> Russia’s rate of demographic drag is in line with regional peers in Eastern and Central Europe — Germany, Romania, Hungary or Finland experience broadly similar rates of natural population decline.
Russia seems to be using the same "missing in action" trick as the USA used in Vietnam. "They're not dead, we just misplaced a few tens of thousands of soldiers!"
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