Russians. What is a dying people heading for? The Russian population of the country is rapidly dying out Russians are dying out at a breakneck pace

The demographic situation in Russia in 2016 demonstrates previous trends:

The Russian population of the country is rapidly dying out;

Natural population decline is typical for most regions of Russia;

Russia is compensating for the extinction of its own population through migration growth.

As a result of natural causes (fertility and mortality), the country's population decreased by 30 thousand people in the first six months, but due to the fact that 140 thousand migrants arrived in the country during this six months, Rosstat reported a population growth of 109.7 thousand people;

The systematic deterioration of the economic situation since 2013 was also reflected in the demographic component - the birth rate first slowed down, and in 2015 there was a drop in comparison with the previous year (Fig. 1). The readiness to have children in the context of the deteriorating economic situation in Russia is decreasing.

Rice. 1. Birth rate in Russia (according to Rosstat)

The long-awaited natural growth, which began in the country in 2013, has only one explanation - the population of the national outskirts began to grow so rapidly that its growth began to cover the natural decline of Russians. For example, in 2015, in the North Caucasus Federal District alone, the increase exceeded the Russian annual figure by 2.6 times (Fig. 2).

Rice. 2. Natural increase/decrease by federal districts (according to Rosstat)

At the same time, regions with a high concentration of Russian population continue to demonstrate trends in natural population decline at record rates.

In the first half of 2016, natural population growth was recorded in only 35 constituent entities of the Russian Federation, while the remaining 50 continue to die out. Let's see, as an example, how the number of regions has changed by 2015 since 2000 (Fig. 3).

Rice. 3. Change in population by 2015 since 2000 (according to Rosstat)

Only 24 entities have not reduced their numbers - these are the Caucasian republics and other national regions, capital cities and oil and gas entities. The population grew by more than 10% in only 9 regions, and decreased by more than 10% in 37. Chechnya and the Magadan region became the absolute leaders. The Chechen Republic increased its population by 91%, and Magadan lost almost 40% of its inhabitants.

The vector of international migration has changed in recent years. Every year the population of Russia increases due to migration growth by 230–300 thousand people, 96% of whom come from the CIS countries. If previously the main migration flow came from the republics of Central Asia, then with the tightening of legislation and the devaluation of the ruble, the number of migrants remaining in the country has decreased, while since the beginning of the conflict in Ukraine, the number of Ukrainian citizens who come to Russia both for the purpose of earning money and in the hope of finding shelter (Fig. 4). However, the rigidity of Russian legislation and numerous obstacles for those entering from Ukraine turn this hope into bitter disappointment. But in any case, for them, the bad Russian peace is much better than war.

Rice. 4. Migration growth (according to Rosstat)

Since 2013, there has been a trend towards a reduction in marriages among the population, which is also largely due to the worsening economic situation. In the first half of 2016, the number of marriages decreased by 12% compared to the previous similar period, while the number of divorces increased by 2%.

The declared successes of the Russian state demographic policy in fact turn out to be a complete failure: instead of stimulating the birth rate, the authorities report population growth due to migrants, many of whom give rise to the problem of cultural assimilation and influence crime in the country. Reduction of the largest, state-forming and culture-forming Russian ethnic group is not on the state’s problematic agenda; moreover, the Russian issue, under the pretext of nationalism and fascism, has been politicized and is closed to public discussion. The state is aloof from the issues of demographic decline of the Orthodox population, which, apparently, has lost both the spiritual bonds of family values ​​and the economic basis for starting a family. The Kremlin prefers not to notice all this, relying on illusory hopes of filling Russia at the expense of the inhabitants of neighboring states.

According to the results of the 2002 census, in the historically Russian regions of the Russian Federation of the Central, Northwestern and Volga federal districts, 21 regions were recorded in which the Russian share was more than 90% of the population: Vologda (96.6%), Tambov (96.5%), Bryansk (96.3%), Lipetsk and Kursk (95.8 each), Oryol (95.3%), Tula (95.2%), Yaroslavl (95.1%), Nizhny Novgorod (95%), Vladimir (94.75%), Ryazan (94.5%), Pskov (94.3%), Arkhangelsk (94.2%), Voronezh (94.1%), Novgorod (93.9%), Ivanovo (93 .7%), Kaluga (93.5%), my native Smolensk (93.4%), Belgorod (92.9%), Tver (92.5%), Moscow (91%), in the Leningrad region there is a Russian share made up 89.6% of the population.

For now, I will leave without comment the factor of multimillion-dollar external migration, the main part of which Rosstat chronicles stubbornly do not show.

In its yearbooks, Rosstat reports indicators of fertility, mortality, natural increase / natural decline (extinction) in each region of the Russian Federation. All of the listed historically Russian regions are dying out! To calculate the guideline figure for the extinction of the Russian people, the author uses an obvious method: among the indicated regions, three are taken with maximum and three with minimum indicators of natural decline-extinction (excess of mortality over

birth rate per 1000 population), the average extinction rate is calculated, by which the current number of the Russian people is multiplied. The resulting result is the benchmark for the extinction rate of the Russian people for a specific year.

According to the census of January 12, 1989, the number of Russian people in the RSFSR was 119.9 million. In 1989–1990 and in the first half of 1991, the rapidly fading natural growth of the Russian people increased its number in the RSFSR to 120.5 million. In mid-1991 Russian mortality exceeded Russian birth rate, and the Russian people began to die out. According to the 2002 census, there were 115.9 million Russians in the Russian Federation, and according to the 2010 census – 111 million.

Rosstat showed the migration increase for 1989–2010 at 7 million. Let us assume that this is a guideline figure for the migration increase of the Russian people for this period. After all, during these years Russians mostly entered Russia rather than left. Based on these figures, we roughly determine the current number of Russian people for a specific year. Let's consider calculations for several years.

1995 The maximum extinction rates this year were shown by: Pskov region (minus 13.1 per 1000 population), Tver region (minus 12.3) and Tula region (minus 12.1); minimal: Belgorod (minus 5.4), Bryansk (minus 6.7) and Oryol (minus 7.4). The average extinction rate for regions where the Russian share is more than 90% of the population was in 1995 - minus 9.5 per 1000 population. By the way, this indicator in 1995 for the entire Russian Federation was minus 5.7 per 1000.

Let us assume that the number of the Russian people in 1995 was 119 million. Hence, the guideline figure for the extinction of the Russian people that year turns out to be minus 1,130,000. The overall extinction rate for the Russian Federation was minus 840 thousand. It turns out that for all other peoples of Russia, and above all Among Muslims historically indigenous to Russia and all newcomers from external migration, a natural increase was noted (the excess of birth rates over deaths), which in 1995 amounted to approximately plus 290 thousand.

year 2000. The maximum extinction rates this year were shown by: Pskov region (minus 14.9 per 1000 population), Tula region (minus 14.2) and Tver region (minus 14.1); minimal: Vologda (minus 7.2), Belgorod (minus 7.5) and Lipetsk (minus 8.7). The average extinction rate for regions where the Russian share is more than 90% of the population was in 2000 - minus 11.1 per 1000 population. By the way, this figure for 2000 for the entire Russian Federation was minus 6.6 per 1000.

