Russia: Tackling The Demographic Crisis

[lovuian]

http://www.rferl.org/featuresarticle/2006/05/69f48503-828d-452d-88db-a5ee3e437d33.html

PRAGUE, May 19, 2006 (RFE/RL) -- Russia's postcommunist demographic woes have been well documented. But the implications of the issue have become such a hot topic of late that President Vladimir Putin made it his highest priority during his May 10 state-of-the-nation address.


Russia's population is declining by about 700,000 people per year, and has dropped from 150 million since the 1992 census to just over 142 million today.

If left unchecked, demographers estimate that Russia's population could fall to fewer than 100 million people by 2050.

Federation Council Chairman Sergei Mironov -- who heads Russia's Party of Life, a party whose platform is largely based on resolving the demographic crisis -- this week provided even more staggering numbers, estimating that Russia might have only 52 million people by 2080 if urgent measures are not taken.

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This is what happens when your people are treated like crap... without people there are no governments there are no countries and there is no military...

[Rufus T. Firefly]

1. Send John Gibson over there.

Make him Minister of Caucasian Fertility.