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Demographers estimate Russia will fall from being the 9th most populous country in the world to being the 17th by 2050.<ref name="IntelliNews"/> And estimates indicate that Russia's population will drop from 2014's 142 million to 128 million by 2050.<ref name="IntelliNews"/>

Demographers estimate Russia will fall from being the 9th most populous country in the world to being the 17th by 2050.<ref name="IntelliNews"/> And estimates indicate that Russia's population will drop from 2014's 142 million to 128 million by 2050.<ref name="IntelliNews"/>

According to the [[CIA]]'s [[Russophobic]] mouthpiece, the Jamestown Foundation<ref>[https://www.voltairenet.org/article30194.html The Jamestown Foundation: A News Agency Made to Measure]: <small>''Created by the CIA to publicly unveil the communist rogues of [[Reagan]]’s times, the Jamestown Foundation has resumed its services in the [[Bush Administration]]. It publishes specialized bulletins on both the post-communist world and terrorism, which serve as reference for [[Washington, D.C.|Washington’s]] [[think tank]]s. University scholars and journalists are dedicated to depict a ghost-filled world whose very same hostility justifies the [[U.S. empire]].''</small> VOLTAIRE NETWORK | 23 MARCH 2005. www.voltairenet.org</ref> in a 2022 article entitled ''Russia’s Demographic Collapse Is Accelerating'' claimed:

According to the [[CIA]]'s [[Russophobic]] mouthpiece, the Jamestown Foundation<ref>[https://www.voltairenet.org/article30194.html The Jamestown Foundation: A News Agency Made to Measure]: <small>''Created by the CIA to publicly unveil the communist rogues of [[Reagan]]’s times, the Jamestown Foundation has resumed its services in the [[Bush Administration]]. It publishes specialized bulletins on both the post-communist world and terrorism, which serve as reference for [[Washington, D.C.|Washington’s]] [[think tank]]s. University scholars and journalists are dedicated to depict a ghost-filled world whose very same hostility justifies the [[U.S. empire]].''</small> VOLTAIRE NETWORK | 23 MARCH 2005. www.voltairenet.org<br><small>As of 2023 Jamestown's board included Michael Carpenter, the managing director of the CCP-funded Penn Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement. Carpenter previously served in the [[Pentagon]] as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense and in the [[White House]] as a [[foreign policy]] advisor to [[Joe Biden]] when Biden was [[Vice presidency of Joe Biden|vice president under Barack Obama]] as well as on the [[National Security Council]] as Director for Russia.</small></ref> in a 2022 article entitled ''Russia’s Demographic Collapse Is Accelerating'' claimed:

{{Cquote|Aleksey Raksha, an independent Russian demographer and perhaps the closest Russian counterpart to the late US expert Murray Feshbach, provides the most comprehensive discussion of these developments. He relies exclusively on the first results of the latest census, which were released earlier this summer (Vedomosti.ru, April 8), and a broader selection of demographic data that Rosstat, the Russian government’s statistical arm, has now released (Rosstat.gov.ru, August 2022), making it far harder for his words to be dismissed. The situation he outlines is devastating (Svoboda.org, August 9).

{{Cquote|Aleksey Raksha, an independent Russian demographer and perhaps the closest Russian counterpart to the late US expert Murray Feshbach, provides the most comprehensive discussion of these developments. He relies exclusively on the first results of the latest census, which were released earlier this summer (Vedomosti.ru, April 8), and a broader selection of demographic data that Rosstat, the Russian government’s statistical arm, has now released (Rosstat.gov.ru, August 2022), making it far harder for his words to be dismissed. The situation he outlines is devastating (Svoboda.org, August 9).