Let’s assume that the number of Russian people in 2000 was 117 million. Hence, the target figure for the extinction of the Russian people that year turns out to be minus 1,300,000. The overall extinction rate for the Russian Federation was minus 958.5 thousand. It turns out that for all other peoples of Russia, and First of all, among Muslims historically indigenous to Russia and all newcomers from external migration, a natural increase was noted, which amounted to approximately plus 340 thousand in 2000.

2005 year. The maximum extinction rates this year were shown by: Pskov region (minus 15.7 per 1000 population), Tula region (minus 14.2) and Tver region (minus 13.7); minimal: Belgorod (minus 7.1), Vologda (minus 8.3) and Lipetsk (minus 8.6). The average extinction rate for regions where the Russian share is more than 90% of the population was in 2005 minus 11.25 per 1000 population. By the way, this figure for 2005 for the entire Russian Federation was minus 5.9 per 1000.

Let’s assume that the number of Russian people in 2005 was 114 million. Hence, the target figure for the extinction of the Russian people that year turns out to be minus 1,285,000. The overall extinction rate for the Russian Federation was minus 846.5 thousand. It turns out that for all other peoples of Russia, and First of all, among Muslims historically indigenous to Russia and all newcomers from external migration, a natural increase was noted, which amounted to approximately plus 440 thousand in 2005.

2010 The maximum extinction rates this year were shown by: Pskov region (minus 10.5 per 1000 population), Tula region (minus 9.3) and Tver region (minus 9.0); minimal: Belgorod (minus 3.8), Vologda (minus 3.85) and Lipetsk (minus 5.3). The average extinction rate for regions where the Russian share is more than 90% of the population was in 2010 minus 7.0 per 1000 population. Please note that this figure for 2010 for the entire Russian Federation was only minus 1.7 per 1000.

The 2010 census showed that the number of Russian people in 2010 was 111 million. Hence, the benchmark figure for the extinction of the Russian people that year turns out to be minus 770,000. The overall extinction rate for the Russian Federation was minus 240 thousand. It turns out that for all other peoples of Russia, and First of all, among Muslims historically indigenous to Russia and all newcomers from external migration, a natural increase was noted, which amounted to approximately plus 530 thousand in 2010. Pay special attention to how steadily this figure is growing!

As a result of all the calculations, it turns out that between 1992 and 2011, approximately 22.5 million Russians died out in Russia! Didn't die - this is not an indicator of mortality - and didn't die, but died out! And not the average “dear Russians”, whom no science knows, but Russians!

At the same time, I would like to hope that in Russia as a whole, the demography of the Russian people is still better than its average in historically Russian regions, in which the Russian share is more than 90% of the population. But even in this case, there is every reason to assert that the extinction figure of the Russian people for 1992–2011 has already passed the 20 million mark! That is, the Russian mortality rate for 1992–2011 exceeded the Russian birth rate by at least (!) by 20 million! The minimum, because this is calculated from the official reports of Rosstat, if they tell us the truth.

Just wondering: why V.V. Putin came to talk about the national issue in the North Caucasus Federal District, where everything is more than in order with demographics, and not in the Pskov, Tver or Tula regions, where the Russian people are dying out at the rate of 1–1.5% per year?! I repeat: it doesn’t die, but it dies out!

Let's sum it up. For 1992–2011 in present-day Russia, the overall indicator of natural decline-extinction (the excess of mortality over the birth rate) was, according to Rosstat, minus 13.5 million. At the same time, the Russian people died out by at least minus 20 million. Consequently, among all other peoples Russia, and above all the Muslims historically native to Russia (God bless them!) and all newcomers from external migration, have recorded a natural increase of no less than plus 6.5 million.

They will immediately point out to me that, based on my calculations, there should have been hardly more than 100 million Russians at the time of the 2010 census! However, the 2010 census showed that the number of Russian people is 111 million. It would have turned out that way if not for two “saving” processes!

The first “saving” process was the massive return of Russians to the Russian Federation from the former Soviet republics. Rosstat showed that the migration increase for 1989–2010 amounted to 7 million. Since the actual border control data on the total entry into Russia and the total exit from it are still closed, let us assume that the migration increase of the Russian people is no more than 7 million.

The second “saving” process was the change in the definition of their own nationality among a noticeable part of respondents in the 2002 and 2010 censuses. Thus, according to the 1989 census, 4.3 million Ukrainians were recorded in the RSFSR; according to the 2002 census there are already 2.9 million in the Russian Federation, and according to the 2010 census – 1.9 million! 2.4 million less than in 1989! And this despite the fact that the Russian Federation and Ukraine have a positive migration balance.

There were 1.2 million Belarusians in 1989, 808 thousand in 2002, and 521.5 thousand in 2010, 680 thousand less than in 1989!

There were 1,774 thousand Chuvash people in 1989, 1,637 thousand in 2002, and 1,436 thousand in 2010, 340 thousand less than in 1989

There were 715 thousand Udmurts in 1989, 637 thousand in 2002, and 553 thousand in 2010, 160 thousand less than in 1989! Etc. Plus foreign migrants, some of whom also identified themselves as Russians during the census.

In my opinion, such a process can be estimated at a figure of up to 5 million. That is, the Russian people “arrived” by 5 million as a result of this process, and all other peoples “departed.” Anyone can be convinced that if not for these two “saving” processes, there would be no more than 100 million Russians in the Russian Federation today.

External migration

Ten years ago, six months before the 2002 census, Assistant to the President of the Russian Federation V.P. Ivanov published an interview in AiF (No. 15. 2002) with an incredible level of substantive frankness. It can be stated that this interview, given six months before the 2002 census, significantly refuted (!) the results of not only this, the closest census at that time, but also the results of the next one - the 2010 census! V. Ivanov warned that these are “estimated data from law enforcement agencies, which, by the way, have never been published before.”

Through border control posts, 14.5 million people arrived in Russia from the CIS countries alone last year (2001), and 11.5 million left the country, the remainder being 3 million. The picture was similar in 1999 and 2000.

Let's compare. V. Ivanov reported that during these three years alone (1999–2001) and only from the CIS countries, the migration increase amounted to plus 9 million! However, official Rosstat reports on the migration exchange between the Russian Federation and the CIS countries for 1999–2001 still report something completely different.

1999: arrivals – 362,708, departures – 127,807, “remainder” – 234,901.

2000: arrivals – 346,774, departures – 83,312, “remainder” – 263,462.

2001: arrivals - 183,650, departures - 61,570, "remainder" - 122,080.

Hence, according to Rosstat, the migration increase from the CIS countries for 1999–2001 amounted to only plus 620,443. Please note: Rosstat’s version differs from the figures from the interview with V.P. Ivanov for the 15th time!

If we take the figure of 3 million (from V. Ivanov) as a stable maximum, then for 1992–2001 the positive balance of migration exchange between the Russian Federation and the CIS countries will be plus 30 million. If in the remaining years of this period we assume a positive migration balance of at least 1 million, then it amounted to plus 16 million. Thus, we can assume that the average guideline of migration growth for 1992–2001 from the CIS countries alone amounted to plus 23 million.

According to law enforcement agencies, about 600,000 Azerbaijani citizens live in Moscow, of which only 60,000 are officially registered, and only 13 people are registered for tax purposes. Six months later, the 2002 census counted, but not in Moscow, but in the Russian Federation as a whole, 621,840 Azerbaijanis, and the 2010 census counted even less - 603,070.

