Leonid Bershidsky: Russia is not dying from a brain drain
A pigeon sits on a two-headed eagle statue at Moscow's Alexandrovsky Garden, with one of the Kremlin towers seen in the background, on June 14.
I left Russia soon after the Crimea annexation in 2014, hoping to avoid supporting President Vladimir Putin's aggression with my taxes. Since then, I have read dozens of stories about my country's brain drain, many of them citing my description of this new wave of departures as the "emigration of the disappointed."
