MOSCOW: More than 700 Russian schools are set to close this year because of a slump in the number of children of school age, Russia’s chief public health doctor said on Wednesday.
Russia saw birth rates drop dramatically in the turbulent 1990s and its demographic situation has remained negative, with more deaths than births, ever since.
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