Rosstat: Twice as many people left Russia in the first half of 2022 as in the first half of 2021
419,000 people left Russia in the first half of 2022, the news agency RBC reported, citing Russia's Federal State Statistics Service (Rosstat). That’s twice as many people as in the first half of 2021, when only 202,000 left the country. In the first six months of 2022, Rosstat recorded a net migration outflow ( -96,700 ). That’s another change from the first half of 2021, when Russia experienced a net influx ( +114,000 ).