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May 8, Pozirk.<\/em><\/strong> About 500,000-600,000 Belarusians left their country after the 2020 presidential election by January 2024, Hiennad\u017a Kor\u0161una\u016d, a social scientist and former director of the National Academy of Sciences’ Institute of Sociology, concluded<\/a> in his study for the Center for New Ideas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kor\u0161una\u016d studied available data from countries that shelter Belarusians. After 2020 about 120,000 Belarusian nationals settled down in Poland, 50,000 in Lithuania, 8,000 in Germany and 25,000 in other EU countries. In addition, 11,000 Belarusians moved to Georgia and 5,000 to Israel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The scientist noted that Russia was probably the main destination but it was “almost impossible” to determine the number of people who have gone to Russia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Even official bodies can give very different figures on the number of Belarusians working in the Russian Federation in the same timeframe. For example, there can be significant gaps in the data for 2022: the Eurasian Economic Commission’s department of labor migration gives the figure of 174,305 Belarusians, while the Russian Interior Ministry’s Main Department of Migration gives 430,000.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“The only thing that can be said more or less confidently: emigration from Belarus to the east can be quite comparable with the west,” he noted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The total number of emigrants, 500,000-600,000, is about 6-7 percent of Belarus’ population, Kor\u0161una\u016d said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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April 30, Pozirk. The Belarusian government is increasing its security forces' power and capabilities to control and spy on Belarusians, the Center for New Ideas said in a report. Its author, senior researcher Hienad\u017a Kor\u0161una\u016d, said that at least 35,000 …<\/div>\n \n