Russian population dwindles since 2002

Russia’s population has dwindled by 2.2 million people since 2002 to 142,905,200 people, the Rossiiskaya Gazeta government daily reported on Monday citing preliminary results of last year’s nationwide census. The all-Russia census, the second since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, was held between October 14 and 25, 2010. The preliminary data, made […]