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Strategy Page: Winning: Russia Gains Crimea But Loses Over A Million Russians
Since Russia began invading and trying to annex parts of Ukraine in 2014 there has been a substantial shift in population. Since early 2014 nearly two million people have left Russia. More than half these were Westerners (including many from East European countries) working in Russia, providing skills that Russia did not have. The rest were Russians, most of them highly educated and with similar skills to the departing Westerners. What all these migrants had in common was a desire to get away from an increasingly authoritarian, intolerant and economically disastrous Russian government. About half the departing Westerners and skilled Russians were replaced by more (less educated and skilled) migrants from the east (Central Asia, North Korea, China and the Caucasus).
WNU Editor: My cousins daughter in Moscow asked me only yesterday if I can get for her the necessary papers so that she can apply to McGill University in 2016 when she is 19 (I live in Montreal where the university is located). This decline is happening for may reasons .... but the main one is economic .... people in Russia do not want to have children because of the high costs involved .... and are moving and/or looking elsewhere to better their lives.
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The Russian population chart looks like a stress strain curve.
When do we hit the fracture point?
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Stress_Strain_Ductile_Material.png
Oh yeah that is the point when the oligarchs have run the country into the ground so much that people raise 1 kid on average and the Muslims take over demographically.
This does seem to be a big problem for Russia combined with the fact that many reports suggest native Russians are not reproducing. I've always assumed this is a long range problem as opposed to a mid to short term problem but if people are now leaving at a faster pace this could become a problem much sooner than might be expected.
The current problems facing Russia of sanctions and low oil prices are only temporary. In contrast, the problems America has are far more numerous and more severe than those Russia has. The Russian leadership no doubt wakes up every morning thanking whatever God the believe in that the problems their country faces are no where near as severe as those faced by America!!
What is temporary about low oi prices? they will last another 2 to 4 months.
They may last 6 months to 2 years total or slightly longer. Iranian oil may come on line soon.
2 years is a long time budget wise. Longer if your economy is solely based on oil.
How are the U.S. problems worse than Russias?
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