There are more than 100,000 Chinese citizens in the capital, but only 216 people are registered with the tax authorities. The 2002 census found only 34,577 Chinese within the Russian Federation; and the 2010 census – 28,943.

The question is inevitable: how many Chinese citizens are within Russia today? Something is known about this. Oleg Slobodchikov, candidate of political sciences, demographer, reports the following: “There are different estimates of the number of visiting Chinese on Russian territory: from 2–2.5 million to 5–10 million people” (“AiF” No. 46. 2005). These were estimates back in 2005. A year later, it was supplemented by Doctor of Economics Krasnikov, without, however, indicating the source: “2 million Chinese settle in Russia every year” (06/28/2006. “Our version”. TVC).

But Rosstat stubbornly does not record anything similar. Meanwhile, the number of Chinese citizens within the Russian Federation can already be estimated at 10 million; and it turns out that the Tatars are no longer the second largest people in Russia, but only the third! The second ones are the Chinese! It’s even interesting how the ardent Tatar public (and not only the Tatar) will react to this when it realizes what is happening.

According to the 2002 census, only 6.5 million citizens of the Russian Federation lived in the Far Eastern Federal District, and according to the 2010 census - 6.3 million. In addition to the Chinese, of whom there are apparently already 10 million in the country, how many Vietnamese and Koreans do we have? ? The question is legitimate: are we conceding, surrendering the Far East? How many migrants from the Arab world and Africa are there in the Russian Federation?

And also from an interview with V.P. Ivanova: “The total number of foreigners in Russia today exceeds 10 million. About half of them are illegal immigrants. If legislative measures are not taken, the number of illegal immigrants could rise to 19 million by 2010.” The 2002 census took into account 239 thousand people who were temporarily (less than 1 year, according to Rosstat) on the territory of the Russian Federation; and the 2010 census recorded 489 thousand of them.

On February 21, 2011, I received the sixth letter from the FMS dated 02/08/2011 No. MS-3/2383 to No. SNI-4/4 dated 01/25/2011, which was signed by the head of the Organizational and Analytical Department, Mrs. E.A. Radochina. The most incredible thing is in the “appendix” to the sixth letter of the FMS - these are border control data for 2005–2010! I would like to draw your attention to the fact that this information is not available on the FSB website (www.fsb.ru), nor on the FMS website (www.fms.gov.ru), nor on the Rosstat website www.gks.ru!

On March 1, 2011, I received the sixth letter from Rosstat dated February 18, 2011 No. 8-0-20/146 on SNI-4/5 dated January 25, 2011, which, as always, was signed by the head of the Department of Population and Health Statistics, Ms. I.A. Zbarskaya. I will quote his fundamentally important fragment: “The time criterion for classifying a population as permanent is 12 months” (“Recommendations of the Conference of European Statisticians on the Conduct of Population and Housing Censuses 2010”, United Nations Economic Commission for Europe, New York, Geneva, 2006).

Citizens of the Russian Federation, foreign citizens and stateless persons registered with the territorial bodies of the Federal Migration Service at the place of residence or at the place of stay for a period of 1 year or more (arrived), as well as those deregistered at the place of residence due to leaving for a permanent place, are subject to statistical observation. residence outside the Russian Federation (departed). Rosstat’s position on the issue of accounting for long-term migration, set out in previous responses (letters dated November 21, 2004 No. 8-0-20/694; dated November 10, 2006 No. 8-0-20/601; dated November 13, 2009

No. 8-0-20/916), has not changed."

I will add that letters from Rosstat dated March 30, 2007 are not mentioned

No. 8-0-20/164 and dated May 28, 2010 No. 8-0-20/507. There were five letters in total, this is the sixth.

Let us fix the “position of Rosstat”: if a migrant “registered with the territorial bodies of the Federal Migration Service at his place of residence,” but lived there for less than 1 year, or did not register at all, then he “is not subject to statistical observation”! That is, it’s as if it doesn’t exist in Russia?! How nice!

And please also note: I am asking about border control data, and Rosstat provides data on registered (!) long-term migration. I ask about one thing, and Rosstat answers something completely different! But after the sixth letter from the FMS, this method of Rosstat looks simply stupid. Now we will study the parameters of unregistered (!) long-term migration for 2005–2010.

There is a danger of overloading the reader’s attention with secondary figures from the “appendix” to the sixth letter of the FMS. Therefore, I quote the fundamental provisions. At the same time, I immediately show what the official website of Rosstat www.gks.ru reports about the same thing.

"2005 year. The total number of completed migration card forms received from the border authorities of the FSB of Russia is 25,506,720; including entry units – 14,226,286, exit units – 11,280,434.” From these FSB data it follows that the migration increase (the excess of entry into Russia over exit from it) in 2005 amounted to 2,945,852 (14,226,286 minus 11,280,434). But Rosstat told us that only 107,432 (177,230 moved in, 69,798 left). Hence, the hidden (not reflected in Rosstat reports) part of the migration increase amounted to 2,838,418 (2,945,852 minus 107,432). As they say in Odessa, feel two big differences!

“2006. The total number of completed migration card forms received from the border authorities of the FSB of Russia is 27,848,010; including entry units – 15,184,268, exit units – 12,663,842.” According to the FSB, the increase in migration in 2006 was 2,520,426, and according to Rosstat - 132,319 (186,380 entered, 54,062 left). The hidden part of the migration increase is 2,388,107.

“2007. The total number of completed migration card forms received from the border authorities of the FSB of Russia is 30,710,199; including entry units – 16,416,852, exit units – 14,293,347.” According to the FSB, the increase in migration in 2007 was 2,123,505, and according to Rosstat - 239,943 (entered - 286,056, left - 47,013). The hidden part of the migration increase is 1,883,562.

“2008. The total number of completed migration card forms received from the border authorities of the FSB of Russia is 33,684,200; including: entry units – 18,011,718, exit units – 15,672,482.” According to the FSB, the migration increase in 2008 was 2,339,236, and according to Rosstat - 242,106 (entered - 281,614, left - 39,508). The hidden part of the migration increase is 2,097,130.

"year 2009. The total number of completed migration card forms received from the border authorities of the FSB of Russia is 36,241,217; including entry units – 18,762,080, exit units – 17,479,137.” According to the FSB, the increase in migration in 2009 was 1,282,943, and according to Rosstat - 247,449 (entered - 279,907, left - 32,458). The hidden part of the migration increase is 1,035,494.

“2010. The total number of completed migration card forms received from the border authorities of the FSB of Russia is 39,501,010; including entry units – 20,588,911, exit units – 18,912,099.” According to the FSB, the migration increase in 2010 was 1,676,812, and according to Rosstat - 158,079 (191,656 entered, 33,577 left). The hidden part of the migration increase is 1,518,733.

Let's sum it up. The PS of the FSB of Russia recorded that the actual (!) migration increase for 2005–2010 is 12,888,774. And according to Rosstat, the long-term migration increase registered (!) by the territorial bodies of the FMS is 1,127,328. Thus, unregistered, and therefore hidden , part of the migration increase for 2005–2010 (not reflected in the Rosstat chronicles) amounted to 11,761,446. Did you catch the “subtlety”?!

