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"I do not rule Russia; ten thousand clerks do." Nicholas I
* Century of Antohins (new 2005) In 1990 I suggested that USSR should be renamed into "Moscovia" as it was called before Ivan the Terrible. Why bother with "Russia"? The disintegration is on... Read on.
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 2004 & After
SummaryТы -- душа божья, человек -- был на земле, а нынче земля на небе. Коммунизм следовал из отрицания Христианством земной природы. А земной человек недостоин неба -- потому растрелы. Или надо назад к Ветхому Завету? Так ли уж душа прекраснее тела? Вель кроме звериной есть и растительная природа поти, мирная... "Душа населения" -- в коммунистическом определении дьвольская точность намеков на божественную суть вещей. Два несовместимых слова. Душа -- узнаю, население -- знаю. Это и есть лучшее опредение мой личности. Разве что "Мертвые Души" лучше. (Дневники)Questions"The secret of politics? Make a good treaty with Russia." Otto von BismarckNotes
2003. Russia, with a population of 145 million, accounts for less than 2% of world exports, including oil and gas. That is less than Spain’s share with its 40 million people. In 1913, Russia accounted for 3.8% of the world’s grain exports. Ninety years later, its share has fallen to 1%. Russia’s share of foreign direct investment (FDI) flows hovers at about 0.25% of total FDI. Russia is a minor and peripheral player in the globalized economy. Tensions between Russian minorities — which make up more than 30% of the population in Latvia and Estonia, 38% in Kazakhstan, 22% in Ukraine and 13% in both Moldova and Belarus — are problematic as well. In the 20 years after 1917 — in other words, before the institutionalized Stalinist terror — over three million people left the country, many of them scientists, writers and artists. Beyond the country’s human and cultural resources, there is its immense wealth in energy and natural resources. This wealth is an asset and a potential great opportunity — but it can also be a millstone around the Russian economy’s neck. The Center for Scientific Research and Statistics reports that average monthly wage in scientific institutions was lower than $200 last year. This is one of the reasons why graduates often agree to start some other trades, not those obtained at the university. GLOSSARY (according to Russians): Censorship: This is the right and responsibly of the authorities to determine the quality and condition of the public sphere. Censorship has a large following, hoping to see the end of paid-for political articles in the media, ending the transmission of pornographic images during prime time television board casts, and protecting what are believed to be national values. Capitalism: An economic system that benefits a very small minority. While not necessarily a pejorative term, it does connote extreme social and economic inequality, as well as indifference to the common good. Cold War: The conflict that the Soviet Union did not lose, but the United States claims to have won. Many Russians consider this conflict, with Russia as the legal and historic successor of the Soviet Union, as a source of pride -- international prestige (even if it was actually feared), technical advancement and economic prosperity at home. Demagogue: See Liberal. Oligarchy: What "Forbes Russia" calls Russia's 100 wealthiest individuals, is society's "100 Most Wanted." Why income generated from Russia’s natural wealth should benefit the very few, with one buying an English football team, is insulting to Russia’s impoverished workers, pensioners and most of the country beyond the oasis of wealth called Moscow. Ownership of land: This should be very restricted and controlled. Unfettered right to purchase land would not only result in the oligarchs and foreigners controlling the economy, but end in complete title over sovereign Russia. Property: It still has not been decided who stole what, when. This idea will be resolved once the economic crimes of the 1990s have been resolved. State: Without a strong and respected state, Russia will collapse -- like it almost did during the 1990s. [ Peter Lavelle is an independent Moscow-based analyst and the author of the electronic newsletter on Russia "Untimely Thoughts" (untimely-thoughts.com) ]
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ANOTHER POPULATION DECLINE RECORDED.
Russia's population dipped by 401,000 or 0.3 percent in 1998 compared with the previous year, according to a preliminary estimate by the State Statistics Committee, ITAR-TASS reported on 4 February. In 1997, the population also fell by 0.3 percent. As of 1 January, 146 million people lived in Russia. JAC
Jan. 5, 1999 RL
That figure comes from a U.S. Information Agency- sponsored survey of more than 2,000 residents of the Russian Federation. Conducted in September-October 1998 and released last month, this poll not only helps to answer "just how bad" poverty in Russia now is but, equally important, undercuts some assumptions about how Russians are dealing with their economic difficulties. The poll's findings about subsistence farming are perhaps the most striking. More than half of all Russians -- some 55 percent--currently grow approximately half or more of their food in private gardens, at their dachas, or on other plots of land. Only 27 percent, the poll found, do not grow any of the food they consume--and that in a country whose population remains more than 70 percent urban.
But this is just one of the ways Russians are trying to cope at a time when only 50 percent of Russian adults are employed and only one in four of those who are employed are being paid on a more or less regular basis.
