{"id":1667,"date":"2005-06-02T00:43:45","date_gmt":"2005-06-02T04:43:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2005\/06\/russias_future\/"},"modified":"2005-06-02T00:43:45","modified_gmt":"2005-06-02T04:43:45","slug":"russias_future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2005\/06\/russias_future\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia&#8217;s Future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Young Russians face health crisis\" href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/europe\/4600619.stm\">This<\/a> can&#8217;t be good:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Russian children and teenagers are less healthy today than at any stage since World War II, the country&#8217;s interior minister has said.<br \/>\nHomelessness, drugs, alcoholism and illiteracy among young Russians, threaten future development, Rashid Nurgaliyev told a Moscow conference.<br \/>\n. . .<br \/>\nSome 700,000 children are orphaned or homeless, and 4m use drugs, he added.<br \/>\n. . .<br \/>\nIn sum, Mr Nurgaliyev said, the condition of Russian children and teenagers is comparable with that after the bloody civil war of the 1920s or World War II, when much of the country lay in ruins.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Given the above, it&#8217;s no surprise Russia has a growing adoption industry, largely fueled by foreign money.  At any rate, it looks like Russia  will have a rocky stretch the next 10-20 years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2005\/06\/russias_future\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to Russia&#8217;s Future\"><p>This can&#8217;t be good: Russian children and teenagers are less healthy today than at any stage since World War II, the country&#8217;s interior minister has said. Homelessness, drugs, alcoholism and illiteracy among young Russians, threaten future development, Rashid Nurgaliyev told a Moscow conference. . . . Some 700,000 children are orphaned or homeless, and 4m [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1667","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1667"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1667\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}