In 2005–2010, Rosstat, with its chronicles, “legalized” less than 10% of the real migration growth of this period!

Let's compare. According to Rosstat, the migration increase for 1989–2010 amounted to 7 million, and the PS of the FSB of Russia recorded that for 2005–2010 alone, the actual migration increase amounted to 12,888,774. In my opinion, the interview with V.P. Ivanov in “AiF” (No. 15. 2002) and the “appendix” to the sixth letter of the FMS unconditionally refute (!) the results of the 2002 and 2010 censuses from Rosstat!

Finally, to illustrate what is happening, consider an absurd situation. Let’s imagine that for the years 2005–2010, Mrs. I.A. Zbarskaya (head of the Department of Population and Health Statistics of Rosstat) in her own apartment or in her own cottage recorded a migration increase of 13 external migrants! Naturally, she contacts all authorities and asks to restore order. And in response she hears that only 1 (one) migrant is “registered with the territorial body of the Federal Migration Service and has been living for more than 1 year” at her address! The rest are “not subject to statistical observation”!

Missed chapter of “Strategy 2020”

Until now, two key indicators remain outside the scope of discussion of the demographic situation in the Russian Federation, and now the national issue. For 1992–2011, the extinction of the Russian people (from Rosstat reports) amounted to no less than minus 20 million. And the migration increase, as we saw above, in reality averages no less than plus 2 million per year, and for 23 years (1989 –2011) guaranteed to exceed 40 million. And since the migration increase according to Rosstat for 1989–2010 was only plus 7 million (5.5 million for 1989 and 1.5 million for 2003–2010), then its the hidden part today is no less than plus 35 million!

Due to this default, these discussions simply cannot reach the level of reducing these two processes into one! Meanwhile, the presentation of these two processes in continuity makes a strong impression, especially if we include in the calculations the hidden part of the migration increase! Since the author does not yet have complete border control data for 1992–2011, what follows is calculated at the order of numbers level.

Every year of the period 1992–2011, Russia is in the red by 1 million Russians dying out (based on Rosstat data) and in the plus by 2 million in migration growth (based on interviews with senior officials of the Russian Federation and border control data for 2005–2010). The migration growth of the Russian people was approximately balanced by the natural growth of all other peoples of the Russian Federation, both historically indigenous to Russia and newcomers from external migration.

It follows that every year of the period 1992–2011 the excess of the Russian people over the number of all other peoples of the Russian Federation decreased by 3 million! That is, this excess should have been reduced by 60 million over the years. It should have been, but let me remind you that during the 2002 and 2010 censuses, up to 5 million respondents revised their nationality and called themselves Russian. These 5 million Russians “arrived”, and all other peoples “departed”.

And therefore, the excess of the number of the Russian people over the number of all other peoples of the Russian Federation decreased over twenty years (1992–2011) not by 60 million, but “only” by 50 million! Just everything!

According to the census of January 12, 1989, the number of Russian people in the RSFSR was 119.9 million, and the number of all other peoples was 27.1 million. That is, the Russian people outnumbered the other peoples of the RSFSR by 92.8 million.

I repeat once again: as soon as the hidden part of the migration increase for 1989–2010 is introduced into the calculations - no less than 35 million, the demographic statistics in the Russian Federation immediately undergoes a dramatic revision!

Currently, the permanent population of the Russian Federation is not 143 million, as Rosstat assures, but approximately 180 million: Russians - 110 million (60%), all other peoples - 70 million (40%). The excess of the Russian people over the number of all other peoples today is no more than 40 million! By the way, there is a reason to correlate the 180 million permanent population of the Russian Federation with the mortality rate shown by Rosstat in recent years at 2 million per year.

And finally, most importantly: what's next? What forecasts are calculated based on the already known dynamics of the extinction of the Russian people and their replacement by external migration? There is nothing comforting: the unified process of the extinction of the Russian people and their replacement by external migration is moving into the next stage.

Something worth remembering here. In 1987 in the RSFSR was born

2–2.1 million Russian children (with a total birth rate of 2.5 million). And in 1993, only 1 million Russian children were born in the Russian Federation (with a total birth rate of less than 1.4 million). And after 1993, 1 million (plus or minus 100,000) Russian children are born in the Russian Federation per year.

In 2011, the first “Novorossiyansk” Russian generation, born in 1993, began to give birth to their children. If the “two to one” ratio in neighboring generations of the Russian people remains (and there are no other prerequisites yet), then in 2015–2020 the second “Novorossian” Russian generation will take shape, which will number only 500,000 (plus or minus 100,000 ) in year.

And in the current decade (2010–2020), a significant transition will occur: the Russian people will begin to have fewer children than all other peoples of Russia! Let me remind you that just recently, in 1987, the Russian people had four times more children than all other nations.

Since 1994, Russian mortality has regularly reached

marks of 2 million per year; total mortality, according to Rosstat, up to 2.37 million in 2003. However, given that in the 50s of the 20th century more than 2.5 million children were born per year in the RSFSR, taking into account current life expectancy, and especially taking into account migration growth, there is every reason to expect that in 2015–2020 the total mortality in Russia will be will reach 3 million per year. Russian mortality will reach the level of 2.5 million per year.

Since 1993, the Russian people have been dying out at the rate of 1 million per year. But, as we see, there are good reasons to expect that in 2015–2020 the extinction of the Russian people will reach 2 million per year!

Let’s assume that migration growth will remain at the level of plus 2 million per year. At the same time, the migration growth of the Russian people will continue to decline and may turn into a migration decline. It is obvious that the natural growth of all other peoples of Russia, indigenous and newcomers, will continue to grow. Consequently, there is every reason to expect that the excess of the Russian people over the number of all other peoples of the Russian Federation during this period (2015–2020) will begin to decline by 4 million per year!

At the same time, it can be assumed that with the easing of the visa regime with the European Union, the United States and other countries, a mass exodus from the Russian Federation will begin, and above all of Russian youth - cultured, educated, law-abiding, with European face control! Today, sociological surveys show that over the past twenty years (1992–2011) the share of those who would like to leave the Russian Federation has increased from 5% to 21%; and this is at least 30 million people!

Let's sum it up. By 2020, the Russian people will die out by at least minus 10 million more; all other peoples of Russia will increase their numbers by natural increase by another plus 7–8 million; The migration increase of external migrants coming to Russia will be another plus 20 million, minus the quite possible departure of several million Russians from Russia. Have you forgotten anything?

These calculations show that by 2020 the current excess of 40 million in the number of Russian people over the number of all other peoples of the Russian Federation will evaporate! And around 2020, the share of the Russian people in the total population of the Russian Federation will fall below 50%. In my opinion, this is an objective condition for the beginning of the final collapse of Russia according to the Yugoslav scenario. With our specifics, of course, but it won’t seem enough to anyone.

This does not mean that the collapse of Russia will begin exactly in 2020 or sometime later. The collapse may begin before 2020! We all see that the course of history is accelerating dizzyingly and that weak states are being crushed and swept away mercilessly! I hope no one will argue that over the past twenty years (1992–2011) Russia has become stronger by 20 million extinct Russians?! Or that the hidden migration increase of 35 million external migrants “raised Russia from its knees”?!

