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RUSSIA'S DEPOPULATION PROBLEM Causes and Results. Is Russia Dying? December 2022 By Sedat LAÇİNER (PhD) The slowdown in population growth is the general problem of the modern and developed world. The comforts of modern life and certain features of the 'new society' are driving fertility rates down rapidly. In the 2000s, populations in many OECD countries either stagnated or regressed. Decline of population growth can cause many vital problems in the economy, politics and social relations. Chief among these problems is the difficulties in financing the aging population. The decrease in the proportion of the young population in the total population also negatively affects business life, negatively affecting productivity and creativity in the labor market. Just as the aging of a person causes negativities, the aging of a society brings similar problems: Aging nations begin to lose their vital functions, and they lose their flexibility and productivity in many areas from ec...

  By Prof. Dr. Sedat LACINER -  Contrary to his past practices, President Vladimir Putin sent Russian tanks and planes into Ukraine at a speed that no one expected and almost without any preliminary mental preparation and softening the international public opinion; attempted to brutally invade or even destroy a sovereign country. I'm sure Putin and his advisers don't see it that way, and I'm sure they wholeheartedly believe they are right, their actions seem legitimate and legal to them. However, there are very few people in the world who see the Ukraine War from Putin 's point of view, and it would be unrealistic to attribute this to Western propaganda alone. The Western world knew that Putin was authoritarian and unreliable, especially in domestic politics but he has never been considered as an unpredictable or crazy in international relations. On the contrary, the European Union (EU) and the US addressed Putin 's Russia on many issues and saw it as a pa...