Posts Tagged
demographics

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  2019/05/02 - 12:10 • International, Op-ed, Russian Aggression

  Is handing out passports in the Donbas Putin’s solution to Russia’s demographic...

  Vladimir Putin’s decision to offer Russian citizenship to those living in Russian-occupied portions of Ukraine and possibly others as well may be intended not only to extend Russian power over that country further but also to help solve...

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  2018/12/15 - 11:16 • Crimea, Russian Aggression

  Deaths will exceed births in Crimea every year through 2035, Russian occupiers...

  The Crimean Statistical Agency (CSA), a branch of the Russian occupation authorities, says that deaths will exceed births there by an ever-increasing amount over the next 16 years, with deaths outnumbering births in 2025 by more than two...

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  2018/08/28 - 12:19 • More, Ukraine

  Sociological portrait of Ukraine after 27 years of independence extremely complex, Nikitina...

  Since 1992, the Institute of Sociology of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences has conducted an enormous number of surveys and polls which together with the work of various private polling agencies provide a detailed if often ignored portrait...

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  2017/11/07 - 00:46 • International, More

  Ukrainian nation disappearing in Russia, Kyiv ethnographer says

  The once large Ukrainian nation within the borders of what is now the Russian Federation is rapidly disappearing, the result of out-migration to Ukraine, elimination of the nationality line in the passport, and assimilation by the more...

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  2017/08/25 - 11:23 • International, More

  Three ways Kremlin contributing to Russia’s demographic crisis

  Most analysts in Russia and the West argue that changes in the size of the prime child-bearing cohort of Russian women, long-standing secular trends to smaller family size in Russia as in other countries, and the impact of the economic...

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  2017/07/06 - 12:57 • International, More

  Russia caught between economic decline and potentially explosive demographic change

  Russia’s economic development ministry says that the country’s GDP growth will be approximately half of one percent lower each year because of projected declines in the number of workers in Russia in the coming decades, a decline that...

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  2017/04/15 - 12:22 • More, Ukraine

  Making Ukraine mono-ethnic – Putin’s greatest achievement and most fateful failure

  Ninety-two percent of Ukrainian citizens now consider themselves ethnic Ukrainians, an unprecedented figure that is the product of Vladimir Putin’s aggression against their country and one that highlights the fundamental weakness of...

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  2015/09/10 - 21:35 • More, Ukraine, War in the Donbas

  Russian invasion driving up mortality rates across Ukraine, Kyiv experts say

  The Russian Anschluss of Crimea and invasion of Donbas have put strains on Ukraine that have led to a dramatic rise in mortality rates not just in the regions directly affected but across the country, according to Nataliya Ryngach, a...

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  2015/02/19 - 13:33 • International, More

  A checklist of 10 Russian developments worth watching

  The situation in and around Russia is now changing with such dizzying rapidity that it is all but impossible to keep up, given the overriding need to focus on Vladimir Putin’s continuing aggression in Ukraine.  But many developments,...

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  2015/01/19 - 18:36 • International

  Expert: Looming ethnic conflicts in Russia will be ‘more devastating’ than in...

  The looming decline in the number of Russian births, the increase in emigration, and the rise in the number of births among non-Russians and especially Muslim groups will spark “inter-ethnic conflicts” in the Russian Federation that...

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