Russia seems to be entering a kind of demographic doom loop, says John Defterios. Russia's process is much faster, it's associated with levels of misery that you just don't see in a country like Japan," he says. The main way other countries have found to sort of keep the economy going even while it aged was by ramping up education - but Russia doesn't really have that ability., defterios says.

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