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Historically, local authorities have attempted absurd policies, such as criminalizing death on specific weekdays to reduce mortality rates officially. As Zion stresses, the implications of such laws often lead to unreliable statistics and a lack of meaningful data, which cloud our understanding of the true state of Russia’s demographics. Over the last fifteen years, the absence of accurate birth and death rate statistics makes it challenging to estimate the real population figures accurately.