#Russia State Duma deputy Mikhail Matveyev: ‘mass immigration serves to sweep the government’s demographic policy disaster under the carpet’.

Matveyev also says that ‘Russia is changing from an Orthodox and Slavic country into an Asian-Muslim country’ and lists the reasons why ethnic Russians are not having children: ‘uncertainty about the future, lack of optimism about one’s own future and the future of one’s loved ones, the factor of stable employment, the housing issue’.

Matveyev, of course, discreetly omits one important demographic factor, which is the death and disability of hundreds of thousands of Russians in the war, but I don’t think he can afford to do that even as a member of parliament.

I’m not sharing his anti-immigrant sentiments, but I dedicate this to all those who rave about ‘conservative Russia as a bastion of Christianity’ and its economy, because things look much more gloomy on the ground.

His full rant, in Russian: https://t.me/begmedia/769