"Everybody, they deserve due process and right now you have just a very nasty story, " Cashman added.

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The story with the birth rate is not quite as dramatic, but considering that Russia underwent a nasty recession in 2008-09 the fact that births did not decrease (as they did in most other East European countries) should be taken as a positive.

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