Russian birth rate

23 Oct: Russia tinderbox to watch as Muslims rise

Daniel Pipes THE stabbing murder on October 10, 2013 of an ethnic Russian, Yegor Shcherbakov, 25, apparently by a Muslim from Azerbaijan, led to anti-migrant disturbances in Moscow, vandalism and assaults, the arrest of 1200 people and brought to the fore a major tension in Russian life. Not only do ethnic Muslims account for up to 23 of Russia’s 144 million, 15 per cent, but their proportion is growing fast. Alcoholism-plagued ethnic Russians are said to have European birth rates and African death rates, with the former just 1.4 per woman and the latter 60 years for men. In Moscow, ethnic Christian women have an average of 1.1 children. In contrast, Muslim women bear 2.3 children on average and have fewer abortions than their Russian counterparts. In Moscow, Tatar women have six children and Chechen and Ingush women 10. In addition, between three million and four million Muslims have moved…