More4 - Documentaries - Death of a Nation

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Wed 16 May 2007 9pm
Fifteen years after the fall of Communism, Marcel Theroux goes on a personal journey through Putin's Russia.

He discovers a country that's literally dying.

Facts about Russia:

- In the first six months of 2005, the Russian population fell by half a million;

- By the middle of this century Russia could lose up to half of its people, according to Russian government stats;

- Life expectancy for men is 56 years, the same as Bangladesh;

- Ten years ago, the life expectancy for men in Russia was 63;

- The World Health Organisation says that at a conservative estimate more than a million people will have died because of AIDS in Russia by 2020;

- Every other newborn baby is diagnosed with a disease at birth... (Facts cont on p2).

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Theroux talks to doctors about Russia's demographic crisis, which is threatening the survival of the nation

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Marcel Theroux meets a Russian oligarch - formerly a humble geologist in Soviet times, now a multi-millionaire

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