Russia's demographic crisis

[Wojtek Sokolowski]

At 04:59 PM 6/7/2002 +0400, Chris wrote:
>Profil
>No. 19
>June 2002
>[translation from RIA Novosti for personal use only]
>RUSSIA IN THE MIRROR OF STATISTICS
>Irina VOROBYEVA, Ilya KHARLASHKIN
>
>      Over the first two months of 2002, Russia's population
>decreased by 160,200 people, or by 0.1 percent, to amount to

What is driving those trends: emigration, high mortality, low birth rates?

Wojtek