Interesting that you made that observation..
I posted it in this section because I was thinking about the political impacts and results of it and what government campaigns there are about it... (apparently there are some initiatives).

In Northern Europe it is Politics too; It's just about the only reason why some are prepared to accept so much non-European immigration. (which is pretty contriversial as you know....) It fills the demographic gap and the immigrant families continue to have lots of children for a couple of generations.

Perhaps this is being blown out of proportion in relation to Russia though, and it is not a bigger problem in Russia than in many other European countries. Maybe I got the wrong end of a stick.

And isn't it ironic that China which is a neoighbour of Russia's has the opposite problem?