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. H

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.