Russia`s population up for the 1st time since 1995

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Must be all those state-sponsored sex parties.

It's actually the state sponsored pro-natal policy. Something a lot of European countries could (and should) copy.

A policy that is paying you infinitecimal peanuts, that, possibly, if you are very lucky and have right connections will cover a miniscule share of your child-related costs. Give me a break. It's, actually, mostly, the simple fact that the current child-bearing generation is a bit larger than the previous one: the war and purge years are still being felt.

http://www.gks.ru/free_doc/2006/b06_11/05-03-1.htm

This is the picture from 2005, so add 5 years, and you'll get the largest generation to be around 25 or a bit over it: prime child-bearing age. Now, look further down the diagram, and satisfy yourself that this isn't going to last, unfortunately, for the same demographic reason.

[ag]

None of what is being talked about here is really an explanation. This is it, though:

http://www.gks.ru/free_doc/2006/b06_11/05-03-1.htm

This picture is from 2005, add a few years and you get the following

1. The largest generation is in their upper 20s: it's the prime child-bearing range.

2. The  smallest generation is around 65 - a prime mortality age is right there (those who have survived longer will live a few years more). 65 years of the Victory, you know.

It's remarkable, how clear this diagram is. You can see the 30s (purges and famines), you can see the 40s (WWII), you can see, how Russia is still trying to digest those, like a giant python digesting a kid. B-r-r.

[ag]

Actually, it was the result of Russia cutting off the adoption market to foreign countries, instead opting to allow children to be "raised" in Hellhole orphanages, so as to attain their nationalistic goals of returning glory to "Mother Russia".

ing sick.

Nah. That's peanuts.

[ag]

I hope these are ethnic Russians coming in from other CIS states. Otherwise, more immigration of ethnic aliens will just lead to fascism, as we saw in Western Europe.

That has largely happened already. Russia has had a larg in-migration all these years. I don't think there are many ethnic Russians in the "Republics" left who are still planning to come. And, in fact, even if they do, it's not very easily done: unless they got their Russian citizenship by late 1990s, they'd need to be naturalized, and, all the talk to the contrary, it's not easily doable. The biggest supply of Russian citizens outside of Russia in the ex-USSR is now, probably, in the Baltics, but those are not likely to move en masse. Also, of course, nearly everyone in Abkhazia and South Osetia carries a Russian passport - but these aren't ethnic Russians. Otherwise, it's mostly job seekers now, irrespective of ethnicity or passport. But, anyway, the main change is not the immigration - it is what I posted right above.