To be honest, I'm not quite
sure, to either, as I have never looked at demographics' numbers...
At least, the
true ones.
As in, I'm pretty sure that
all 'official' numbers are throughly polished these days.
Really, slighty less than half of the country lives near-poverty, or in
actual poverty.
With some sprinkle of governmental propaganda, many,
many people with no higher education have nothing better to do than children.
And I'm not even joking
"Programms of population growth encouragment" have been running since 2000s as I'm aware of, and... well, the results have been a
mixed bag from my point of view.
"Second highest in suicide rate" I'd actually
believe in, though.
Life is
bad for some people, like
anywhere else... But very little
hope is seen through massive,
massive amounts of governmental propaganda, and if one dares to speak up... well, their life gets much worse, for however long it will last here.
Quite
a lot of scrutiny from people in power comes down, you see. And wit hit, less than friendly policemen...
And a recent sleuth of laws that make arresting anyone a non-problem, given but a
bit of want on policemen's part.
_*ranting intensifies*
Don't even get me
started on the fact that quite likely in about a 2-3 years' time Russia's whole Internet could be disconnected from the world via newly-installed Golden-Shield-like systems.
Or, well, the systems have been voted on by the government and sponsored out of people's pockets. How soon anything would be done is up to a question.
Or how they are quite likely to block Musk's Sattelite internet systems from reaching Russia, if not via "blowing up the sattelites" like some fucktard officials all but screamed, then via laws.
FFFFFFucking supremacist, asshole, tyranical Oligarchy running this country.