Russia's statistics agency, Rosstat, is publishing misleading data on the nation's demography, particularly the number of ethnic Russianss. The Jamestown Foundation says Moscow is hiding a demographic collapse of ethnic Russianss caused by high mortality, low birth rates and emigration, along with immigration by Central Asians and South Caucasians. For over a decade, Rosstat has not published data on Russians fertility and mortality compared to non-ethnic Russianss in the federation. Rosstat's data and independent, foreign data are significantly different. "Often, this difference was too large to be accounted for by anything other than complete and total dishonesty," says the Foundation.
Russia's statistics agency, Rosstat, is publishing misleading data on the nation's demography, particularly the number of ethnic Russians. The Jamestown Foundation says Moscow is hiding a demographic collapse of ethnic Russians caused by high mortality, low birth rates and emigration, along with immigration by Central Asians and South Caucasians. For over a decade, Rosstat has not published data on Russian fertility and mortality compared to non-ethnic Russians in the federation. Rosstat's data and independent, foreign data are significantly different. "Often, this difference was too large to be accounted for by anything other than complete and total dishonesty," says the Foundation.