re: #168 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Things are about to get a lot worse: aging population + underdeveloped health-care system.
I don’t know of the Russian health care system is “underdeveloped” but they certainly don’t have an aging population, at 17.6 % (0-14), 68.2 % (15-65) 14.2 % (>65) their population is not vastly different from the US at 18.9 %, 65.7 %, 15.4 %.
To have an aging population you need a working health system.