Russia is near collapse, statistical data testify. Degradation of education and intellectual capacity of skilled labor is continuing in this country in monstrous pace.
There are 4 million homeless, 3 million beggars, 3 million prostitutes in Russia, 6 million Russian citizens suffer from mental disorders, 5 million are drug addicts, more than 6 million suffer from AIDS.
10,000 abortions are conducted every day, despite the fact that 7 million couples have no children. More than 80,000 murders a year are committed. Around 30,000 people are killed in road traffic accidents. About 100 thousand Russians die each year from drug overdoses.
The number of inmates in the country is more than 1 million - more than in the USSR during the Stalin's repressions. Alcohol consumption in Russia makes, according to various sources, 14 to 18 liters of conditioned alcohol per person per year, that is more than twice the threshold of physical degradation of the nation.
31 million children under the age of 18 live in Russia. Healthy among them are not more than 30 percent, 3.5 million are disabled, 1 million are drug addicts. Orphans make about 750,000 persons more than at the end of World War II, when orphans made 678,000 persons). Two million children are illiterate, about 5 million are homeless.
In Russia, there are 1.5 million civil servants today, which is three times more than in the USSR. According to the Federal Statistics Service, the number of officials over the past decade doubled. Only in the last 4 years, their number increased by 130 thousand people.
About 33.5 billion dollars are spent annually for bribery of officials.
In coal mining, Russia sank to the level of 1957, in production of trucks - 1937, combines - 1933, tractors - 1931, cars and textiles - 1910, boots - 1900. Aircraft, electronic, automotive industry has been almost completely destroyed. But oil and gas exports rose from $ 76 billion in 1999 to $ 350 billion in 2008.
Ugly urbanization is continuing. 23,000 villages disappeared in Russia over the last 20 years.
The total decline in population makes 900,000 people a year (these are understated official figures, according to unofficial, over 2 million Russian are dying each year - KC)
Independent Russian experts point out that a system collapse can occur at any moment.
Tatarstan, Bashkortostan, Karelia, and not to mention the North Caucasus, will declare independence in early days of a large-scale crisis. Other regions may soon follow their example.
Department of Monitoring
Kavkaz Center
