[JohnQ1]

Discounting muslim immigration, which Russia will surely regret, methinks Prime Minister Vladimir Putin lieth, as usual. Weren’t they losing about half a million a year? If muslims are coming in fast enough to overcome that, Russia has a huge problem looming.

[RolandOfGilead]

actually conditions have been improving dramatically in Russia in every possible way, including demographics, since Putin came to power. We can delude ourselves as much as we want to, but he is insanely popular there - and with a reason.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Natural_Population_Growth_Trends_in_Russia.png