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Russia is a vast but truncated[1] country in Europe and Asia. European Russia is generally considered to be west of the Ural mountains. The population in 2022 stood at 146,088,055, a steady rise since 1950. Of that population 107,486,269 are urban.[2] Previous to 1991 it had been the Soviet Union, a communist federation, which prior to 1917/18 had been the Russian Empire.

History

Ancient Russian principalities etc., 1054–1132
In the 1990s and into the 21st century, the United States' proxy force, NATO, deliberately and provocatively surrounded European Russia with military alliances and bases, supported by the European Union (EU). In February 2022 Russia invaded the breakaway (1992) republic of Ukraine as a result of disputed unsatisfactory permanent borders, and finally by Ukraine's proposals to join NATO and the EU.
Main article: History of Russia

History of Russia can be divided in to several stages.

  • The Kievan Rus (882–1283)
  • Grand Duchy of Moscow (1283–1547)
  • Tsardom of Russia (1547–1721)
  • Imperial Russia (1721–1917)
  • Soviet Russia (1917–1991)
  • Russian Federation (1991–current)

21st century

In 2013, one in five inhabitants of Russia were immigrants from Muslim countries.[3] In 2014, a quarter of Russia's richest people were Jews.[4]

Communistic rule

In both relative and absolute terms, Russia is one of the countries having suffered most in the hands of Communists. The Communist coup of 1917 and power consolidation during the civil war destroyed the existing Russian way of life, wiped away the thin layer of intelligentia that had kept the country on the path of civilization and rendered the Russian people in the hands of Communists who exploited them to spread war and destruction to other countries.

The attempt to build a Communist empire ended in failure and Russia sunk into one of the deepest crises of its history in the 1990s. The number of victims of Communism in Russia is subject to various estimates. According to the Black Book of Communism, some 20 million perished, while academic A. Yakovlev claims that the Communist-triggered civil war alone claimed some 13 million lives, topped by 5,5 million who starved to death in early 1920s and the 5 million famine dead of the 1930s. According to Yakovlev, 20–25 million people were executed or died in prison camps as a result of Communist terror. With millions killed by mass deportations, the number of victims could be between 50–60 million. This figure does not include the estimated 27 million Soviet lives lost in the Second World War that Stalin helped unleash.

Russia has yet to overcome the demographic, social and economic disaster inflicted by Communism.

Demographic issues

Russia has a significant non-White and often Muslim population with often high birth rates. There is also migration of Muslims to Russia from Asian Muslim countries. In 2006, Muslims were estimated to soon make up a majority of Russia’s conscript army, by 2020 be one-fifth of the population, and be more than half of the population by midcentury. A specialist on Islam in Russia argued that "Russia is going through a religious transformation that will be of even greater consequence for the international community than the collapse of the Soviet Union." Muslims migrants were also moving in large numbers to areas such as Moscow, which had 2.5 million Muslim inhabitants. Many Slavic Russians feared becoming a minority in their own country. Ethnic/racial tensions were stated to be increasing.[5]

In 2009, the number of Chinese immigrants were estimated to run into the millions. In sparely populated Siberia, there were fears that the Chinese were outnumbering the Russians in certain areas.[6]

In 2009, it was estimated that over the last 15 years, millions of Russian women had been ensnared in the sex trade and sold essentially as slaves, mainly to Muslim and Asian countries but also to Israel.[6]

Russia has taken various measures in order to improve the low (White) birth rate, which has caused positive effects, but the demographic situation has been argued to be problematic despite this.[7][8][9]

See also

Further reading

  • Volkoff, Vladimir, Vladimir, The Russian Viking, Honyglen Pubs., U.K., 1984, ISBN: 0-907855-02-4
  • Franklin, Simon, Writing, Society and Culture in Early Rus, c950-1300, Cambridge University Press, England, 2002, ISBN: 0-521-81381-6
  • Murray, John, Russia, Poland, and Finland, London, 1875.
  • Morfill, W.R., Russia, Fisher Unwin pubs., London, Second edition. 1891.
  • Winter, Nevin O., The Russian Empire, Page & co., Boston, 1913.
  • Howe, Sonia E., A Thousand years of Russian History, Williams & Norgate pubs., London, 1917.
  • Seton-Watson, Hugh, The Russian Empire 1801-1917, Clarendon Press, Oxford, England, 1967/1988, ISBN: 0-19-922103-7
  • Gatrell, Peter, The Tsarist Economy 1850-1917, Batsford pubs., London, 1986, ISBN: 0-7134-2584-9
  • Carr, Edward Hallett, The Bolshevik Revolution 1917-1923, Macmillan & Co., London, 1950.
  • Figes, Orlando, A People's Tragedy: The Russian Revolution 1891-1924, Jonathan Cape pubs., London,1996, ISBN: 0-224-04162-2
  • Korte, Stefan, Geopolitical Upheaval in Eastern Europe, www.Legatum-publishing.com, 2023, ISBN: 978-82-93925-23-1

External links

References

  1. White Russia and Ukraine both arbitrarily declared their independence from Russia in later 1991.
  2. https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/russia-population/
  3. Angela Merkel: Germany will become Islamic State!
  4. http://www.dailystormer.com/a-quarter-of-russias-richest-people-are-jews/
  5. Muslim birthrate worries Russia. The Washington Times - Monday, November 20, 2006. http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2006/nov/20/20061120-115904-9135r/
  6. 6.0 6.1 Russia at the Crossroads. Thomas Smith, Special to AR News, November 6, 2009. http://www.amren.com/news/2009/11/russia_at_the_c/
  7. 'Dying' Russia's Birth Rate Is Now Higher Than America's. http://www.forbes.com/sites/markadomanis/2014/04/11/dying-russias-birth-rate-is-now-higher-than-americas/
  8. 4 Things You Should Know About Russian Demography That Vanity Fair Won't Tell You. http://www.forbes.com/sites/markadomanis/2014/04/02/4-things-you-should-know-about-russian-demography-that-vanity-fair-wont-tell-you/
  9. Russia birthrate: Did Vladimir Putin Really boost the country's fertility by promising new mothers prize money and refrigators? Slate.com. http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_world_/2014/10/13/russia_birth_rate_did_vladimir_putin_really_boost_the_country_s_fertility.html