A specter is haunting Russia today. It is not the
specter of Communismthat ghost has been chained
in the attic of the pastâbut rather of
depopulationa relentless, unremitting, and
perhapps unstoppable depopulation. The mass
deaths associated with the Communist era may be
history, but another sort of mass death may have
only just begun, as Russians practice what amounts to an ethnic self-cleansing.
Since 1992, Russia's human numbers have been
progressively dwindling. This slow motion process
now taking place in the country carries with it
grim and potentially disastrous implications that
threaten to recast the contours of life and
society in Russia, to diminish the prospects for
Russian economic development, and to affect
Russia's potential influence on the world stage in the years ahead.
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