Sunday, March 20, 2011

RUSSIA - The middle class starts to think of emigration

"The middle class and political elite of Russia are fleeing their country," he lamented recently the rector of the Academy of Popular Economy and Government service, Vladimir Mau, a member of the group who is working on an important series of economic proposals for the government. According to him, reports the magazine Ogonyok, lower the age of candidates for emigration is a characteristic symptom.

So far, they sent their children to foreign universities, now they are looking for high schools. For his part, President of the Court of Auditors of Russia Sergei Stepashin, said that "1.25 million Russian citizens currently working abroad." According to data from Russian portal Superjob.

ru, the leading online recruitment, 41% of those surveyed in August 2010 would have liked to emigrate. Finally, a survey in January 2011 the Institute of social projects reveals that "17% of businessmen interviewed are seriously studying the possibility of leaving Russia." It is far from the wave of emigration of the 1990s which had almost reached 500 000 people, according to Goskomstat, the Russian National Institute of Statistics.

In 2009, the number of emigrants had fallen to 32 458. But since 2009, "the mood has changed dramatically," say the experts. "Now the economic reasons are secondary, and those who wish to emigrate because they do not feel safe because they can not defend their rights in court, because corruption is, because that 'they see no prospects for their children.

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