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07/26/2007: "Russians concerned about self genocide"

Demographers have provided dire statistics depicting a sharp decline in Russia’s population in the next few decades—and said that St. Petersburg, which loses an average of 70 people every day and has the lowest birth rate in the nation, could be hit hardest.

But “the real concern in Russia’s official circles is about an extinction of Russians as a race, rather than population decline in its traditional sense,” says Dubrovsky, adding that it was one of the factors that prompted President Vladimir Putin last year to adopt a special policy aimed at “calling ethnic Russians abroad back home, but restricting migration for other nationalities.”

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http://www.amren.com/mtnews/archives/2007/07/demographic_fut.php