KavKaz Center, 13 August 2010, 22:50
The number of suicides, poisonings, homicides and accidents in Russia is comparable to the level of mortality from the same causes in such countries as Sierra Leone, Angola and Burundi. These are the countries that are undergoing or have recently emerged from a military conflict. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, there are only two births for every three deaths in Russia .
These figures based on a optimistic study were published by professor Nicholas Eberstadt from the American Enterprise Institute in his book entitled "Russia's Peacetime Demographic Crisis".
"It's not only a vast demographic crisis, it is a far-reaching all-pervading crisis of Russian human resources", says Eberstadt. According to the researcher, despite all the signs of extinction of Russians as a people, Russia's political elite has not yet realized the extent of the changes in the main slave contingent among its citizens.
American scientists are confident that in the next twenty years the problem of rapid reduction of working slave population in Russia would have an impact on all spheres of life in the Russian society.
Because of a dramatic demographic crisis, according to researchers, Russia will have to realize its place on the margin of the global arena, stop making stupid and ridiculous attempts to stand up from its knees, abandon its totalitarian political system and get out from its illegal borders.
A sharp decline in population that Russia is going through over the last 20 years is primarily due to the predominance of deaths over the number of births. An average birth rate by Russian women is basically the same as with residents of Western Europe. In this area, Russia can be considered as a country of "the second demographic sift", says Nicholas Eberstadt.
At the same time, Russians die with a speed incredible for Europeans.
"Average Russian mortality rate today is more than twice higher than the mortality rate in Western Europe", says Eberstadt.
No less interesting, according to the researcher, is the fact that "average death rate in Russia is about 50% higher than in new EU member states, i.e. countries of the former Soviet bloc".
One of the main cause of death among Russians are cardiovascular diseases. People die from them 40% more often in Russia than in Finland which has a European record for the number of deaths from heart attacks and strokes..
"The leadership in the Kremlin is trying somehow to fight these problems, but it seems that ambitious leaders of Russia have not even begun to realize the scope of what is really happening", Eberstadt emphasizes.
Department of Monitoring
Kavkaz Center
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