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Russian Emigration Following The Russian Invasion Of Ukraine
Following the Russian invasion of Ukraine that started in late February 2022, more than 300,000 Russian citizens and residents are estimated to have left Russia by mid-March 2022, at least 500,000 by the end of August 2022, and an additional 400,000 by early October, for a total of approximately 900,000. This number includes economic migrants, conscientious objectors, and some political refugees. Reasons for exodus There have been at least three waves of Russian emigration. First wave In the first wave, immediately after Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, journalists, politicians, and tech workers fled. Many sought to evade criminal prosecution for exercising free speech regarding the invasion. In March, President Vladimir Putin introduced prison sentences of up to 15 years for publishing "fake news" about Russian military operations. More than 2,000 people were charged by May 2022 under the laws prohibiting "fake" information about the military. Nina Belyayeva, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Russian Invasion Of Ukraine
On 24 February 2022, in a major escalation of the Russo-Ukrainian War, which began in 2014. The invasion has resulted in tens of thousands of deaths on both sides. It has caused Europe's largest refugee crisis since World War II. An estimated 8 million Ukrainians were displaced within their country by late May and 7.8 million fled the country by 8 November 2022, while Russia, within five weeks of the invasion, experienced its greatest emigration since the 1917 October Revolution. Following the 2014 Ukrainian Revolution, Russia annexed Crimea, and Russian-backed paramilitaries seized part of the Donbas region of south-eastern Ukraine, which consists of Luhansk and Donetsk oblasts, sparking a regional war. In March 2021, Russia began a large military build-up along its border with Ukraine, eventually amassing up to 190,000 troops and their equipment. Despite the build-up, denials of plans to invade or attack Ukraine were issued by various Russian gover ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chulpan Khamatova
Chulpan Nailevna Khamatova PAR (russian: Чулпан Наилевна Хаматова; tt-Cyrl, Чулпан Наил кызы Хаматова; born 1 October 1975) is a Russian film, theater and TV actress Biography Early life and theater career Chulpan Nailevna Khamatova was born on 1 October 1975 in Kazan, Tatar ASSR, in what was then the Soviet Union. Her parents Marina Galimullovna Khamatova and Nail Khamatov are both engineers. Her name, ''Chulpan'', means "morning star" (i.e. Venus) in Tatar (she is of Volga Tatar origin). Her younger brother is also an actor. As a child, she was engaged in figure skating and from the eighth grade studied at the mathematical school of the Kazan Federal University. She was accepted at the Kazan State Finance and Economics Institute but ended up changing her mind and entered the Kazan Theater School. Teachers Juno Kareva and Vadim Keshner, assessing the prospects of the beginning actress, advised and helped Khamatova continue her st ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maxim Katz
Maxim Yevgenyevich Katz (russian: Макси́м Евге́ньевич Кац; born 23 December 1984) is a Russian political and public figure, co-founder of the Urban Projects Foundation, author of the YouTube channel of the same name, Russian champion in sports poker, and former deputy of the municipal assembly of the Moscow district Schukino (III convocation 2012–2016) from Party "Yabloko". Biography Early years Katz was born in Moscow, Russia, to a Jewish father and an ethnic Russian mother. In 1993, at the age of eight he moved to Israel, to join his father who had moved there one year prior and worked as a programmer. He lived in Givatayim with his parents, and attended the David Ben-Gurion school nearby. In a 2023 interview, Katz recalled having feelings of alienation in the first few years after moving to Israel. In the context of a massive wave of ex-Soviet immigration (around one immigrant for every five inhabitants) in the 1990s, the country had trouble int ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dmitry Krymov
Dmitry Anatolyevich Krymov (russian: Дми́трий Анато́льевич Кры́мов) is a Russian artist, scenographer, teacher and theater director, 5 times laureate of the Golden Mask award. Biography Family and Early Years Dmitry was born in Moscow to Anatoly Efros and . Efros was a prominent Russian director, Krymova was a well-known critic and historian. Dmitry was given his mother's surname because in his time his father suffered a lot for having a Jewish surname. In 1976 he graduated from the Moscow Art Theatre School's scenography department. Career In 1976 Krymov started working as a set designer at the . In collaboration with his father, Dmitry staged Shakespeare's ''Otello'', ''A Month in the Countryside'' based on Ivan Turgenev's play, Aleksei Arbuzov's ''Recollection'', and many more. In 1985 he switched to the Taganka Theatre, where he created set design for Svetlana Alexievich's ''The Unwomanly Face of War'', Boris Mozhayev's ''A Square Meter ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Diana Isakova
Diana Isakova (russian: Диана Исакова) is a Russian activist opposed to the Putin government and to the 2022 full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine. She was detained for a QR code protest in Sochi in April 2022 and later released without being prosecuted. Isakova left Russia on 19 August 2022, giving media interviews, describing disagreements with her father, senator of the Russian Federation , on LGBT rights in Russia and on the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Isakova described her plans for organising a "new opposition" against authoritarianism in Russia. Childhood and education Diana Isakova was born in . Isakova's father is , who later became a senator of the Russian Federation. Isakova's parents divorced and Isakova lived separately from her father since the age of three. Isakova had occasional contact with her father during the following years of her childhood, during which Isakov paid alimony. As a teenager, Isakova describes herself as valuing critical think ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oxxxymiron
