[House Atreides]

This is a good trend. Now they just need to start having more marriages & babies...as do we Americans & other Europeans & Japanese.

[DIRTYSECRET]

80%? If you believe that you’ll believe anything.

[Mrs. Don-o]

I was gonna say: they probably just based their their statistics on legal liquor sales (ignoring a huge spike in illegal liquor sales) OR on retrospective self-reporting, the most dicey kind of data there is.

But yes, HA, what they really need is Mr. and Mrs. Ivanov to give each other a significant ogle, hop between the sheets and make like bunnies. Russia needs more Russians. No Russian kids=no Russian future, an easy lesson but one which many nations have sadly forgotten.