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RFE/RL Russian Federation Report
Vol. 2, No. 39, 25 October 2000
A Survey of Developments in the Regions Outside Moscow
Prepared by the Staff of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
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FEDERAL GOVERNMENT DOES NOT SEE CHINESE SOLUTION TO POPULATION
DECLINE. During an impromptu visit to Khabarovsk, Deputy Prime
Minister Valentina Matvienko told reporters that according to current
data, the number of Chinese immigrants to the Far Eastern part of
Russia has risen 50-fold since 1990, ITAR-TASS reported. Matvienko
described this as a "disturbing tendency" and noted that to normalize
the situation the federal government needs to amend existing
legislation. Meanwhile, in Moscow the same day, Olga Samarina, the
head of the Labor Ministry's demography department, told reporters
that Russia is experiencing a depopulation and that only three
regions, the Republics of Ingushetia and Daghestan and Tyumen Oblast,
are experiencing a positive population growth; however, in the first
two cases, much of the population growth results from refugees, so
they "cannot be regarded as favorable from the migration point of
view." According to Samarina, all of Russia's regions can be divided
into four demographic categories. The first consists of 13 regions,
mostly in central Russia, where the death rate is higher than the
birth rate and people are moving away to other areas. The second is
mostly northern regions of Russia, where a large outflow of residents
is not compensated by the birth rate. Moscow and about 50 regions of
middle Russia and the central Black Earth zone constitute the third
category, where an influx of the population cannot compensate for the
death rate. Daghestan, Ingushetia, and Tyumen Oblast make up the
fourth category. JAC
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RYAZAN
LOCAL NEWSPAPER LAUNCHES ATTACK ON JEWISH COMMUNITY LEADER. The head
of the Ryazan Jewish community, Leonid Reznikov, has come under attack
in the local press for allegedly giving a distorted picture of the 17
September incident in which a group of youths stormed a Jewish Sunday
school in the oblast. According to a 20 October press release by the
Union of Councils for Soviet Jews, "Vechernyaya Ryazan" recently
published an article in which Reznikov is accused of deliberately
lying about the incident in order to convince local residents that
anti-Semitism is a problem in the oblast and thus damage the prospects
of Ryazan Mayor Valerii Ryumin in the upcoming gubernatorial ballot.
"Vechernyaya Ryazan" is supporting the candidacy of Ryumin, a
well-known anti-Semite. JC
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