Historical and Current Trends in Emigration From Russia
... identify themselves and their origins with a country that no longer exists: the Soviet Union. Foreign data indicates that the number of Russian nationals and citizens abroad continued to grow over the last decade. To assess the causes and consequences of emigration, and to forecast return migration flows, it is necessary to understand how migration outflow is structured. But this issue is still poorly represented in national surveys. As a rule, it is much more difficult to obtain demographic and socio-economic data from host countries ...