V.V. wrote his first election article. Putin called it “Russia is concentrating.” But the achieved dynamics of the extinction of the Russian people and their replacement by external migration shows exactly the opposite: Russia is rapidly dispersing! Is it really possible that during the 12 years of his stay in the highest posts of the Russian Federation, V.V. Putin still doesn’t understand this?!

And the Moscow and St. Petersburg wise men, those who first composed “Concept 2020”, then “Strategy 2020”, in which they saw the stages of “further development” of the “new democratic Great Russia” until 2020, those who, after the release of the next election article V.V. Putin was tweeted for hours on television about nothing - they didn’t understand that either?! What can I say to this: the poor people have taken the ideas of “market democracy” and “rootless globalism” to the extreme!

And there is something to think about: after the collapse of the Soviet Union, present-day Russia was given only thirty years for Russians to become less than half of its population. And twenty years out of these thirty have already passed!

Andrey PSHENITSYN

We saw a monstrous, homogeneous picture of the extinction of a nation behind the dry calculations of the last population census. The figures announced irrefutably indicate the systematic and rapid destruction of the Russian people. Data on losses in peacetime of 2,000,000 people cry out about the tragedy that is taking place, ringing bells about the terrible misfortune that has engulfed all the original Russian lands. There are calculations according to which the Russian population has decreased by 4,000,000 million people. But due to growth in the national outskirts and colossal migration from the South, a deficit of two million arose...

Reading the census data, we see before us a process of slow decline of the people that is not at all natural. The conditions formed in the country ensure a rapid process of extinction of Russians. Since the scale of the murder committed is enormous, this process can be called genocide.

There is a “clearing of territories” from dangerous aborigines. Apparently Russians carry within them “uncomfortable” forms of behavior. They contain certain social, religious, ideological features that are incompatible with the new world order.

To clear the territory of Russians, the authorities entrusted with this use certain methods. We can list several forms of destructive influence on Russians.

During the transformation, the Russian people were deprived of work. It's not just about unemployment and the collapse of industry. The Russians are deprived of their main job - creating a superstate. Russian people, creating a superstate, simultaneously created a road, a machine tool, a bomber, a mathematical school, a symphony or a lullaby. He created all this because, tirelessly, he built his great kingdom and forged his Empire.

When the Empire was destroyed, the entire thousand-year work of the Russian people was derailed. Now Russians are not allowed to build a state. Russians are unemployed on a global historical scale. The people are devoid of meaning, they are devoid of the ideology of their existence. This means that he is deprived of a way of life, that is, ways to carry out meaningful activities.

Unthinkable drunkenness, drug addiction, brutal fights and murders in doorways, gang wars, car accidents, abortions - from great unemployment. In addition, this is the result of knocking out from the people’s consciousness the semantic foundations, the main concepts on which life is built. Magic guns, the most powerful picture tubes, are aimed at Russia, burning cultural codes from the consciousness of the people. Russians today, for the most part, are cut off from their national culture, from its fundamental foundations and concepts. This does not mean clay whistles or collars with embroidery, but the basic directions connecting the people with the springs of national happiness.

Through these crystal streams the people receive energy. Through them, people receive support in the most terrible moments of their existence.

A Russian can sing or cry with happiness, and when a Pole, French or German comes, he can drive out the occupier with a pitchfork. Now the Russians are cut off from the life-giving vital forces of the people.

The Russians are thus deprived of their historical will. Cutting off Russians from national culture puts Russians outside history. It is no coincidence that we are told that our history is a dead end, nonsense, a chain of senseless and terrible crimes. Conclusion: Russians must forget about their past, or continuously repent in front of the whole world, ask for forgiveness for the fact that they are still walking and breathing. We are now forced to repent not only to Estonians, Jews and Poles. But now in front of Japan...

What is power under these conditions? The government, and political and economic entities close to it, act as the people's executioner. This is an extremely rare example in history when the government has become so disconnected from the people that it is ready to completely destroy the population under its charge. The authorities are afraid of the people and use the anesthesia method. Thousands of techniques are used for this, as long as the slain calf remains silent.

The authorities are doing their best to suppress the Russian national feeling, sometimes, however, deliberately inflating it to violent, hysterical forms. The latter is reminiscent of releasing steam, releasing pressure in an overheated boiler.

When Russian intellectuals, priests and military officers organize and act as a holistic, meaningful force, shaping the national goals of the Russian people, fighting for these goals in a legal political way - the authorities in this case mercilessly suppress and destroy these people under the slogan of the fight against “Russian fascism”.

In other cases, the authorities allow instant outbursts of Russian nationalism so that the exploding masses - without leaders, without strategic goals, led only by suffering and hatred - so that these tops take out their pain on foreigners. Thus, the authorities are trying to manipulate the offended national feeling, which only increases chaos, threatens the final knocking out of Russians from history, the inevitable collapse of society and the disintegration of territories.

The four million missing Russians are not just ethnic meat from an animal that was brought to the slaughterhouse and turned into “historical mince.” In a completely paradoxical way, these departed Russian millions demonstrate the people’s ability to resist. They left, not wanting to change themselves, their tradition and history. These are those who could not adapt to the disgusting anti-Russian order. Instead of bustling around, surviving, adapting, they drank themselves to death, did not give birth and... were not born. When a bullet pierces a human body, a huge number of blood cells attack the bullet, coat it in layers, and then die. With their dead bodies, they remove the bullet from the body. People who died or were not born in these terrible years for Russia are the blood cells of the nation.

Man is given by the Lord an inexhaustible scale of pain and suffering. From the most insignificant to the great: a toothache, a kidney stone is burning, a migraine is tormenting, a speck has gotten into the eye... Or a child is sick, a mother has died, a house has burned down... All these forms of suffering are diverse and each of them is painful in its own way . But among the suffering there is one, very rare... This is the suffering of the son of a murdered, destroyed people.

Today, the entire thinking, feeling part of the Russian people is experiencing metaphysical, cosmic suffering associated with the rapid disappearance, shallowing, and decline of their ethnic group. This silent, persistent pain imperceptibly fills our rooms, the streets of our cities, the movements of pedestrians and cars. This constant torment creeps into our everyday conversations, comes invisible to our meetings, leaves its mark on the entire worldview of the people being killed.

This suffering, which accumulates in the Russian people, should, in the opinion of the authorities, lead to the rotting of the people alive. Someone believes that our people will dissolve, melt and disappear, like last year’s snow. And, at first glance, sophisticated technologies seem to be working: Russians prefer to die rather than resist. However, all hopes for a quiet, uncomplaining departure of the Russians are wrong. They are based on false premises. All peoples, great and small, at the moment of a catastrophe, have a deep sense of self-preservation. And it cannot be drowned out by any electronic guns, or chatted with, or doused with vodka.

The Russians have enough strength for the violated sense of national justice to spill out into a national uprising. In this sense, a Russian revolt is inevitable.

Of course, a national uprising can cause a chain of uncontrollable explosions, lead to the destruction of state institutions and cause a wave of anarchy in the country. The hatred accumulated among the people is enormous. Total nihilism in souls nurtured over many years does not bode well.

In many ways, the Russian rebellion threatens the Russians themselves.

