- https://youtu.be/L0WzkkFrox4
- https://youtu.be/l7fBhPOQ5PE
A random video using street view time lapse to show how much things have improved over the past decade. There’s many like this. And compare these to scenes in America.
The immigration numbers, and I'm sure you know this, represent a lot of ethnic Russians in neighboring former soviet satellites moving to Russia so I'm not sure it's particularly impressive as a stat by itself and he Russian government is encouraging it because it has a birth rate of 10.7 which is quite low.
Your article on mortality cuts off at 2014 and the rate has shot up to 16.7 again, and life expectancy lags behind Serbia and Bulgaria.
An all of this still ignores the fact that the Russian economy is utterly dependent on oil exports, accounting for 21% of GDP before the sanctions.
Moreover Russia ranks 137 out of 180 countries on the Corruption Perceptions Index by Transparency International.
Russia not only has a consistently low unemployment rate, they are one of the top countries for migrants workers. In fact, there’s a chronic labor shortage there which is actually a problem for the war effort.
And both life expectancy and the population rate have stabilized if not reversed due to well thought out efforts at the federal level (ignoring the current wartime situation).
I hate to break it to you but it’s no longer 1998 in Russia. Sources:
- https://tradingeconomics.com/russia/unemployment-rate
- https://citizenpath.com/countries-with-the-most-immigrants/
- https://youtu.be/oK5kLBlphsI (if you don’t speak Russian, turn on auto translate)
- https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10680-017-9451-3
- https://archive.ph/th2tK