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> Russia has a very low birth rate for native Russians

That was true 20 years ago but no longer true today. Russia is in a period of relative baby boom and fertility rate is now higher than in most European countries (except France, Sweden and Ireland I believe). It's already quite difficult to put kids in school!

Of course the effect is bound to peter out in a coming decade.

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Does this count for native Russians and Europeans?

Europe for the most part has a negative native birth rate, the positive birth rates come from immigrants.

With all the huge number of immigrants there are, they're still at around 20% of population in most countries and thus unable to seriously "move the needle" on fertility rate.

> That was true 20 years ago but no longer true today.

It is still true for _native_ Russians, not Russian-based immigrants from neighbouring states.

No it is not. You're hugely overrepresenting "immigrants from neighbouring states" contributions in a country with 145 mln citizens, of which 83% are "native Russians"

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