In order to minimize the existing risks, to avoid the catastrophic consequences of the Russian uprising, a Russian political, intellectual, organizational core, equipped with a strategic imperial doctrine and a high national idea, should be immediately forged. What the newspaper “Zavtra” has been doing for many years will help create a multifaceted political entity - the Russian movement, capable of directing a violent wave of national protest into the mainstream of national development, leading Russians out of the area of ​​senseless destructive rebellion, into a zone of creation... Into the spiritual space, where eternal Russian meanings burn with golden lights, for the sake of which it is not scary to live and it is not a pity to die.

Andrey Fefelov, “Tomorrow”

Over the past twenty years, more than 7 million Russians have died out in Russia. And now more people are dying than are being born. Vodka kills 70,000 people a year. 30 thousand Russians die annually from drug overdose (population of a small town). Plus 30 thousand die on the roads.
Russia ranks 1st in the world in the number of suicides among children and adolescents; 1st place in the world in the number of divorces and children born out of wedlock; 1st place in the world in the number of children abandoned by their parents.
The current ecology of the Russian ethnic group inspires fear for its future. At the international conference at the Baltic Institute of Ecology, Politics and Law, Professor Nikanorova N.M. in her report “The Concept of Ethnicity in Social Ecology” she tried to answer the question of whether the Russian ethnic group will survive.

There are four laws of ecology. Everything is connected to everything. Man is not cut off from nature. But by putting nature at the service of his social needs, a person crosses the line and forgets that he himself is the creation of this nature.
If we received some benefit from nature by violating its laws, then we will pay for it. Nature will take its revenge with ill health and degeneration.

What should a person do to avoid becoming an enemy to himself and an enemy to nature?

The problem is that people have stopped following their biological essence. For example, in a marital partnership, social preference (complementarity) comes before biological preference. A girl likes a handsome and poor guy, but she marries an ugly but rich guy whom she doesn’t like. As a result, we came to “anti-selection”.

Why does natural selection in nature not confuse us, but cause indignation among people?
A tigress will never feed a sick tiger cub. Even if all three are weak, they will throw out all three.
And we live according to social laws, raise sick children and, as a result, degenerate.
A genetically sick person can only produce sick offspring.
If nature denies a couple their desire to have children, people try to get pregnant artificially. As a result, children “born from a test tube” cannot have children either.

Living creatures have complementarity when choosing a marriage partner. The marriage partner should not be too different, that is, not a close relative. Otherness attracts. The immune system is responsible for the “correct” choice of a marriage partner.

Complementarity exists between individuals of the opposite sex, which makes it possible to determine whether it is possible to produce healthy offspring. For example, in a zoo, four female bears refused to enter into a mating relationship with a lonely bear. Then it turned out that the bear had bad genetics. The she-bears instinctively sensed this and refused to engage in mating games with him.

In addition to biological complementarity, humans also have social complementarity, which allows us to divide everyone into “friend or foe” according to a huge number of parameters.
At the same time, a person is caught between the often divergent requirements of biological and social complementarity. Romeo and Juliet fell in love at first sight (in accordance with biological complementarity), but became victims of social complementarity (the enmity of the Montague and Capulet families).

When biological complementarity wins, people marry regardless of the social status of the partner. When social complementarity wins, marriages, as a rule, fall apart. The most striking example is the marriage of Princess Diana and Prince Charles. After Diana's death, Charles married his longtime lover, Camilla Parker.

Marriages based on love turn out to be stronger and happier than marriages based on social complementarity (of convenience).
When people marry according to biological complementarity, healthy children are usually born.

Dynastic marriages have always been concluded without taking into account the biological factor. The result was the degeneration of dynasties. The last Russian Tsar, Nicholas II, had an outwardly happy family. But the heir to the throne, Tsarevich Alexei, had hemophilia, which he inherited from his mother, Empress Alexandra Feodorovna. Born Princess Alice Victoria Elena Louise Beatrice of Hesse-Darmstadt, she knew about her genetic defect. As a result, the dynasty was doomed not only historically, but also biologically.

When social factors began to prevail over biological ones (inheritance, dowry, etc.), people began to figure out how to improve the genetic line. For example, on the night of Midsummer, couples were formed according to biological complementarity. Children who were born after this night were considered a gift from God. They were called Ivans. Girls who had such children were willingly married.

Man is dual in nature: the social principle always fights the biological. Now the social is winning. People unite into societies according to the criterion of “friend or foe”. The definition of “friend or foe” is dominated by social complementarity.

The more developed the society, the stronger the social incentives and the weaker the biological requirements are perceived. As a result, marriages begin to take place within their own society - so-called endogamous marriages.

Endogamy – benefit or harm for the development of the species?

Endogamy arises out of necessity. For example, the Cossacks were forced to close themselves to endogamy. It was a matter of their survival. The Cossack went to war and might not return. The wife remained in charge of the farm. Cossack women were distinguished by their health and willpower. Women of other ethnic groups were not capable of such endurance. Only a Cossack woman could easily shoe a horse, as the famous song says.

The closure of society to endogamous marriages occurs constantly under the influence of various factors. As soon as marriages begin to take place within a community, this leads to isolation, the formation of a subculture down to its own language, religion and culture. This is how an ethnos arises - essentially an endogamous society.

Small ethnic groups got out of the situation in a well-known way: the invited guest was offered as a treat to spend the night with the most beautiful young wife of the owner. The child born became the most valuable because he was the carrier of a new genetic line.

In pre-Petrine Russia, the Russian ethnic group was united: a single Orthodox faith, a single way of life, a single language. Future queens were chosen primarily based on their health.
Peter the first became the destroyer of traditions. He introduced a rule: marriages of the royal family could only be concluded with German (later “foreign”) princesses.
There was a division of the Russian ethnic group into “noble” and others. All that was left was faith. Only Orthodox Christians were considered Russian. Therefore, in order to become a Russian queen, a foreign princess had to convert to Orthodoxy.

Peter the first not only destroyed old traditions, but also introduced new ones, due to which the ethnic group disintegrated.
The Old Believers, after Nikon’s reform, closed their minds to endogamy, since it was impossible to preserve traditions otherwise.
The “noble” class became isolated. Russian nobles preferred to speak French. Tsar Nicholas II wrote and even thought in English!

Before the 1917 revolution, Russians were a superethnos. A superethnos consists of several ethnic groups that are complementary to each other. If the state allows the existence of separate ethnic groups that are not complementary to the main state ethnic group, this creates a risk to the existence of the state.

New ethnic groups are constantly emerging. The ethnos is united by the desire to create a single society and even its own state, which, as a rule, is monoethnic. For example, Kurds, Scots.

Today, the problems of “in large numbers” and labor migrants (guest workers) in big cities have become especially acute. To enter a new society, complementarity is needed not only socially, but also biologically. However, the separated groups do not create numerous marriage pairs with representatives of the main ethnic group. They prefer to live within their own ethnic groups (diasporas): Chinese marry Chinese, Tajiks marry Tajiks.

The Nazis are known to have fought for the health of the Aryan race - there was even a special T-4 program, according to which the mentally retarded and physically handicapped were systematically destroyed. By the way, the program did not justify itself: the number of people with disabilities in the population of the German nation has not decreased.

