By Marsha McGraw Olive A Eurasianet partner post from the Caspian Policy Center. Russia is an anomaly when it comes to migration. The typical pattern for migrants is to leave their home country is search of a wealthier landing spot to move up the prosperity ladder. The opposite has occurred in Russia since its full-scale invasion of Ukraine: the country has lost a stream of its best and brightest, who fled to poorer states in Central Asia and the Caucasus. In yet another anomalous twist, Russia of late has been pushing out Central Asian labour migrants that it badly needs. The deportation of T…