MOSCOW, April 5. /TASS/. Russian presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov sees nothing unusual in people’s wish to seek their fortunes elsewhere, so the Gallup poll’s finding one in five Russians would like to leave the country is not a very high rate. The number of those who would like to emigrate from the United States is larger, he remarked.

"Such surveys are held by different pollsters in different countries around the world. The rate we’ve seen is not the highest by all means," he said about the Gallup statistics. "The number of Americans who would like to emigrate from the United States is higher than one-fifth."

"It’s a normal process by and large. Some people are more migration-minded than others. This is a usual theme for sociological research," Peskov said, adding that such statistics should be regarded with certain allowances for the likely margins of error.

Earlier, a Gallup poll said that a record-high number of Russians would like to leave the country. According to its latest poll up to 20% Russians (a record-high rate since 2007) said they would like to resettle elsewhere.