The degradation of the Russian countryside continues, says Ukrainian intelligence. According to his report, at least 266 towns have been officially liquidated over the last year. Most of them are completely ghost villages. The leader in “disappearances” was the Kostroma Oblast, followed by the Novgorod Oblast. These two regions together accounted for approximately three-quarters of all liquidated settlements. In third place is the Perm Oblastwhere not only the “death” of villages occurs, but also deliberate displacement of those towns where few inhabitants remain.
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Disappearing villages in Russia. “Deep Crisis”
Villages whose inhabitants are being resettled are to be connected with larger towns. “In fact, this is not about development, but about the legal formalization of collapse,” writes the Ukrainian intelligence in a statement, emphasizing that the territories recovered from the displaced villages are transferred for “economic needs.”
The authors of the report mention the resettlement program announced by Russia, which is supposed to stimulate the development of the province, but in fact “only documents a deep demographic crisis, social inequalities and the hopelessness of life on the periphery.” The interview draws attention to the difficult living conditions in Russian villages, with no access to medicines, education or finding work. The authors of the report call the Russian resettlement program “an attempt to cosmetically hide the failure.”
The alarming data about Russian villages is the result of, among others, demographic problems in Russia. The number of births this year reached its lowest level in over 200 years. In the first quarter of the year it fell by 4%. year-on-year, to 288.8 thousand Last year, 1.2 million children were born in Russia – the lowest number since 1999. A few months ago, the Russian government even established a “demographic special group” to find a way to improve the fertility rate in the country.
