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Italy and Germany have other reasons for their declining birth rates. However the mismanagement of the Russian economy is definitely a factor in discouraging people there from having more children, as well as the increasing repression. I don't know what discussion of the failures of a stupid...

That assumes that the sanctions, which are directed towards the oligarchy that Putin leads rather than the country as a whole are responsible for Russia's economic problems rather than Putin's corruption and mismanagement.

Less curbed that took over from what I understand. However as you say the last decade or so as well as corruption his reign has been dominated by growing autocracy and brutal oppression of any dissenting viewpoint, which is never good for a society. The prime reason for the continued...

Lebed yes, but then he was army wasn't he, not KGB. I'm not sure I would say the same about Putin. He never seems to have overcome his training as a terrorist and only thinks about brute force and fear as ways of controlling people. Coupled with prolonged almost absolute power he's now making...

Interesting although at this distance in time especially most of those names mean little to me. IIRC the Baltics had already left and probably from the lack of its mention above also Georgia? Yeltsin is more ruthless and active than he was generally seen as later in the 1990's as Russian...