[DM] "On Russia's brief population increase"

[rfmcdonald]

I've a post up at Demography Matters that takes a look at the recent minor increase in the Russian population, a decided break from the post-Soviet trends. It's only going to be a brief trend, produced by the late Soviet spike in Russian fertility; the post-Soviet collapse in Russian fertility ensures that there won't be enough women to give birth to enough children to counter death rates, even with plausible immigration levels.