That's all - no hydraulic booster but 36 vice-presidents)
There is a joke here in Russia that AutoVAZ can't conduct it's new cars crash-tests because the manikin always tries to get out of the car)))

The only reason of success of russian auto-producers are high import duties. Just go to official site of any international producer and compare the prices. I did it with VW Touareg V6 TDI:
Russia 77500 USD
US 47500 USD

Nevertheless I drive Toyota. I'd better pay more but get quality and safety.

Replies: @timivanov

There is no premoderation. New commentators who insert 2 or more links into some of their first posts are relegated to the spam cue.

Replies: @timivanov

RusFed-o-phile makes valid points saving me the trouble of doing so. In 2012, the Muslim Caucasus republics accounted for 6.3% of all births.

Tatastan and Bashkortostan (both with substantial Russian minorities) accounted for another 4.1%.

In reality, if you were to remove all the majority Muslim states from the picture, the rate of natural decrease in 2012 wouldn't be about zero but about -100,000. I.e., equivalent to the overall one year improvement between 2011 and 2012.

Replies: @timivanov, @AP

Yeah sure. The Caucasian and other 'muslim' republics (Tatarstan 14,5; Bashkortostan 14,5, KBR 15,9; KCR 13,5 and Adygea 12,8 births per 1.000) will soon outbred the 'Russian' oblasts like Perm (14,8); Orenburg (14,7), Tyumen (17,2), Zabaykalsk (16,1), Irkutsk (15,9) and many others. Also there are persistent rumours that the 3 most 'fruitful' caucasus republics are considerably overstating their numbers (several 100k in case of Dagestan and Chechnya). The North Caucasus Federal district consists only of a mere 6,6% of Russia's population. If you substract Stavropol Krai and the orthodox North Ossetia they make up even less: only 4,2% (and 6% of all births). Hardly a threat, even less so since Chechnya's and Ingushetia's are the only 2 federal subjects whose birth rate declined considerably in 2012 (by 9-10%).

Regarding the gastarbeiters from the stans: even if they figure out how to reproduce without female contribution they are'nt numerous enough. On a serious note: the gender imbalance among them is ridiculously high (especially in the 17-45 yo cohort which means it's basically all):

http://berserk-spb.livejournal.com/12921.html

Try harder next time.

Replies: @timivanov