You blew it!
Instead, you dispatched liberal financial idiots and promptly destroyed any chance that Russia had for a rapid recovery.
Eventually, Russia will become one of the most important financial powers on Earth, but it will take decades for them to achieve that potential.
Thank you for a very thought-provoking post
But there is a deeper problem. Communism drove religion from the land with oppression and murder. Today, there are very few vestiges of Christianity left, and as a result, Russians have no moral compass.
The head of the Lenin Academy of Sciences once asked a Christian professor and thinker (Ravi Zacharias) to speak to the scientists about ethics and morality, because they were so barren of either.
In an article filled with dreadful statistics this one really caught my eye. I think the percentage was higher in the Roman Empire than in the Russia of today.
May we have a moment of silence please.
My brother-in-law is seriously courting a gal from Moscow whom he met through a neighbor. Her brother, a businessman, was recently murdered by mobsters looking to partner with him. She wants out for herself and her daughter; one kid has already married a PO from Colorado.
There are at least a hundred-thousand Ukranian and russian gals posting on websites, looking for husbands in economically free countries. They are Christian professionals (doctors, lawyers, college students)who want lots of kids and security. One site alone boasts over 50,000 nuptials arrainged since 1973!
US, AU, UK, .......that's where they're going! (and fine, fine women they are....a friend told me)
The article is great but its gloom and doom ignores several parameters. The default played a huge role in the suppression of the birthrate as well as people immigrating elsewhere. As people stoped leaving en masse and the ecconomy became a bit more active instead of being dead the situation improved. Other factors are the institution of root re-integration. Financial insentives for larger families and per child subsidy. Also Orthodox revival and activism with the daily life to encourage families and prpogation. The situation looks horrible at present however I m trying to be optimistic and looked in many places for optimistic info.
Hopefully the birth rate will increase just by how much is the question. The most optimistic I could get is 1.8-9 in 5 years maybe 2.5 in 10 if a baby boom occured in the next 5 years it would stimulate a revival but I cant see anything happening except I noticed the decrease in the age women give birth decreasing ergo women start having children earlier which is semi-odd.
This piece gives an insight into the crisis of health and will in Russia. Coupled with an economy largely controlled by what might be cinsidered criminal elements, Russia is in serious trouble. Instead of progress after communism there is decline.
It is for these reasons that I give Putin a break. He must establish order within the chaos and must crack down to do so.
To build a functionong society, he must reorder a nonfunctioning free society. Imposition of harsh order is the way to exterminate the present thuggish evildoers who have gained control of the economy and exert strong control over daily life.
The retreat to strong arm governence is the only way to accomplish the task. The price of a free society is reduction of freewheeling.
Are we now seeing that utopian ideas are somehow faulted?
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leave it to a scholar to write 3000 words about a simple problem. Putin and the KGA gangsters have taken control of the country. People live in fear. Who wants to bring children into a world with no future. Immigrants come to America to get rich - YUKOS proves that if you get rich the State will steal it. That is the street wise reason the population is in decline. NO FUTURE
Actually, the Russian birth rate went from around 1.1 to 1.3 and rising over the past 4 years. The EU should worry more about itself, since minus the breeding Arabs, most Euros are around 1 to 1.2, especially the Italians and Germans.