Declining Russian population and language...

Dryankola   Wed May 02, 2007 6:17 am GMT
As Russian population is declining day by day, do you think the language will be unimportant in the next 20 years? Or will the declining population be in favour of Russia as terms of national development and the Russian language?
Mesi   Wed May 02, 2007 12:17 pm GMT
With Putin it seems no general decline in the future
Linguist   Wed May 02, 2007 6:34 pm GMT
Dryankola - your data is outdated, birthrate is higher then deathrate.

НЕ ДОЖДЁТЕСЬ!!!!
Franco   Thu May 03, 2007 3:22 am GMT
Для наших детей, русский язык только останется в памяти.
WTF?   Thu May 03, 2007 3:43 am GMT
I don't understand you people. Quantity does not mean quality. China, India and the Arabic countries have countless populations, yet nobody is rushing to learn their languages. On the contrary, their people learn English.
Russian will always remain a great language, if not for the masses, then for the few chosen ones who know its value and contribution to literature.
kawaii   Thu May 03, 2007 9:18 am GMT
<<China, India and the Arabic countries have countless populations, yet nobody is rushing to learn their languages. On the contrary, their people learn English.>>

For the rest of the world, Russian language is not as important as Russian people think.

Chinese and Arabic are more important than Russian.
Dryankola   Thu May 03, 2007 11:15 am GMT
Linguist, actually your data is outdated, believe me, they are declining, just pop in some population sites...
Linguist   Thu May 03, 2007 7:01 pm GMT
My source is: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4845164.stm

From 8.7 births per 1,000 people in 2000, Russia has gone to 10.4 in 2004, state statistics show.

Such figures compare favourably with other countries, notes leading Russian obstetrician Vladimir Serov: Germany recorded a rate of 8.3 births per thousand last year, while for Japan it was 9.5 and, in the UK, 10.8.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-adv/specialsale/spotlight2006/articles_v3/babyboom.html

Government statistics prove that Russian birth rates are on a par with those of Germany or Italy, with the same 1.3 to 1.5 babies born per woman of reproductive. More than that, the annual number of births has skyrocketed in Russia to more than 800,000, from the 380,000 of the mid-1990s

PRESIDENT PUTIN'S GREAT SPEECH:

http://www.president.kremlin.ru/eng/speeches/2007/04/26/1209_type70029_125494.shtml

This year, Russian Language Year, is a good time for us to remember once again that Russian is the language of a historical fraternity of peoples, a true language of international communication.

The Russian language not only preserves an entire layer of truly global achievements but is also the living space for the many millions of people in the Russian-speaking world, a community that goes far beyond Russia itself. As the common heritage of many peoples, the Russian language will never become the language of hatred or enmity, xenophobia or isolationism.

In my view, we need to support the initiative put forward by Russian linguists to create a National Russian Language Foundation, the main aim of which will be to develop the Russian language at home, support Russian language study programmes abroad and generally promote Russian language and literature around the world.

The projects are starting to yield their first results. The Healthcare national project, for example, has brought results in the form of victories, small victories, yes, but victories nonetheless, represented by the lives of thousands of our fellow citizens. The reduction in the death rate and rise in the birth rate that we achieved in 2006 and that has continued in the first months of this year are clear evidence that we are working in the right direction.
Alba   Thu May 03, 2007 7:50 pm GMT
who fucking cares about Russia?????????? LMAO not meee!!!!!!! and im sure none of the former USSR countries care either....
mishuk   Fri May 04, 2007 12:18 am GMT
Who cares about Alba except his drunk mother?
Only his drunk father!
Dryankola   Fri May 04, 2007 3:18 am GMT
Linguist, and here is my source, look for 2 minutes and you wil understand:
http://www.mnsu.edu/emuseum/information/population/country.php?FILE=RS&NAME=Russia

And also this one: http://www.intute.ac.uk/sciences/worldguide/html/1002_people.html

It says : Changing Population (Life expectancy, births, deaths and fertility)

The population growth rate for Russia is -0.37% (2006 est.) (world growth rate at 2006 is 1.14%). The country also saw migration of 1.03 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2006 est.).

What will you say about this?
mishuk   Fri May 04, 2007 4:35 am GMT
Sorry, Dryan, for getting into discussion but the first link you gave is based on the linear basis, while Russian population doesn't change in a linear way. The dynamics is much more complicated than this. In fact bithrates increased and deathrates dropped during 2006, so it's weird to start countdown in 2005 which is not the worst year in a matter of demographics.
What will you say now?
mishuk   Fri May 04, 2007 4:43 am GMT
Plus it's rather stupid to make any conclusions on the influence a nation exerts by counting the number of people in the nation. Why don't you take another fact?
Russian GDP in 1999 was 200 bln USD, in 2006 Russian GDP was 1 trillioln USD.
Dryankola   Fri May 04, 2007 11:11 am GMT
First I have to say that you are rather rude while talking on the internet. You should never use such expressions like "stupid" or else to people unfamiliar. You can really get in a big trouble. "Think seven times more before you cut" , I think you know this proverb, don't you?
Anyway, It is not a site that belongs to 2005. On the contrary, it is rather current. On every site you see on the internet will tell you that Russian population is declining. Even Russian Government has recently started a campaign to expand breeding, have you ever heard about it? Because if you heard, you wouldn't speak so unconsciously about Russian population...
Linguist   Fri May 04, 2007 6:37 pm GMT
Dryankola Дрянькола - don't you believe to Washington post? to BBC? Do you think they cheat you? You'r right, Russian gov paied them money to make pro-Russian propaganda. And don't beleive to Putin of course, he's evil, read only your resources for total happiness.