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    Burn them nazis


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    Russia Classifies Population Data as Birth Rates Plunge to 200-Year Low

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    Demographer Alexey Raksha, who previously worked with Russia's Federal State Statistics Service (Rosstat), said the agency recently ceased publishing detailed demographic data.

    In its monthly report published on May 16, Rosstat omitted figures for births and deaths for the most recent reporting period, along with monthly data on marriages and divorces, Raksha said.

    Of the five demographic tables previously published by Rosstat, only one remained in the latest report. It provided data on births, deaths, marriages and divorces only as a ulative total from the beginning of the year, he said.

    "In fact, since March 2025, there have been almost no publicly available demographic statistics in Russia," Raksha wrote.

    "The level of demographic panic within the government has reached epic proportions," he continued.

    In March, Raksha said Russia might be seeing its lowest birth rates since the late 1700s. Births dropped by 6 to 7 percent in February and by 3 to 4 percent in March, the demographer said.

    In the first quarter of 2025, between 293,000 and 294,000 births were registered in Russia—2.4 percent lower than the first quarter of last year, he said.
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    Ukraine!

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    God bless Mama Rossya


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    God bless Mama Rossya

    Kursk was a total failure for Ukraine.

    I guess waiting until after you've put yourself in the worst possible situation on the battlefield to pursue a ceasefire was not such a great idea

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    Kursk was a total failure for Ukraine.

    I guess waiting until after you've put yourself in the worst possible situation on the battlefield to pursue a ceasefire was not such a great idea
    PR war operations usually end in ruin

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    Speaking of worthless PR operations....

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    Speaking of worthless PR operations....

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    Ce la vi


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    Pretty good plan IMO

    And Kiev would be less than 1 hr drive from the Russian Federation


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    Leaked files reveal lawyers, politicians in Lithuania on Kremlin’s payroll

    The Foundation for the Protection of the Rights of Compatriots Living Abroad, known as Pravfond, was established by a decree signed by Russian President Vladimir Putin in 2011 and is officially overseen by Russia’s Foreign Ministry.

    It is led by Alexander Udaltsov, a former Russian ambassador to Lithuania, and has been confirmed by the intelligence services of Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia and other Western nations to have direct ties to Russia’s security services.

    The organisation provides funding to individuals working abroad on behalf of the Kremlin, including spies, propagandists and various other pro-Russian activists, as well as lawyers defending them in court cases.

    Pravfond paid for the defence of Viktor Bout, the Russian arms trafficker known as the Merchant of Death, who was imprisoned in the United States before being exchanged for American basketball player Brittney Griner. Since June 2023, Pravfond has been subject to sanctions for its role in Russia’s aggression against Ukraine and activities targeting Western nations.

    A cache of 49,000 emails and 22,000 attached do ents from five Pravfond email accounts was obtained by Danish public broadcaster DR and shared with an international group of journalists coordinated by investigative journalism network OCCRP.

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    Day 1,185 of the 3-5 days Russian invasion....

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    Lets go!!


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    Lol

    Exchanging imprisoned russian babushkas and grandpas for your nazis


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    No cure for war

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    In January, the Health Ministry warned of pending shortages of 86 medicines, including human immunoglobulin, ibuprofen and even iodine. In August, the list extended to almost 200 items.

    According to data from Russian medical market research company RNC Pharma, Russia stopped importing medicines containing 99 active substances last year, equivalent to 8% of all imported items.

    This year, a report by the market research DSM Group found that the range of foreign medicines available had decreased by a further 20%.

    A report published in January by Russian newspaper Izvestia found that 99% of pharmacists admitted to shortages of medicines in 2022. We estimate that 20% of life-saving medicines are unavailable in pharmacies in regional capitals and almost 40% are difficult to access, i.e. available in under 100 pharmacies.

    Some medicines have been unavailable in Russia for years, though most of the unavailable life-saving drugs disappeared from pharmacies in the past two years.

    This covers 30% of cancer medicines, and 20% of medicines used to treat blood diseases and congenital abnormalities.

    Whereas in Moscow you can still find 75% of brand name medicines, in more remote locations, such as the southern Russian cities of Rostov-on-Don or Pyatigorsk, pharmacies have under half of all subsidised medicines available. In Vladivostok, in the Russian Far East, that shortfall is 64%.

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    ...

    Russia doesn’t make as much stuff as they would like people to believe. In fact, a lot of stuff is very barely made in Russia, but still called domestic.

    And, as I warned you last year, Russian agriculture is in a lot of trouble.

    There are very few things I’ve seen the Kremlin worry about, and food prices are one of them.

    Russia has already essentially exhausted their stockpiles of the previous year’s harvest. They’re relying on imports for a lot of basic foods and food is a big portion of an average Russians budget.

    So, by further STRENGTHENING the ruble, Russia can provide *some* relief on those costs, or at least try to make the pain slow down.

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    So, a lot of these farmers in Russia are going under. The ones that haven’t are barely holding on.

    As you can see, under these cir stances, where you have to plant a bigger area to get close to the same yields, that requires more work.

    The labor shortage continues to be a major problem, and Russia is at risk of losing a million migrant laborers simply because they can’t pay them enough.

    Putin had suggested that Russia would solve its labor problems through robots and mechanization. But….

    The farmers have already been bled dry of profits and they barely scraping by. They can’t afford to mechanize things more.

    And as a result, the agricultural equipment industry in Russia is collapsing. That’s the opposite of mechanization.

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    They’re both, nationalizing everything AND talking about privatizing more things.

    You can imagine how those things are contradictory.

    Privatizations, because they need the revenue, so they’ll try to sell off assets.

    But also, remember all the capital they squeezed out of all these businesses? Well that’s a problem, and this is how they thing they can fix that.

    But who in their right mind would buy it? And with what money?

    Russia has been burning bridges with the international business community. They’re toxic.

    So no matter how much Russia tries to say otherwise, foreign businesses aren’t returning, and China isn’t investing in the grand scheme, they’re disinvesting.

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    3 years of hearing about Russia's imminent collapse and yet it's Ukraine that's demanding a ceasefire....

    Frankly, it's sad coping at this point.

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