According to the UN, there are about 200 states in the world, home to approximately 5 thousand ethnic groups. Ethnicity is primary in relation to the nation, and the nation is primary in relation to the state.

If ethnic groups are a reality, then nations and nation-states are an invention of the ruling elites for the exploitation of indigenous peoples.

A nation, like bricks, is formed by ethnic groups, held together by a common language, culture and native land.
Usually a nation includes a large number of ethnic groups. For example, the Russian nation includes many peoples. Moreover, of the 141 million population in Russia, about 80% call themselves Russians.

While still studying at the university, I read Lev Gumilyov’s book “Ethnogenesis and the Biosphere of the Earth.”
For Gumilyov, ethnicity is a system of adaptations to the landscape, transmitted through traditions, as well as the characteristics of the genotype that develops through sexual relations.
“The accumulated ethnic tradition determines the uniqueness of each ethnic group, its place among other peoples,” writes Gumilyov.
The purpose of the existence of an ethnos is to reproduce itself as an ethnos with the help of its tradition.
The most important thing in an ethnic group is the traditions that hold it together and the mechanism for their renewal.
Today the mechanisms of Russian tradition are practically broken. Is it possible to restore them?

Today, Russians are difficult to define as a nation. There are only Russians (citizens of Russia) - who live within the borders of Russia, know and reproduce the language, culture, history and traditions of this state.

A nation is justified not by the size of its population, but by the number of passionate individuals!
Pushkin, Mendeleev, Lermontov, Tchaikovsky - this is who justifies the existence of the Russian nation.
We are accustomed to measuring the lives of people by the destinies of the country, whereas it should be the other way around - the history of the country is measured by the destinies of its great sons.

According to the encyclopedia, “Russians are an East Slavic people united by a common history, culture, language and ethnic origin.”
The number of Russians in the world currently amounts to 150 million people.
Russians are the only ones who define their nationality precisely by nation, and not by country of residence, region, etc.

According to the chronicle legend “The Tale of Bygone Years” (created in the 11th - early 12th centuries), the name Rus' comes from the Varangians of the Rus tribe, called by the Slavic and Finno-Ugric tribes (Chud, Slovenes, Krivichi and Ves) in 862.
“And the Slovenians said to themselves: “Let’s look for a prince who would rule over us and judge us by right.” And they went overseas to the Varangians, to Rus'. Those Varangians were called Rus, just as others are called Swedes, and some Normans and Angles, and still others Gotlanders, so are these.”

The author of the Russian language dictionary, S.I. Ozhegov, writes that “Varangians in Ancient Rus': immigrants from Scandinavia, united in armed units for trade and robbery, often settled in Rus' and served in princely squads.”

The author of "Zadonshchina", a poetic creation of the late 14th century, glorifies Rurik as the first Russian prince.
According to the historian V.N. Tatishchev, the Varangian Rurik was descended from a Norman prince ruling in Finland and the daughter of a Slavic elder.
Lomonosov claimed that Rurik was from the Polabian Slavs, who had dynastic ties with the princes of the Ilmen Slovenes (this was the reason for his invitation to reign).

Historian B.A. Rybakov believes that one of the Varangian raids was successful, and the leader of the Scandinavian squad seized power in Novgorod; the chronicler presented the matter in such a way that the Novgorodians themselves called on the Varangian authorities to rule them.

According to another opinion of I.Ya. Froyanov, in reality there was an invitation to the Varangian king and his retinue for the purpose of providing military assistance. According to the historian, after the end of hostilities, the Varangian king Rurik overthrew the Slovenian prince Vadim the Brave and seized power.

According to the Ipatiev Chronicle, the Varangian prince Rurik first sat down to reign in Ladoga, and only after the death of his brothers he cut down the city of Novgorod and moved there. The path “from the Varangians to the Persians” also went through the Novgorod lands to the countries of Scandinavia, which, as it were, continued the path “from the Varangians to the Bulgars” to the countries of the East.

The state of Kievan Rus, led by the Rurikovichs (descendants of the Norman Rurik), was born from the symbiosis of the alien Varangians (Rus) with the Slavic population. The Russians descended into the Caspian Sea through the Volga-Don portage. For two centuries they fought and traded with Byzantium, concluding several treaties with it.

From the last quarter of the 15th century, the Moscow principality began to bear the official name of Russia. And by the turn of the 15th–16th centuries, initially as a popular and church-book name, then in official documents, the name “Russia” began to spread.

Since the middle of the 19th century, a distinction has emerged: a Russian as belonging to the state, and a “Russian” (person, language) as belonging to the people.
The word “Russian” in the plural – Russians – was not used separately as it is now (that is, as a noun), but only as an adjective in the combinations Russian land, Russian people, Russian people, Russian people, Russian language, etc.

There is a well-known saying: “scratch a Russian and you will find a Tatar.”
Many today deny the existence of the Golden Horde. But the fact remains: the Moscow principality paid tribute to the Golden Horde. The famous crown of the Russian tsars, “Monomakh’s Cap,” is a golden skullcap, according to one legend, which Ivan Kalita received from Khan Uzbek for his service and loyalty.
In 1327, Ivan Kalita, at the head of the Horde army, burned Orthodox Tver when the Tatar ambassador was killed there. Together with the Tatars, Muscovites in a punitive expedition “lay down the entire Russian land.”
The historian V.O. Klyuchevsky wrote: without the Horde, the northeastern princes “would have torn apart their Rus' into incoherent appanage rags, forever warring among themselves.”

The unification of different ethnic groups living on the same territory into a single state had not only positive aspects. The creation of nation states in Europe led to numerous wars. The rise of empires almost always gave rise to wars for the subjugation of non-imperial peoples, or a clash with another empire.

The rulers carried out wars of conquest, subjugating other peoples, and then came up with a justification for their actions in the form of a unifying national idea. They tried to use “spiritual bonds” to keep the empire from falling apart.

What is the main idea of ​​humanity that excites Russian people? What does it sound like? What is its meaning? – exclaims the famous writer and publicist S.G. Kara-Murza. – The meaning of the Russian idea is that the world order should be fair, that humanity should be a family of nations, in which we must take care of everyone and not offend the weak.

S.G. Kara-Murza names three stable components of Russian identity:
1\ Orthodoxy - it has firmly entered the ideological matrix of Russians, and no reformers can knock it out of it.
2\ Collective memory of the historical choices that Russia had to make, being, in the words of Mendeleev, “between the hammer of the West and the anvil of the East.”
3\ Russian type of thinking, combining peasant common sense with cosmic feeling. As the poet said about the Russian mind, “it soberly judges the earth, bathing in a mystical darkness.”
This combination of blocks of Russian consciousness gives it stability and flexibility. Of course, it is not ready for all blows, otherwise it would become stiff. But after blows he recovers quickly.

Four hundred years ago, Russia experienced the era of the “Time of Troubles.” The then elite (boyars) betrayed the country. They thought only about which conqueror to join. They ran first to the Poles, then to the “Tushino thief” (False Dmitry II), bargaining for privileges.
When the people put public interests above selfish ones and united around Minin and Pozharsky, only then were they able to expel the Poles from Moscow. On October 22 (November 4, new style), 1612, Russian troops stormed Kitay-Gorod, and on November 8, the Poles surrendered the Kremlin.

