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Strategy Page: Winning: Russia Gains Crimea But Loses Over A Million Russians

Since Russia began invading and trying to annex parts of Ukraine in 2014 there has been a substantial shift in population. Since early 2014 nearly two million people have left Russia. More than half these were Westerners (including many from East European countries) working in Russia, providing skills that Russia did not have. The rest were Russians, most of them highly educated and with similar skills to the departing Westerners. What all these migrants had in common was a desire to get away from an increasingly authoritarian, intolerant and economically disastrous Russian government. About half the departing Westerners and skilled Russians were replaced by more (less educated and skilled) migrants from the east (Central Asia, North Korea, China and the Caucasus).

WNU Editor: My cousins daughter in Moscow asked me only yesterday if I can get for her the necessary papers so that she can apply to McGill University in 2016 when she is 19 (I live in Montreal where the university is located). This decline is happening for may reasons .... but the main one is economic .... people in Russia do not want to have children because of the high costs involved .... and are moving and/or looking elsewhere to better their lives.