The population of Russia as of January 1, 1998, was 147.1 million people. The country's population has been declining for seven years now. It decreased by 1.6 million people over 1992-96 alone, and the population losses are continuing.

iPerestroika/i is affecting various aspects of life in Soviet society more and more deeply. The emergence of positive demographic trends is one of the most gratifying changes in recent times. For more than just a single year there has been growing concern on the part of specialists and public...

"The Russian crisis is in particular and above all an agricultural crisis," Pavel Miliukov wrote in his book [iThe Russian Crisis/i],sup1/sup which was published at the beginning of the twentieth century in France and the United States. This was a true but incomplete assessment because the...

The disintegration of the USSR will inevitably be followed by a new migratory situation. The changes may be very significant and may have consequences that are important not only for CIS countries but for the entire international community as well. The new migratory trends are characterized by...