Our entire long and difficult history has led to the realization of a simple idea: we can only survive in Russia together. Russia cannot exist if everyone lives alone. RUSSIA IS STRONG IN UNITY! - this is the “Russian Idea”, born of the bitter experience of our history.

The destruction of the USSR again forced Russians to think - who are we?

Unfortunately, human nature is such that self-identity and national cohesion often require an enemy or an “enemy image.”

Some believe: “the peculiarities of the Russian person are in his spirituality, in his holiness, in the openness of the Russian soul; Russian people have always looked for God within themselves.”
Others believe: “spirituality has no nationality. Nationality is culture and mentality.”
Still others are convinced that “Russian national identity is not defined by the superiority of its culture and faith over others.”
The fourth argue: “there is no Russian peculiarity, there are universal laws of human society.”

Is Russia really an original civilization with its own specific “cultural matrix”?

The “genetic trace” of our ancestors is manifested in the mentality of modern Russian people. They have such qualities as: 1\ irresponsibility (“Russian maybe)”; 2\ indifference in the fate of a particular person; 3\ uneradicated features of slave psychology.

Foreigners who have lived in Russia for a long time note that among Russians all conversations end in disputes about God and eternal values; This is impossible in the West.
I recently received this comment. Jean-David Laurent writes: “Your country has been an EVIL EMPIRE and will remain so until the victorious USA finally suppresses you, will you remember the “Great Russians” that you are sitting on our dollar and will continue to sit and your ruble directly depends on our mood, will fall oil prices and you will go under, and this will happen, so stock up on crackers! We will rejoice!”

Many foreigners tried to unravel the mystery of the Russian soul. One of them was the Marquis Astolphe de Custine, who traveled around Russia in the 19th century and wrote the famous book “Russia in 1839”. In it, he called Russia a country of barbarians and slaves, a country of universal fear and bureaucratic tyranny.

“A Russian lives not by his mind, but by feeling. He follows his heart. This explains his great religiosity. Russians believe, they want to believe in something or someone: this must be understood not only in a religious sense.
A characteristic feature of Russians is the richness of feelings and affects, in other words, the intensity of inner life. The richness of inner life explains the amazing combination of opposing traits of the Russian character. Honesty, truthfulness, kindness and loyalty are combined with isolation, lies, cunning, violence, cruelty and fanatical hatred.
While the European tries to take revenge for the insult, the Russians have learned to endure suffering with fanatical patience. Russian people are accustomed to enduring suffering and resentment. If the cup is overfilled, the Russian man rebels and his long patience is irritated with furious, insane force.
It is also characteristic that Russians need strong leadership (a strong personality). They joyfully follow an energetic and recognized leader who, through personal example and warm feelings, will be able to win their trust.
If a Russian believes and feels fair treatment, he is ready to endure severity and even cruelty. Good and fair treatment is more important to him than favorable living conditions.
Russian is enthusiastic. They are always looking for ideas in their actions. Patriotic ideas are especially popular, because Russians are patriots. Every Russian is characterized by a deep love for the Motherland, for “Mother Russia.”

Who do you think wrote this? No, not Dostoevsky, not Soloviev, not Chaadaev. The authors are employees of the headquarters of the 3rd Tank Army of the Wehrmacht; May 30, 1943.

English historian Geoffrey Hosking in his book “Rulers and Victims. Russians in the Soviet Union” writes that in Russia and the USSR, nations, and people in general, were only material for the construction of the majestic edifice of the state. The Orthodox tradition, inconvenient historical facts and ideas were artificially removed from everyday life. The messianic idea of ​​the “world revolution” was superimposed on the half-forgotten idea of ​​“Moscow – the third Rome”, living in the memory of the people, thanks to which the Russians felt like the chosen people, paving the way for humanity to communism.

Head of the Department of Social Philosophy at Moscow State University, Professor K.H. Momdzhyan. believes that there is a specificity of the “Russian person”. The difference between Western and Russian mentality exists as a fact; These differences are serious and cannot be underestimated. If in the Western mentality one can see the ability to negotiate, then in our mentality one finds rather confrontation.

Who can be called a truly Russian person? Is there a “standard of a Russian person”?

Once European ambassadors asked the Russian emperor what a Russian person was. The emperor pointed to the Bashkirs, Kalmyks, and Tatars. “Where are the Russians?” - they asked him. “And all together they are Russians,” answered the emperor.

Sculptor Klodt, Count Benckendorff, Nesselrode, Totleben, Gordon, Lefort, Hannibal, Osterman, Biron, Minich, Witte, Dahl - all these foreigners who served Russia considered themselves Russian.

The great Russian poet Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin is the great-grandson of a “blackamoor” from Ethiopia, who was taken by the Turks to Istanbul and handed over to the Russian ambassador. If you believe that Peter the Great's arap was from a royal Ethiopian family, descended from the Queen of Sheba, who lived with King Solomon, then perhaps Pushkin was a Jew.

The Pushkins themselves removed themselves from Ratsha, “from the Germans,” who served the Novgorod prince Alexander Yaroslavich.

You can remain Russian even if you are a German, a Jew, an American, or even an African. Because “Russian” is an adjective (like the word “good”). This means that the Bashkirs, the Tatars, the Kalmyks, and the Chukchi are all good Russian people!

Former Minister of National Affairs of the Russian Federation, one of the main authors of the concept of the “Russian nation”, Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences V. Tishkov, believes that the Russian people as a nation do not exist at all. “Take Russians from the Arkhangelsk region, from the Stavropol Territory or from Kamchatka, for example, and you will get three completely different “peoples”, who will only have in common their language, and, if they are believers, then Orthodoxy.”

But if, as some call, “Russia is for Russians”, and “Russian is Orthodox,” then what to do with the Koryaks, Alyutors, Yakuts with their pagan deities and shamans, as well as the oil, gas and diamonds of their ancestral land?

The question stubbornly arises: are Dagestanis, Chechens, Buryats, Yakuts, Kalmyks, Tatars and two hundred other nationalities a Russian nation?

Russian and Russian are close concepts, but not synonymous. A Russian may not be a Russian. But a non-Russian can be Russian in spirit, in mentality.

Russians have always been a universal, not an ethnic nation. Anyone could call themselves Russian. If we lose the quality of universality, we will lose Russia.

Professor A.G. Dugin believes: “The Russian people are not made up of Russian people. This is a combined people, a compatible, open people, including completely diverse ethnic streams. The Russian people are not an exclusive people, they are an inclusive people, they absorb everyone into themselves. The inclusiveness of the Russian people does not allow us to associate it with biological characteristics.”

“Russian is not a nationality, it’s a worldview! Russia will never be a country of comfort - neither material nor spiritual. It was, is and will be the country of the Spirit, the place of its incessant battle for the hearts of people; and therefore its path is different from other countries. Russia has always been strong in spirit. She is an example of how, despite all logical arguments, the Spirit is Alive! This is its main feature and difference from other countries. Each people has its own path and its own destiny. Russia has been and will be a country of free spirit. This is the place where Fate is discovered. Therefore, one can only believe in Russia. Russia will be saved by spirituality, which will surprise the world; will save both him and himself!”
(from my true-life novel “Stranger Strange Incomprehensible Extraordinary Stranger” on the New Russian Literature website

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