This is bogus. Russia's demo is declining. All white Russians are leaving Russia or not having babies and Russia is importing Turkics and from the caucasus to make up for it. On the long term it won't matter, Russia is heading for demographic disaster. It is certain that Russia's population will decline 30-50 million and % of non Russians will increase explosively. Read this article:
In his recent state of the nation address, President Vladimir Putin said the most urgent problem facing Russia is its demographic crisis.
The country's population is declining by at least 700,000 people each year, leading to slow depopulation of the northern and eastern extremes of Russia, the emergence of hundreds of uninhabited "ghost villages" and an increasingly aged workforce.
Now, one of Russia's leading sociologists has warned that the country's population may halve by the middle of this century.
Official Russian forecasts, along with those from international organisations like the UN, predict a decline from
146 million to between 80 and 100 million by 2050.
But in an exclusive interview to the BBC, Viktor Perevedentsev, who has been studying Russia's population since the 1960s, said he believed even these figures may be overly optimistic.
He said the decline was likely to accelerate and that the Russian leadership should accept the population had reached a "tipping point", beyond which direct intervention would be ineffective.
Birth-rates in many developed, industrialised countries are stagnant or declining. But when this is combined with very low life-expectancy and an increasingly unhealthy population, Mr Perevedentsev agrees that the term "catastrophe" reflects reality. It is not a case of hyperbole from overly emotional Russian patriots, he says.
BBC NEWS | Europe | Russia faces demographic disaster