Not surprisingly, many Russians are turning to family and friends. Some 57 percent of those polled had borrowed money, and another 52 percent had accepted assistance of one kind or another from family or friends in the six months before the poll. But most expressed fear that this source may be drying up. Fewer than 40 percent said they believe they can count on this source of alternative income if things become even worse. Russians are not turning to two potential sources of income that many have assumed they are using to keep afloat.
As the USIA report notes, "contrary to popular accounts, the substitution of barter for wares overall is not that prevalent." And workers not paid on time are not making money "in a flourishing second economy."
With regard to barter, the survey found that in the six months before the poll, only 27 percent of those working had received goods in lieu of wages and that in half of these cases, this was only a one- or two-time event. And the survey found such wage substitutes are doing little to help those not being paid on a regular basis. Some 35 percent of workers who have either not been paid or have been paid more than a month late "never receive payment in kind," the report said.
With regard to the question of second jobs, the USIA survey failed to find much evidence that Russians are making use of them to supplement their incomes. While some may have underreported their participation in such jobs owing to concerns about taxation, 82 percent said they do not have a second job. Only 10 percent said they have a regular second job, and only 6 percent indicated they sometimes do.
Moreover, most of these jobs provide relatively little income. Forty-three percent of those with such jobs say it provides them with less than 25 percent of their income; only 16 percent say that it provides more than half. Given the assumptions many have made about the role of the second economy in Russia, the USIA survey intriguingly found that those not paid regularly are no more likely to have a second job than those who are paid on time. That lack of individual entrepreneurship in much of the Russian labor force was reflected in another finding of the USIA-sponsored poll: namely, that large majorities of working Russians were unwilling to leave their current jobs even if they are not being paid on a regular basis. Most believe that it would be difficult, if not impossible, to find an equivalent position quickly or at all. And all are aware that the government is unlikely to provide them with unemployment benefits in the interim. Indeed, two out of three unemployed Russians today have never received such benefits. Given such concerns and difficulties, Russians are turning toward subsistence, an obvious survival strategy and one that represents an unspoken call for help from the outside.
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Population: 143,782,338 (July 2004 est.)
Population growth rate: -0.45% (2004 est.)
chancery: 2650 Wisconsin Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20007
telephone: [1] (202) 298-5700, 5701, 5704, 5708
FAX: [1] (202) 298-5735
Diplomatic representation from the US:
chief of mission: Ambassador Alexander VERSHBOW
embassy: Bolshoy Devyatinskiy Pereulok No. 8, 121099 Moscow
mailing address: PSC-77, APO AE 09721
telephone: [7] (095) 728-5000
FAX: [7] (095) 728-5090
Economy - overview:
Russia ended 2003 with its fifth straight year of growth, averaging 6.5% annually since the financial crisis of 1998. Although high oil prices and a relatively cheap ruble are important drivers of this economic rebound, since 2000 investment and consumer-driven demand have played a noticeably increasing role. Real fixed capital investments have averaged gains greater than 10% over the last four years and real personal incomes have averaged increases over 12%. Russia has also improved its international financial position since the 1998 financial crisis, with its foreign debt declining from 90% of GDP to around 28%. Strong oil export earnings have allowed Russia to increase its foreign reserves from only $12 billion to some $80 billion. These achievements, along with a renewed government effort to advance structural reforms, have raised business and investor confidence in Russia's economic prospects. Nevertheless, serious problems persist. Oil, natural gas, metals, and timber account for more than 80% of exports, leaving the country vulnerable to swings in world prices. Russia's manufacturing base is dilapidated and must be replaced or modernized if the country is to achieve broad-based economic growth. Other problems include a weak banking system, a poor business climate that discourages both domestic and foreign investors, corruption, local and regional government intervention in the courts, and widespread lack of trust in institutions. In addition, a string of investigations launched against a major Russian oil company, culminating with the arrest of its CEO in the fall of 2003, have raised concerns by some observers that President PUTIN is granting more influence to forces within his government that desire to reassert state control over the economy.
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"Русь слиняла в два дня. Самое большее — в три. Даже “Новое Время” нельзя было закрыть так скоро, как закрылась Русь. Поразительно, что она разом рассыпалась вся, до подробностей, до частностей. И собственно, подобного потрясения никогда не бывало, не исключая “Великого переселения народов”. Там была — эпоха, “два или три века”. Здесь — три дня, кажется даже два. Не осталось Царства, не осталось Церкви, не осталось войска, и не осталось рабочего класса. Чтo же осталось-то? Странным образом — буквально ничего." Rozanov
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The population of the Russian Federation, under last update, makes, approximately, 134.000.000 the person. From them of 73,1 % (97.954.000) live in cities and settlements of city type, and in Moscow 9.269.000, in Moscow region 6.900.00, in St. Petersburg 5.897.000, in Leningrad region 2.350.000. The total of cities with the population more than one million makes 15.
