In recent years, increased the number of people leaving the Russian, and leaving forever or for a long time. The main reasons are pretty obvious: deteriorating economic situation in the country, plus a very questionable political in the absence of any stability and confidence in the future. Over the past 5 years the country has left more than 400 thousand people. A large proportion of them are qualified specialists in various fields, including legal and technical, and business. I must say that this figure is more than the number of emigrants the end of XX - beginning of XXI century, but still less than the number who left in the first half of the 90s.
Which is quite logical, Russians emigrate to wealthier countries, who are mainly in Europe and North America. To be more precise, the absolute leader - is the United States. Then about half the immigrants plays host to Germany and another half - Canada. In the last five years has left 20 thousand people, that is not enough. About 10 thousand hosted Greece, continue to monitor the country is no longer such a large margin in the number of arriving in Spain, Italy, Norway, France, Great Britain and Sweden. Many of our compatriots go to live in the Czech Republic, Bulgaria and Montenegro.
It is necessary, however, to note that assess the true scale of emigration is very difficult. It's not that it's someone hiding. Just so many now do not leave the country quickly, once and for all. Quite common, for example, a trip abroad for training and employment visas. In this case, people really can go to learn and work, but a significant part of them does so with the expectation that they could stay longer or come later for permanent residence, and the first exit turns a kind of intelligence.
Another type of "hidden" immigrants - people buying property abroad. Often, many of them are in no hurry to move anywhere until retain Russian citizenship, and when they become real immigrants do not know, perhaps even themselves. But it is clear that the property is somewhere in a distant land is acquired not just "make it." All of this is difficult to take into account, but obviously says that in the coming years, the flow of emigration is unlikely to be reduced, on the contrary, he has a kind of stock in the form of people, has already prepared a place where to go.