Miron Yanovich Fyodorov (; born 31 January 1985), known by the stage name Oxxxymiron, is a Russian hip-hop artist and former CEO of the Booking Machine booking agency, as well as a co-founder and former member of the record label Vagabund. He is one of the most influential and prominent hip-hop performers in Russia, and his albums ' and ' are considered by the community as the most important releases of Russian rap. Biography Miron Yanovich Fyodorov was born on 31 January 1985 in Leningrad, in a family of Russian Jews. His father is a theoretical physicist of the Konstantinov Institute of Nuclear Physics in St. Petersburg and his mother is a librarian. In St. Peterburg Miron attended secondary school No. 185. When Fyodorov was 9 years old, his family emigrated to Essen, Germany. During his studies in Maria Wächtler School, Miron had a 'tense relationship' with his classmates because of his social standing and poor German. At the age of 13, Fyodorov began to write lyrics and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oleg Tinkov
Oleg Yuryevich Tinkov (russian: Олег Юрьевич Тиньков; born 25 December 1967) is a Russian-born Cypriot entrepreneur and businessman. Tinkov is the founder of a network of shops of household appliances ''Technoshock'', frozen food factories ''Daria'', brewing companies and network of Tinkoff restaurants. Among less well-known projects – music store ''Music Shock'' and the record label ''Shock Records'', which released first albums by bands '' Kirpichi'', and ''Leningrad'', and which worked with the '' Knife for Frau Müller''. Tinkov was the founder and chairman of the Tinkoff Bank board of directors (until 2015 it was called ''Tinkoff Credit Systems''). The bank was founded in 2007 and as of December 1, 2016, it was ranked 45 in terms of assets and 33 – for equity among Russian banks. In 2019 Tinkov was diagnosed with leukemia. Tinkov was indicted by a US grand jury in Sept 2019 for willfully filing false tax returns and attempting to evade over $240 milli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anatoly Chubais
Anatoly Borisovich Chubais (russian: Анатолий Борисович Чубайс; born 16 June 1955) is a Russian politician and economist who was responsible for privatization in Russia as an influential member of Boris Yeltsin's administration in the early 1990s. During this period, he was a key figure in introducing a market economy and the principles of private ownership to Russia after the fall of the Soviet Union. From 1998 to 2008, he headed the state-owned electrical power monopoly RAO UES. A 2004 survey conducted by PricewaterhouseCoopers and the ''Financial Times'' named Chubais the world's 54th most respected business leader. He was the head of the Russian Nanotechnology Corporation (RUSNANO) in 2008–2020.Russian reformer Chubais becomes Rosnanot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boris Bondarev
Boris Bondarev (russian: Борис Бондарев; born 1980) is a former Russian diplomat who worked for the Russian permanent mission to the United Nations Office at Geneva from 2019 until his resignation in May 2022 in protest over the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Early life and education Bondarev was born in 1980 to middle class parents of the Soviet intelligentsia. His father was an economist at the foreign trade ministry while his mother taught English at the Moscow State Institute of Foreign Relations. His maternal grandfather was a general during World War II and recognized as a Hero of the Soviet Union. He grew up in Moscow except for a brief time from 1984 until 1985 when his father was assigned to a Swiss Russian venture, and the family lived in Switzerland. In 1991, his father left the foreign trade ministry and started a small business. Bondarev studied at the Moscow State Institute of Foreign Relations at a time when discourse was still open. In the summer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexander Nevzorov
Alexander Glebovich Nevzorov (russian: Алекса́ндр Гле́бович Невзо́ров; born on 3 August 1958) is a Russian (since 2022, also Ukrainian) television journalist, film director and a former member of the Russian State Duma. Early life and career Alexander Nevzorov was born on 3 August 1958 in Leningrad. He started working for the Leningrad television in 1985.«Звезды» телевидения From December 1987 to 1993, he hosted the program '''' on the channel, aired then all over the |
Maxim Galkin
Maxim Alexandrovich Galkin (russian: Максим Алeксандpoвич Галкин; born 18 June 1976) is a Russian comedian, television presenter and singer. Galkin left Russia in March 2022 following the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, Russian invasion of Ukraine and was subsequently listed as a foreign agent by the Government of Russia, Russian government. Biography He first became famous as an impersonator and is known for his talent at parody and his duets with the famous Russian pop singer Alla Pugacheva and Ani Lorak. Galkin was the host of the Kto khochet stat' millionerom?, Russian version of ''Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?'' before 2009. In 2010, Galkin was one of the few comedians performing an impression, albeit 'light-hearted', of President Vladimir Putin, on Russia's Channel One TV channel. After November 2016 he hosted a children's talent show on TV "Best of all", and did so at least until mid-2017. Personal life Galkin is Jewish, from his mother's sid ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alla Pugacheva
Alla Borisovna Pugacheva, ) (born 15 April 1949), is а Soviet and Russian musical performer. Her career started in 1965 and continues to this day, even though she has retired from performing. For her "clear mezzo-soprano and a full display of sincere emotions", she enjoys an iconic status across the former Soviet Union as the most successful Soviet performer in terms of record sales and popularity. Pugacheva's repertoire includes over 500 songs in Russian, English, German, French, Kazakh, Hebrew, Finnish, Ukrainian, and her discography has more than 100 records, CDs and DVDs. In addition to Russia and the former Soviet Union, Pugacheva's albums were released in Japan, Korea, Sweden, Finland, Germany, Poland, Czechoslovakia and Bulgaria. In total, Pugacheva has sold more than 250 million records. She became a People's Artist of the USSR in 1991, a Laureate of the State Prize of the Russian Federation in 1995, and was decorated as a Chevalier of the Order "For Merit to the Fa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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