[Mount Athos]

I have long recognized that Russia's negative growth rate is a certain future crisis that could doom the country.

The government needs to do much more to encourage more births.

[rdcorso]

I just watched a show on National Geographic about Russian women who marry American men and move to America.The women who were interviewed had nothing good to say about Russian men.The Russian men were called drunks,mamma's boys and bums who weren't looking for a wife but someone to take the place of their mother.I was surprised at the number of women who were willing to leave everything behind to marry an American who was usually twenty to twenty five years older than her.