14.In the words of former Russian Duma Deputy Sergei Kovalev, derzhavnostis a neo-Soviet ideology in which the state “is deified, placed above society, outside society, over society.” Sergei Kovalev, “On The New Russia,” New York Review of Books, April 18, 1996, http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/1996/apr/18/on-the-new-russia/?pagination=false.
15.See, for example, Bill Gertz, “The Bear At The Door,” Washington Free Beacon, June 26, 2012, http://freebeacon.com/the-bear-at-the-door/; Bill Gertz, “Putin’s July 4 thMessage,” Washington Free Beacon, July 6, 2012, http://freebeacon.com/putins-july-4th-message/.
16.See estimates included in Graeme P. Herd and Gagik Sargsyan, “Debating Russian Demographic Security: Current Trends and Future Trajectories,” PIR Center Security Index, no. 83 (September 2007): http://www.pircenter.org/media/content/files/0/13412429941.pdf.
17.Nicholas Eberstadt, “The Emptying of Russia,” Washington Post, February 13, 2004, A27.
18.Jonah Hull, “Russia Sees Muslim Population Boom,” Al-Jazeera(Doha), January 13, 2007, http://english.aljazeera.net/news/europe/2007/01/2008525144630794963.html; “Cherez polveka Musulmani v Rossii Mogut Stat Bolshenstvom—Posol MID RF [In Half a Century, Muslims in Russia Could Become the Majority—Russia’s OIC Ambassador],” Interfax (Moscow), October 10, 2007, http://www.interfax-religion.ru/islam/print.php?act=news&id=20767.
CHAPTER TWO
1.Fred Weir, “Putin Vows to Halt Russia’s Population Plunge With Babies, Immigrants,” Christian Science Monitor, February 14, 2012, http://www.csmonitor.com/World/2012/0214/Putin-vows-to-halt-Russia-s-population-plunge-with-babies-immigrants.
2.“Country Comparison: Total Fertility Rate,” Central Intelligence Agency World Factbook, https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/rankorder/2127rank.html.
3.Ibid.
4.Ibid.
5.Mark Steyn, America Alone: The End of the World as We Know It(Washington, D.C.: Regnery, 2007), xv.
6.Statistics compiled from United States Census Bureau, “International Data Base,” http://www.census.gov/population/international/data/idb/region.php.
7.“Country Comparison: Total Fertility Rate.”
8.Charles Clover, “Putin Hails Russian Birth-Rate Bounce,” Financial Times, December 21, 2012, http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/d65c12c4-4b71-11e2-88b5-00144feab49a.html#axzz2FHNUMdP1.
9.Paul Goble, “Russia’s Population Stabilization Only Temporary, Demographer Says,” Window on Eurasia, January 19, 2010, http://windowoneurasia.blogspot.com/2010/01/window-on-eurasia-russias-population.html.
10.Isabel Gorst, “Russia: Love Is Not All You Need,” Financial Times Beyond BRICs, August 2, 2012, http://blogs.ft.com/beyond-brics/2012/08/02/russia-love-is-not-all-you-need/#axzz22D4toNSs.
11.Stephan Sievert, Sergey Zakharov, and Reiner Klingholz, The Waning World Power: The Demographic Future of Russia and the Other Soviet Successor States(Berlin Institute for Population and Development, April 2011), http://www.berlin-institut.org/publications/studies/the-waning-world-power.html.
12.As recounted in Venyamin A. Baslachev, Demografiya: Russkie Proriv. Nezavisimoye Isledovanie(Demography: The Russian chasm; An independent investigation) (Moscow: Beluy Albii, 2006), 6.
13.Vserosiiskii Perepis Naselenie 2010, http://www.perepis-2010.ru/.
14.Vladimir Putin, “Building Justice: A Social Policy for Russia,” RT.com, February 13, 2012, http://rt.com/politics/official-word/putin-building-justice-russia-133/.
15.Ibid.
16.Ibid.
