The first time I went to Russia, I went via train and travelled through the extensive Moscow Subway system. I accidentally walked into what appeared to be an abortion clinic - they seemed to be ubiquitous. At the time the sign overhead said "Information" in Cyrillic, so not knowing, I stumbled in looking for directions and "information". Lo and behold it was full of young girls sitting looking sheepishly and watching some kind of gynecological video on a TV monitor. It didn't take me long to realize that this was some kind of an abortion center... a very bustling one at that. I came to the conclusion that the word which looked like "information" actually was a kind of trademark for some kind of corner abortion shop.
I soon consulted my Russian dictionary and found out the real Russian word for information - which is not at all similar to our English one (no cognate).
The last time I went (this spring), I didn't have the chance to take the subway, so couldn't see if this had changed since '94. Seeing the latest demographic statistics, I doubt that there has been a dramatic change.
BINGO!!!!!!!!
Russians (and most of East Europeans) developed a severe case of alergy to the censorship, official lies and propaganda. Probably uncurable. West will get the same disease in a fifty years or so.