Exodus from Russia
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As the world focuses on Ukraine, Russian journalists, artists, actors and software engineers, who oppose President Putin’s war waged in their name, are scrambling for the exit
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Official statistics (thousands) 

Dec 1991: Fall of Soviet Union 

88,347

704,136 people emigrate from Russia

493,119
1992-93: Economic crisis. 1.2 million émigrés – many academics and professionals – leave

1994-96: First Chechen War

1997-99: Economic crisis

1999-2000: Second Chechen War

2008: Russia invades Georgia

32,460

2011: Opposition protests  after Vladimir Putin’s United Russia party wins parliamentary election amid allegations of fraud

2012-20: Putin’s poll victories, plus annexation of Crimea, prompts more than three million Russians to leave

313,210
Feb-Mar 2022: Estimated 200,000 Russians flee in first 10 days of war

487,670

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1990 1995 2000 2005 2010 2015 2020

1991-99 President 
Boris Yeltsin

2000-08
Vladimir Putin

2008-12
Dmitry Medvedev
  
2012-present
Vladimir Putin

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Sources: Bloomberg, Financial Times, Rosstat, Takie Dela Pictures: Getty Images © GRAPHIC NEWS