When discussing migration, it is worth remembering that the typical picture of a European country, when migrants mostly settle in a few largest cities, is not suitable for Russia. For example, hardly anyone outside Russia has ever heard of the Siberian town of Surgut with a population of 400,000, which is not even in the top 50 largest cities in Russia (to the question of how hyper-urbanized Russia is, with all the negative trends that follow from that). Nevertheless, it has a migrant population of 60 thousand. And this is only foreigners with temporary documents, the number of illegal migrants (who entered the country illegally, or after the expiration of their documents did not leave the country), or who have already obtained citizenship, remains unknown. This is the result of the Putin government's consistent policy of replacing the local population that is dying or leaving the country.

After the terrorist attack at Crocus City Hall, some voices on the Internet suggested that Russia should reconsider its migration policy. And Putin's government has listened to them, announcing... accepting even more migrants. At least in the state-run sector. The Russian Ministry of Labor annually issues quotas for the number of foreign workers to be accepted by government owned companies and state budget institutions in each constituent entity of the federation. In 2024, the size of quotas has again increased for all regions, for example, in the Central Federal District - from 33 thousand to 43 thousand and so on. By themselves, these figures mean little, since most migrants come by themselves without these quotas, but they demonstrate perfectly the level of disregard for public opinion on the part of Putin's government. All of this comes after the de facto cancellation of deportations for illegal migrants and replacing it with a system of restrictions that will force them to seek permanent residency in the country. Also in mid-2023 it was announced that migrants will also be able to obtain a new type of temporary residence permit that does not require renewing. At the end of 2023, it was made easier to obtain Russian citizenship for children of migrants, migrants married to Russian citizens (previously the marriage had to last more than a year, now citizenship can be issued immediately), as well as simplified dual citizenship system for migrants from Tajikistan - the country from which most migrants come (for example, if a citizen of Tajikistan has already served in the army in his home country and then received a Russian passport, he gets rid of mandatory military service in Russia). In the first three months of 2023, according to official data, 1,3 million migrants arrived in Russia, 1,6 times more than in the same period in 2022.

Turkish airlines have stopped selling tickets to Latin America to Russians. Before that, for several weeks Russians in social networks discussed that passengers from Russia to Latin America were pulled off flights even though they had a ticket. The reason is simple - Russians fly to Mexico, where they illegally cross the border with the United States. In 2022, 22 000 such cases were recorded, in 2023, the number was more than 43 000. As a result, America is trying to put pressure on officials of transit countries to stop the flow of migrants from Russia. Before that, Argentina took similar measures - Russians did business on pregnant women who gave birth in Argentina so that their children could obtain Argentine citizenship, and thus an affordable passport, not restricted by the consequences of the war with Ukraine. In 2022, more than 10,000 Russian women came to give birth in Argentina, and the total number of Russians who migrated to the country on the other side of the world was more than 35,000.

In his interview with Dugin, Tucker presents Dugin as a "Soviet dissident," misleading his viewers from the start. In reality, Dugin's father was a lieutenant general in the GRU, the foreign intelligence agency of the USSR Ministry of Defense. He got him into the prestigious Moscow Aviation Institute (yes, he doesn't even have a philosophy degree). The myth about his engagement in dissident activities was launched by Dugin himself in the 90s to create the necessary image for his own public profile and there is actually no evidence of it. No public activity of Dugin is known before the Perestroika, when political activism and freedom of speech were allowed. He also invented the story that he worked as a janitor and this fictitious fact, which was refuted by his acquaintances, unfortunately found its way into Western sources about him. In reality, Dugin lived a bourgeois lifestyle as a privileged child of the Soviet nomenklatura, wrote lyrics for a faculty rock band, which led him to join the Satanic Yuzhin circle and then to the "Pamyat" party, thus beginning his public career during Perestroika and, as can be assumed from his background, in close contact with the security services and providing them with information on regular activists. Pavel Zarifullin, head of the Eurasian Youth Union, who knew Dugin closely, said the following about him: "He always saw ideologies as a means for his personal career growth. He always wanted to get into the establishment, he considered himself part of it. [...] he always knew that genetically he was a member of the elite..."

But what about Dugin's life in the post-Soviet times? Surely he himself was able to create a large traditional family? As you probably know, Dugin's wife divorced him and went to live with a woman, becoming an LGBT activist and opening a lesbian cafe in Moscow called Dietrich, named after Marlene Dietrich. Dugin's late daughter Daria, judging by her Instagram and TikTok, led the life of a typical Millennial woman of high income from the big city, showing off designer clothes and posting photos from parties. She was 30 at the time of her death but had no children, although she was briefly married to a university friend but divorced after a few months. Six months after her death, it was announced that a street would be named after Daria Dugina in Russian-occupied Melitopol. A Russian journalist wrote on his blog that day: "It's funny when they name a street after the person you took amphetamines with)"