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Apparently not yet they don't, but they will in 10 years time.
I read something really interesting on this last week which might have fed into Putin's timing for doing this.
Essentially it said that Russia doesn't yet have an ageing population because male life expectancy used to be so low - something like 57 - that a generation of people didn't get old. But they have a boom of people aged 18-27 - ie military age - which will last for 10 years. Then they will have an aging population, and low birth rates of the last 10-20 years mean they will have a much smaller pool of potential conscripts to recruit.
frank9755
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Russia has a real issue with an ageing population. Wouldn't one of the best ways to hurt Russia to make it easier for Russians to emigrate to the Western World? I'm thinking particularly younger and educated populations who are less likely to be brainwashed by Putin and friends.
Hopefully a larger diaspora would increase the inflow of Western ideas back into Russia and further cripple the Russian state.
Concerns would be that this would weaken any opposition forces in Russia and provide flow of revenues back to family in Russia propping up the state...