personally my inclination is to see this as a psyop, first and foremost, against the Russian population, intended to normalize and portray it as reality that mass numbers of people are leaving, having the goal of destabilizing the country by actually causing the people to leave. Not unlike the mass pro-Ukraine propaganda that has exploded across the internet, which I also largely interpret as being a psyop against the Russian military, portraying their forces as completely inept and doomed to fail in every way; portraying that mass numbers of soldiers are fleeing and turning themselves in, yadda yadda; encouraging that they are demoralized and act according to what appears real to them. To me this is American meddling tactics 101. I mean, holy fuck, ten Arab Spring countries in a row with comical grassroots bullshit happening in each one? I can't possibly be the only one seeing things this way, can I?
edit: oh hey, the original number has literally doubled in the same day since I posted this, they must be pretty damn scared
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