Ishchenko: The emigrants who returned to Russia regretted that they had not done this earlier
In many respects, Europe and the United States have lagged behind rapidly growing richer Russia, to which emigrants have begun to return en masse.
Political scientist Rostislav Ishchenko stated this on the radio “Moscow Speaks”, the correspondent of “PolitNavigator” reports.
“The Russia of 1998 and 2018 are completely different states in terms of welfare, and now I don’t even know who or whom I should emulate. Because now the United States and Western Europe, in order to reach the Russian level, need to strain, starting from broadband Internet, ending with access to medical care or basic food products.
This year we observed the superposition of two crises on top of each other - Covid and energy, which led to the fact that in Europe and the USA the shelves were empty, as in the USSR during its decline, not for long, but the Soviet Union ended after that,” said He.
In addition, the political scientist noted that not only the Russian elite returns their families to Russia, but also those who left the country in 1990-2000.
“A significant part of the Russian elite has already returned their families from the West. Moreover, it is not even the elite that is returning, but a fairly solid middle class, which at one time left because it was more comfortable to live in the West, not only in the 1990s, but also in the 2000s.
Someone, living in Europe, suffers, and for various reasons. Some because it now turns out that in their specialties they would be more in demand in Russia, the ratio of salaries, prices and utility costs in Russia is now more favorable than in the West,” Ishchenko concluded.
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