Given short life expectancy for Russian males, high abortion rate among Russian females, females fleeing Russia in droves, and the highest alcoholism & alcohol-related death rate in the world, I’d say Vladimir Vladimirovich is whistling past a graveyard.
perhaps, but they’re clawing their way up as we’re clawing our way down.
“Given short life expectancy for Russian males, high abortion rate among Russian females, females fleeing Russia in droves, and the highest alcoholism & alcohol-related death rate in the world, I’d say Vladimir Vladimirovich is whistling past a graveyard.”
Don’t forget:
- Stagnant un-diversified economy;
- plenty o’ Muslims in the *-stan countries;
- Chechnya. Says it all;
They are so screwed in the long run.
They are screwed