M.N.: "Any correlations are interesting." | "The bottom line: Russia is seeing some dramatic demographic changes that could greatly influence its economic and political future." - Russia Brain Drain (Putin, Ukraine, Crimea) - Business Insider

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M.N.: The definite increase (see FBI study:"A Study of Active Shooter Incidents in the United States Between 2000 and 2013".) in frequency of the US mass shootings since 2011 coincides contemporaneously (occurring within the same time period) with Putin's third presidency (imperial, internally oppressive and rabidly Anti-American and Anti-Western) which made a sharp turn from the relatively liberal and "technocratic" Medvedev's Presidency, as illustrated by the increase in the number of immigrants from Russia. At this point this correlation must be treated as more coincidental than causal, until proven otherwise, which, nevertheless, is interesting. Any correlations are interesting. 
The last graph shows also increase in immigration to Russia figures (most likely due to the influx of cheaper labor force from the Asian former USSR republics), which might be indicative of the rapidly increased rate of "Asianisation", "mongolo-tatarisation" of Russia, in many senses, including demographic, political, cultural, historical and others. 
Even Putin himself started to look and act more like Ryazan tatar boy ("Рязанский татарчонок") than a European politician, apparently due to proverbial for politicians, somewhat hypertrophied adaptive abilities and increasingly slitty (Blogger's spell-check suggested "slutty") eyes, apparently due to multiple plastic surgery procedures and/or corticosteroid injections. No wonder he is so pumped up at the shown earlier, actor-played "athletic video". 
"The bottom line: Russia is seeing some dramatic demographic changes that could greatly influence its economic and political future." 

Harvard University researchers say U.S. mass shootings have surged in the last three years, contradicting earlier studies.

The Harvard researchers said the rate of mass shootings has increased threefold since 2011, occurring on average every 64 days, compared with an average of every 200 days in the years from 1982 to 2011.

The researchers used a database created by Mother Jones to look at mass shootings, which they defined as attacks that "took place in public, in which the shooter and the victims generally were unrelated and unknown to each other, and in which the shooter murdered four or more people."

The Harvard study echoes an FBI report last month that found active shooter incidents have risen dramatically in the last six years, with an average of 16.4 such shootings a year from 2007 to 2013, compared with an average of 6.4 shootings annually from 2000 to 2006. 

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Russia is experiencing another major brain drain.

Although emigration trended downward from 1997 to 2011, there was a sudden spike in people leaving the country around the third term of President Vladimir Putin, according to Rosstat, Russia's federal state statistics service.

In 2012, almost 123,000 people left, and in 2013, more than 186,000 got out.

Additionally, a UN report showed that 40,000 Russians applied for asylum in 2013 — 76% more than in 2012.

The biggest bombshell of all is that since April 2014 — a month after Russia annexed Crimea — 203,659 Russians have left the country. 

By comparison, approximately 37,000 people left the country in 2011, and less than 34,000 people left in 2010.

Furthermore, the emigration numbers may be even higher. "The official statistics are very low," Mikhail Gorshkov, the director of the Russian Academy of Sciences' Institute of Sociology told Reuters.

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What's particularly interesting is the type of people who are leaving the country.

"While the total number of Russians who leave for good remains relatively small, the profile of the typical emigrant has changed. When the Soviet Union dissolved, the most common emigrant was a poor, unskilled young man. Today, it is a well-off professional," according to World Policy.

"People who have it good are starting to leave," Anton Nosski, a tech entrepreneur, told World Policy.

Notable individuals who have left include chess grandmaster Garry Kasparov, economist Sergei Guriyev, journalist Leonid Bershidsky, and the founder of VKontakte (Russia's version of Facebook) Pavel Durov. 

For the most part, these people are leaving either for their children or for their professional futures. "Corruption, red tape, and allegedly crooked courts are [also] driving the exodus among entrepreneurs," according to Reuters.

"I want my children to grow up in a fairer country, one where the rule of law is more or less observed. I used think it was possible to build a better society in Russia, but I've basically lost all hope now. It's time to leave," one Russian businessman told Vocativ.

"Russian venture capital funds want to invest their money only in Russia," start-up founder Artem Kulizhnikov told Bloomberg news, "but we want to build an international business and they won't support us."

Additionally, Russia's "creative class" is starting to feel isolated, although some politicians seem unfazed.

"Russia won't lose anything if the entire so-called creative class leaves. What's the creative class anyway? For me, a woman who gets up at 5 a.m. to milk a cow is creative because she produces something. Not some guy with a stupid haircut who sits in a cafe all day long writing in his blog," said Vitaly Milonov, a Member of the Legislative Assembly of Saint Petersburg.

But the brain drain isn't the whole story. A huge influx of immigrants are entering Russia as well.

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This makes sense: If many high-level individuals and intellectuals are leaving Russia, more high-end jobs and opportunities will become available in Russia.

According to the UN, Russia saw the second-largest number of international migrants in 2013. The number of people moving into Russia actually tops the number of people moving out (which you can see above.)

Many of the immigrants come from countries like Azerbaijan, Uzbekistan, Ukraine, according to data from Rosstat.

Additionally, millennials who are culturally Russian but were born in the US or Europe are considering opportunities in Russia.

"There are opportunities for my children in Moscow that aren't found anywhere else," one parent told BI.

"I believe that Russia is at a point where they realize they cannot rely on just oil and gas to keep up with the other BRIC countries and Western economies. Russia is looking to diversify its economy,"one 20-something told BI. "The opportunities in Russia seem to be more promising than here in the States currently. Before the current sanctions and drastic low oil prices, Russia was a top seven economic power. As a young Russian-American, I've thought about pursuing opportunities abroad that do not exist in the US."

The bottom line: Russia is seeing some dramatic demographic changes that could greatly influence its economic and political future.

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