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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

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Sun Mar 21, 2021, 02:55 PM Mar 2021

'People die or they leave': Putin fails in promise to repopulate Russia

Even before the pandemic struck, Gorokhovets, a picturesque medieval church town some five hours’ drive from Moscow, was dying. As other businesses struggle, at least one sector is growing: the settlement recently saw the opening of its third funeral parlour.

“People either die or they leave,” said Yulia Balandina, the manager of one of the funeral homes.

Ms Balandina, pictured below, estimates that coronavirus has increased her workload by around 10 per cent. Other funerals she has arranged in recent months point to different, long-standing problems in Russia: a father, mother and daughter who died on the same day after drinking bootleg alcohol together, and depressingly regular suicides among young men.

Russia’s population fell by almost 600,000 over the last year to 146 million, according to official statistics, in its sharpest decline in the past 15 years. This month, Russia reported its first fall in life expectancy since 2003.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/people-die-leave-putin-fails-131834351.html

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'People die or they leave': Putin fails in promise to repopulate Russia (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Mar 2021 OP
putin syndrome nt msongs Mar 2021 #1
I bet the Russian death rate is higher than they admit. Irish_Dem Mar 2021 #2
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