- In the first six months of 2005, the Russian population fell by half a million;
- By the middle of this century Russia could lose up to half of its people, according to Russian government stats;
- Life expectancy for men is 56 years, the same as Bangladesh;
- Ten years ago, the life expectancy for men in Russia was 63;
- The World Health Organisation says that at a conservative estimate more than a million people will have died because of AIDS in Russia by 2020;
- Every other newborn baby is diagnosed with a disease at birth;
- There are more abortions every year in Russia than babies are born;
- Thanks to ill-health, 10 million Russians are infertile;
- A quarter of the population lives below the poverty line;
- Paradoxically, Moscow has more billionaires than any other city in the world;
- Although Russia's population is in freefall, they're still throwing people out. Thirty thousand Meshket Turks have recently had to seek gained asylum in America, having been forced from their homes in the south of the country by discriminatory laws and racist attacks.
Lisa, if the bible has taught us anything - and it hasn't - it's that girls should stick to girl's sports, such as hot-oil wrestling, foxy boxing and such and such.
Russia lost the Cold War - the Americans and, to a lesser extent the UK, outspent them in technology - the USSR spent so much on defending itself against potential attacks from the West that it collapsed. Fortunately for us all, they didn't decide to sod this for a game of soldiers and press their red button on a gamble they might win.
At the end of the day, Capitalism had a bigger overdraft than Communism.
