INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
demographic crisis and ongoing troop losses in the war against Ukraine.For the first time, Rosstat last week released its monthly
dropping from 66 years in 2024 to 61 in mid-2025, while life expectancy for women held steady at 75.Since launching its full-scale invasion
of Ukraine in 2022, Russia has gradually restricted access to demographic data that experts have used to infer wartime casualties, including
lowest monthly figure in more than two centuries
Raksha estimates the first quarter of 2025 likely saw the fewest births since the early 1800s.On Saturday, federal lawmaker Nina Ostanina
reposted an appeal by a group of economists calling on the government to explain the missing data and urging Rosstat to resume publication
of nationwide birth and death statistics.
