This is a very long but very interesting story about the decline in life expectancy in Russia.
It basically claims,,, that Russian are dying,, because there in nothing to live for?!
Perhaps this is what fuels Putin’s desire, to regain Russia’s lost glory?!
I had previously mentioned about reading an article in the local paper about optimism and how in Eastern Europe, it kept dropping until you died unlike other parts of the world where the lowest point in optimism was in middle age, but went back up in old age.