[ARE SOLE]

Second, we know that in the long term, Russia is in very serious trouble because it is simply running out of Russians. To sustain economic growth, a nation needs a growing population. Increasing the number of people requires either babies to be born in sufficient numbers or immigration -- or both. Moscow's problem is that it has neither. Even neutral population growth requires 2.1 live births per couple. Russia's birthrate is less than 1.6 -- and nobody immigrates to Russia.

[RusIvan]

and nobody immigrates to Russia. ==

Accualy Russia today has 15 mlns of the illegal immigrant population. It is even more then in US. SO a lot who is immigrating in Russia these days.