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RFE/RL: Number of young Russians who want to emigrate hits highest level in decade

Published Nov. 26, 2019 at 2:24 pm

A woman holds a poster reading "Put In - Put Out" as she demonstrates outside the Russian embassy in Berlin, where people queued to cast their votes for Russia's presidential elections, on March 18, 2018. Russians were voting in an election set to hand President Vladimir Putin a fourth Kremlin term but slammed by the opposition as a sham as tensions with Britain escalated over the poisoning of a former Russian double agent. / AFP PHOTO / Tobias SCHWARZ

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A majority of young Russians want to leave the country, according to a new opinion poll, the highest number in a decade.

The survey by the independent Russian pollster Levada Center, released on November 26, found that more than half of Russians between the ages of 18 and 24 want to leave for other countries, while 21 percent of respondents from all age groups said they would like to emigrate.