Russia's Population Problem Goes Back to the 19th Century

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Federica coco is a statistical journalist for the f t. She says russia's population problem also goes back to the 19 nineties. After the fall of the soviet union, there was a big economic crisis across the region. Federica: Many believe that with this war, puton is shooting himself in the foot.

Investors are bracing for another tough report on US inflation, Putin’s war in Ukraine has sparked an exodus of educated professionals from Russia and could worsen the country’s population decline, and conservative shareholder activists in the US have filed a record number of proposals this year as they try to counter what they call “woke-ism” in corporate America.

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