US EditionHuman Collapse: Russia Moves to Conceal Severe Demographic Crisis
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7 Articles
It is difficult to calculate what is not there, so the state can more easily publish cosmetic reports.
Russia has reportedly stopped publishing its own population statistics to hide the country's rampant demographic crisis, partly caused by the war in Ukraine. At the same time, the Kremlin is trying to attract conservative Westerners to Russia through so-called "anti-woke" visas. - It has a propaganda purpose for Russia, says Carolina Vendil Pallin at FOI.
No births, no deaths, no data Russia is pulling demographic stats from public view. What’s the Kremlin trying to hide?
Between May and July, Russia’s Federal State Statistics Service (Rosstat) gradually stopped publishing nearly all key demographic indicators. First to disappear were the real-time regional figures on births, deaths, marriages, and divorces. Then, in late June, Rosstat refused for the first time to release final mortality data for 2024. Similar figures for 2022 and 2023 had previously allowed statistician Dmitry Kobak and his colleagues to calc…
Between May and July, Russia’s Federal State Statistics Service (Rosstat) gradually stopped publishing almost all key demographic data: first, real-time regional data on births, deaths, marriages, and divorces disappeared, and then, at the end of June, Rosstat refused to publish final mortality data for 2024. This is the first time this has happened, Meduza reports. Similar data for 2022 and 2023 previously allowed statisticians to calculate exc…
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