17.Grace Wong, “Russia’s Bleak Picture of Health,” CNN, May 19, 2009, http://edition.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/05/19/russia.health/index.html; see also Luke Harding, “No Country for Old Men,” Guardian, February 10, 2008, http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/feb/11/russia.
18.“List of Countries by Life Expectancy,” Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_life_expectancy.
19.Ben W. Heineman, Jr., “In Russia, A Demographic Crisis and Worries for Nation’s Future,” Atlantic, October 11, 2011, http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2011/10/in-russia-a-demographic-crisis-and-worries-for-nations-future/246277/.
20.Statistics compiled from the World Life Expectancy website, http://www.worldlifeexpectancy.com/.
21.Nicholas Eberstadt and Apoorva Shah, “Russia’s Great Leap Downward,” Journal of International Security Affairs, no. 17 (Fall 2009): 77.
22.Christopher True, “‘Ghost Villages’ Haunt Russian Vote,” Al Jazeera(Doha), March 2, 2012, http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/spotlight/russianelections/2012/03/20123272311679897.html.
23.Ibid.
24.William Moskoff, “Divorce in the USSR,” Journal of Marriage and Family45, no. 2 (May 1983): 419.
25.Ibid.
26.“Pervuye v Mire: Vimiraya, Razvodim Krabov” (First in the World: Dying Out, Divorce and Crabs), miloserdie.ru, http://www.miloserdie.ru/index.php?ss=20&s=36&id=17477.
27.V. I. Sakevich and B. P. Denisov, “The Future of Abortions in Russia,” Paper presented to EPC-2008, Barcelona, Spain, 2008, http://epc2008.princeton.edu/papers/80419.
28.Ibid.
29.World Health Organization, “Facts and Figures About Abortion in the European Region,” http://www.euro.who.int/en/what-we-do/health-topics/Life-stages/sexual-and-reproductive-health/activities/abortion/facts-and-figures-about-abortion-in-the-european-region.
30.“Pervuye v Mire: Vimiraya, Razvodim Krabov” (First in the World: Dying Out, Divorce and Crabs).
31.“Up To 2.5 Million Abortions Conducted in Russia Each Year,” Interfax, January 25, 2012, http://www.interfax-religion.com/?act=news&div=9004.
32.Sarah Mendelson, “The Security Implications of HIV/AIDS in Russia,” PONARS Policy Memo, no. 245 (February 2002): 2, http://www.gwu.edu/~ieresgwu/assets/docs/ponars/pm_0245.pdf.
33.Guy Faulconbridge, “Russia Warns Of AIDS Epidemic, 1.3 Mln With HIV,” Reuters, May 15, 2007, http://www.reuters.com/article/2007/05/15/us-russia-aids-idUSL1546187520070515.
34.Ibid.
35.Mansur Mirovalev, “Russian Drug Abuse Top Problem, According to Poll,” Associated Press, July 12, 2012, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/12/russia-drug-abuse_n_1667786.html.
36.Victoria MacDonald, “Russia Condemned for Its Futile Fight against AIDS,” News 4, July 19, 2012, http://www.channel4.com/news/russia-condemned-for-its-futile-fight-against-aids.
37.Simeon Bennett, “AIDS Deaths Surge in Russia and Ukraine, Defying Global Trend,” Bloomberg, November 21, 2011, http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-11-21/aids-deaths-surge-in-russia-and-ukraine-defying-global-trend.html.
38.Adam Taylor, “AIDS-Related Deaths Are Falling Everywhere In The World—But Not Here,” Business Insider, November 21, 2011, http://articles.businessinsider.com/2011-11-21/europe/30424547_1_unaids-report-aids-related-deaths-aids-epidemic.
39.Sergei L. Loiko, “Russians are Leaving the Country in Droves,” Los Angeles Times, November 14, 2011, http://articles.latimes.com/2011/nov/14/world/la-fg-russia-emigration-20111115.
40.As cited in “The Mood of Russia: Time To Shove Off,” Economist, September 13, 2011.