Posts Tagged
demographics

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  2017/07/06 - 12:57 • Analysis & Opinion, Russia

  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 • Analysis & Opinion, 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 • Analysis & Opinion, 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 • Analysis & Opinion, Russia

  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 • Russia

  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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