The results of implementation of the Putin-Medvedev projects require no comments. Russia is ahead of the entire planet in the decrease of the population, and 134th in the population’s life expectancy.All you have to do is google these keywords: “Russia’s place in the world” (which was done by our editors in the Russian language) and see what comes up… For the most part the results are sad, namely:Â
1st place in the world in absolute value of population’s decrease
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1st place in the world in deaths from cardiovascular diseases
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1st place in the world in sales of hard liquor
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1st place in the world in consumption of alcohol and alcohol-based beverages
1st place in the world in the number of smoking children
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1st place in the world in the number of airplane crashes
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1st place in the world in the increase of tobacco smoking
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1st place in the world in the growth rate of the number of HIV-infected persons
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1st place in the world in the physical volume of export of diamonds
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1st place in the world in the volume of trading humans
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1st place in the world in the number of automobile accidents
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1st place in the world in the number of billionaires prosecuted by law enforcement
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1st place in the world in the import of Chinese automobiles in the first half of 2007
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2d place in the world in the number of abortions
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2d place in the world in the number of submarines
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2d place in the world in the number of convicts per 1,000
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2d place in the world in exporting weapons
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2d place in the world in distribution of fake medicines
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2d place in the world in the level of bureaucracy
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2d place in the world in the number of journalists killed over the past ten years
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2d place in the world in the suicide rate, after Lithuania
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2d place in the world among manufacturers of pirated CDs
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2d place in the world in the list of countries possessing the largest number of firearms
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2d place in the world in the number of children adopted in the US
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2d place in the world in the number of people seeking asylum in industrially developed Western countries, Serbia being the first on the list
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3d place in the world in the number of totalitarian sects
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3d place in the world in the inflow of migrants
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3d place in the world in distribution of child pornography
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3d place in the world in car thefts
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3d place in the world in the number of mobile phone subscribers
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3d place in the world in the number of refugees
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3d place in the world in the list of the most smoking countries
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4th place in the world in the reserves of zirconium
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4th place in the world in the number of books published
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4th place in the world in consumption of low-alcohol beverages
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5th place in the world in genetic health
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6th place in the world in use of decorative and medical cosmetics
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8th place in the world in the number of foreign students
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14th place in the world in the volume of gold in the federal reserve
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15th place in the world in the number of Internet users
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16th place in the world in the gross domestic product
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21st place in the world in the number of inventions patented
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27th place in the world in the quality of education
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32d place in the world in the ecological rating of the countries
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43d place in the world in the economy’s competitiveness
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51st place in the world among the most corrupted countries
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57th place in the world in quality of living
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62d place in the world in the level of technological developments: between Costa Rica and Pakistan
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67th place in the world in standard of living
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70th place in the world in using advanced information and communication technologies
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97th place in the world in profits per capita
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115th place in the world in the level of economic freedom
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127th place in the world in the population’s health indexes
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134th place in the world in life expectancy
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147th place in the world (out of 168) in the level of freedom of the press
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159th place in the world in the level of political rights and freedoms
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175th place in the world in the level of physical safety of citizens
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182d place in the world in the overall death-rate from the list of 207 countries
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Source: Trezvaya Rossia
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Kavkaz Center