> The sixth wave of Russian emigration is underway — and as in the past it appears to be claiming some of the country’s best and brightest. … approximately 1.25 million Russians have left the country permanently in the last several years. … That figure is less than the two million who left in the two waves in the early 20th century — immediately after the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution and following the advent of the Stalin-era terror in the 1930s. It is also slightly more than the estimated one million who fled the USSR in both the World War II era and in the 1970s. The main thing is that … Continue reading >Brian Whitmore