Yeah, great unemployment is below 6% for the first time since 1992 in the last year. Youth unemployment is still nearly 17% which is comparable to France but st

Yeah, great unemployment is below 6% for the first time since 1992 in the last year. Youth unemployment is still nearly 17% which is comparable to France but still awful. The immigration numbers, and I'm sure you know this, represent a lot of ethnic Russians in neighboring former soviet satellites moving to Russia so I'm not sure it's particularly impressive as a stat by itself and he Russian government is encouraging it because it has a birth rate of 10.7 which is quite low. Your article on mortality cuts off at 2014 and the rate has shot up to 16.7 again, and life expectancy lags behind Serbia and Bulgaria. An all of this still ignores the fact that the Russian economy is utterly dependent on oil exports, accounting for 21% of GDP before the sanctions. Moreover Russia ranks 137 out of 180 countries on the Corruption Perceptions Index by Transparency International.