Russians currently do not see emigration as a key to solving their problems, the general director of the All-Russia Center for the Study of Public Opinion (VTsIOM) said on Friday.
"According to our data, Russians' desire to emigrate today is considerably lower than twenty, fifteen or even ten years ago," Valery Fyodorov said.
"Even if you feel restricted by the place where you were born and bred, there are a lot of objections to moving abroad," he said.
Even last year, when the recession was the worst, VTsIOM surveys revealed only 7-8% of respondents wanted to move abroad.
Fyodorov said that while Russians are ready and willing to move around the country in search of better jobs, emigration is an option very few would choose.
There are several bars to emigration, Fyodorov said. One of them is the need to master a foreign language, while another, perhaps a more important one, is the West's completely different attitude to the law.
"For us, the law is something very important yet unclear... The Western society is organized differently. There the law is not a dead letter but an operating regulator of everyday life. It is difficult for our person to integrate into that society," Fyodorov said.
NOVOSIBIRSK, August 27 (RIA Novosti)
