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| 2018-03-14 |
| [Unz] Accurate data for your reference. The reason I don’t write much about Russia’s demographics nowadays is that there isn’t much point to it. Up until the early 2010s, the Western media was brimming with misinformation about the subject – what we now call #fakenews – so refuting it was both profitable and easy. Incredibly easy. You didn’t really have to do anything much more complicated than taking a few minutes to browse through Russia’s national statistics database, but apparently that was beyond the capabilities of most Russia journalists. However, by now a critical number of Western pundits have apparently acquainted themselves with at least the Wikipedia article on Russia’s demographics. In the longterm, reality wins out, and so with a lag time of about a decade, references to Russia’s “plummeting population” and “sixth wave of emigration” have steadily petered out (the last major holdouts of Russia demographic doomerism was Barack Obama in this 2014 interview with The Economist, and Michael Rubin for Commentary in 2015,). We can now finally say that the “Dying Bear” meme has fulfilled lived up to its own name. |
| Posted by:3dc |
| #4 Russia had a good decade of high oil prices before their invasion of Ukraine. That's done with for the foreseeable future. Sanctions will only get tighter w/ trade and technology cut off. The people will respond by pulling in their heads (big and little) as KGB Poisoner Putin kills off Cuddle-Me Putin. |
| Posted by: Throter Spock4390 2018-03-14 19:30 |
| #3 There are a tremendous number of (Chinese) illegal aliens in Siberia. I suspect they may be skewing the demographics |
| Posted by: Blossom Hupager6063 2018-03-14 19:02 |
| #2 There is an underlying (false) assumption that a growing population is an unalloyed good. |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2018-03-14 11:35 |
| #1 You assume Russian official demographics are accurate? I have this nice bridge in Siberia you might want to purchase.... |
| Posted by: Snoluting Phomoth8901 2018-03-14 08:27 |