RUSSIA’S POPULATION DROPS BY 62,000 SINCE JANUARY.

TheYouth Institute Scientific Research Center’s Deputy Director VladimirRodionov told Interfax August 7 that that 95,000 Russian citizenswere born and 157,000 died since the beginning of 1995, providingfurther evidence of the continuing net decline of the Russianpopulation.

Russian Unemployment Reaches Record Mark.