From the common population
65 % are made with people pension and a pre pension age - 87.100.000
Staff of army together with contractors, soldiers of urgent service, civilians and the personnel auxiliary and repair divisions - 2.487.000
Officers of air defense, frontier guards, ensigns and soldiers of urgent service - 1.275.000
Regular employees of Federal Security Service, Federal agency for government communication and information, Federal Guard Service, External Intelligence Service and so forth - 1.458.000
The device the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and representations (the United Nations, UNESCO, so forth) - 782.000
Regular employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Traffic police, Ministry of Justice and the Ministry of Emergency Measures - 2.246.000
Workers of tax polices, inspections, customs houses, etc. - 1.492.000
Employees of the other federal ministries and departments - 1.695.000
Employees of devices of power structures with deputies - 1.370.000
Employees every possible licensing, supervising and registration bodies - 1.373.000
Clerks of pension, social, insurance and other funds - 2.218.000
Others, separately not named state employees - 1.131.000
The unemployed (according to Government Statistic Committee for December 2001) - 5.900.000
Clergymen and attendants religious and cult constructions - 592.000
The organized criminal groupings, simply "friends" and prisoners - 1.857.000
Constantly living and working abroad - 2.489.000
Total: 114.092.000 the person which make nothing and exist or at the expense of the budget, or at the expense of a solvent part of the population.
There is 19.908.000 a person. So, that's all. All of taxable base.
Into which, by the way, enter also all juvenile children, schoolboys, students, housewives, every possible invalids, orphans, homeless, vagabonds, chronically and mentally patients, compelled immigrants, refugees, migrants and so forth and so forth and so forth.
Besides in Russia, only registered Addicts - more than 870.000 Alcoholics - from above 1.580.000 Patients with a tuberculosis - about 370.000 AIDS infected - not less than 240.000 person And tendencies to reduction in these parameters it is not observed yet. By the way, about illnesses. 93 % of the medicines sold through shared drugstores, or are forged, or do not correspond to quality indicators.
It is useful to take into account also, that on official statistics average life expectancy Russian men makes 58 years, women manage to hold out already up to 64, that, in general, not surprisingly at the average salary 4.522 rubles a month and an official living wage in 1.804 rubles (the data of Government Statistic Committee, 2002). Amount of the Russian souls with incomes is lower than this level makes 42.200.000.
However, the population of Russia steadily decreases not only for the bill " the natural loss population " as officials are gracefully expressed.
Only in road and transport incidents which in Russia the last year has taken place 72.000, annually perishes about 12.000 person, the number injured exceeds 84.000. A gain of parameters about 16 % one year. For the period since August 1999 till June, 2002, only in the Chechnian Republic, according to Committee of soldier's mothers, was lost not less than 11.500 military men. Injured, becoming invalids, it is not difficult imagine for itself to present number.
Annually, within the framework of the program of reception of refugees and reunion of families, 56.000 person from the former CIS, basically from Russia, the USA accept. 27.000, in spite of on anything, leave for Israel. 12.000 the quota of Australia makes. 9.000 Germany accurately chooses. 7.500 prefer Canada. 5.800 enter marriages with foreigners and too, for some reason, leave. Total: -117.300 the person of the most educated, business and active in one year.
Also it is only official figures reflecting number made out exit has put on the permanent residence. And who considers those who leaves under guest invitations, to student's and working visas?
Hope on birth rate especially it is not necessary, as the increase in population makes only 0,3 % (402.000 person) in one year.
According to analysts of the government crisis center to supervise territory of Russia, and it only 17.075.400 sq. km and 58.322 km's of border, the population less than 50 million person it is impossible only physically, since density of it of the population, in this case, than 2,9 person on square kilometer will make less. (For comparison: population density of Germany makes 235 person on sq. km, the USA - 26,97.) Taking into account all above-stated, Russia can already appear in this situation in 6 years. Can be therefore the Russian politics so easily promise the voters anything you like, but only in 10 years. There will be nobody to ask. And there is nobody. In fact, at today's rates of extraction, oil in Russia will end in 20 years, a maximum. There will be only a wood. Only who will saw it... By the way. Only 8.000.000 Russians had passports for travel abroad.
the Comment of R&F Agency: such affairs, Russians...
the Note: Specification of above mentioned figures appeared business not simple and more is not finished. We shall be grateful for the help in an establishment of the true data on a population The Russian Federation in various categories and foreign diaspora(s).
the Offer: Enter itself in a history of the country! Take part in national census!
the Wish: The link to sources of the information will be the extremely desirable.
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