canada, Australia, USA. The second direction is the countries of old Europe, such as Germany or France. The third is Eastern Europe, countries with a related Russian Slavic culture, which at the same time were able to introduce the main European standards in themselves.

The easiest way to change the place of residence for programmers and other specialists, whose work is not directly related to local culture or with some special legal restrictions, was told to reporters by the director of the MBA program "Strategic Management of Human Resources" by the Higher School of Higher School of Management Ekaterina Varga.

So, for example, last year a number of IT industry workers left Russia. Following the founder of the VKontakte social network, Pavel Durov, who, shortly before leaving, complained about pressure from the authorities, the founders of the Planner 5D interior design, Alexei Sheremetyev and Sergey Nosyrev, left the Russian interior design. However, they noted that they did not have such problems as Durov.

In addition, Game Insight mobile devices also moved from Moscow to Vilnius. The producer of the TOONBOX animation studio Pavel Muntean transferred his office from Moscow to Cyprus. It was also reported that the owner of Gloria Jeans, one of the largest clothing manufacturers - Vladimir Melnikov decided to transfer the company's head office from Rostov -Don to Hong Kong , saying that in the Russian Federation "we will die like slaves", and in Hong Kong - "as winners" and "improving".

But with medicine, everything is much more complicated. According to Vargie, the requirements for the formation and certification of doctors in the USA and Europe are still significantly different from Russian. Excepts have high chances to get a job and nurses, who, along with secondary school teachers, relate to scarce workers in many developed countries.

In October 2014, Bloomberg reported that, according to statistics, in the first eight months of 2014, 203,659 people emigrated from Russia - more than in any year of Vladimir Putin's reign.

It was also noted that the Green Card in the United States, an identity card confirming the residence permit of a person who is not a citizen of the United States - won twice as many Russians in 2014 than a year earlier.

However, they leave Russia not only in the United States. For example, almost seven thousand people moved to Israel from January 2013 to August 2014. In addition, according to the data voiced in the summer of 2014, more than 130 thousand Russians are constantly living in Thailand alone. In Bulgaria, according to various estimates, from 30 to 50 thousand. About five thousand citizens of the Russian Federation live in Indian Goa, and more than two thousand in Hong Kong.