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They may believe they will have a better life in another country, but also that Rusia would be worse without Putin.

• Arnt 4y ago
  May. That "may" is a bit far-fetched when the rate of emigration rises steeply to a fantastically high level and another measure of satisfaction stays unchanged. The people leaving didn't suddenly get a much more positive view of life elsewhere, after all.
  • wrp 4y ago
    In this case, you may be trying to make sense of garbage data. It's not unusual for public health figures in the 3rd world to be off by an order of magnitude. How confident are you that any of the numbers we have for Russia are better than a wild guess? As for Russian emigration, the portion of society with the money and sophistication to support just up and leaving must be extremely small, and is probably very isolated socially from the rest of the population. So you have two distinct demographics that would poll very differently.