In the first quarter of this year, more than 3.8 mln people left russia, according to "Siberia. Realities".
Information on the number of people crossing the border was published by the russian Federal Security Service.
The number of people who went to Georgia increased fivefold (38,281 people), and three times as many russians left for Armenia in the same period in 2021.
Other countries where the aggressor country moved were Azerbaijan (56,475 people, compared to 20,378 in the first quarter of last year), Uzbekistan (5,384), Tajikistan (4,054), Kazakhstan (20,447), and Abkhazia (744,548).
328 thousand people left Russia for Ukraine. This is almost the same number as in 2021.
Yesterday a series of explosions and smoke were heard again near Belgorod, russia. Earlier, a Ukrainian public figure, the initiator of the Erzya people, Sires Bolyayen, publicly accused Moscow of deliberately leading to the decline of national republics and places of compact residence of indigenous peoples in russia.