Motivation: Emigration intentions of Russians after Putin’s invasion of Ukraine. Notes: This figure shows how often Russians searched for the term “ ” (“Emigration from Russia” in English, henceforth EFR) on Google, which I use as a proxy for actual emigration. Google does not publicly provide counts of search items. Instead, it provides an index of search frequency. This index (the vertical axis) is the number of weekly searches for EFR divided by the maximum number of weekly searches for EFR between January 2019 and December 2022 in Russia. This is scaled from zero to 100, where 100 is the week with the most searches for EFR and zero the week with the least searches. Figure 1 shows that the week after the start of the invasion (24 February 2022) has a search index of 100, i.e., it is the week with the most searches for EFR in the period between January 2019 and December 2022. Data source: https://trends.google.com/