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Titolo: successi del capitalismo in Russia - 2

The number of suicides in Russia tripled since the 1960s
If someone officially announced about 20 years ago that Russia would take
one of the leading positions in the world on the number of suicides, nobody
would believe that person. Suicides did not match the country filled with
socialistic optimism. The number of mentally unstable Russians grows every
year. Sometimes, people bid farewell to their lives because they do not want
to live in this country. The statistics is quite frightening: about 60,000
Russian people committed suicide last year. This number equals the
population of a small town.
This situation can be observed not only in Russia, but on the entire
post-Soviet territory. Sixty thousand suicides exceed the critical level
determined by the World Health Organization. The research conducted by the
Russian Center for Social and Judicial Psychiatry shows, there is a certain
suicidal differentiation, based on sexual, ethnic and social indications.
For example, men commit suicides six times as much as women do. Males of
45-54 years of age commit suicides more frequently than males of another age
group. Suicides mainly take place because of alcoholism and depression.
Teenagers of 15-19 years old form another large group of people on the
number of suicides - 212 people on 100,000. Russia's Sverdlovsk region is
the leading territory in this respect. Losing 2,500 teenagers every year
because of suicides, Russia ranks first on the sad list. The second place is
taken by the USA: 1,800 teenagers kill themselves every year. Russia ranks
third in the world on the number of teenage suicides per capita, following
Sri Lanka and Kazakhstan.
The research conducted by the mentioned center showed, mental disorders were
not the main reason for committing suicides among Russian people. Social
factors are not predominant either. In addition, experts point out the
growing trend of suicides committed by the people of a higher social status.
More than 50 percent of self-murderers make their decision in a state of
temporary insanity, especially if it goes about terminally ill people, when
no one and nothing can help them.
The one-way love issue takes a special place among suicidal motives. This
reason makes 42.2 percent of girls and 36.6 percent of young men under 16
years old kill themselves. The situation in the Russian army stands out as
well: up to 70 percent of all suicides among military men are committed
during the first year of the service. In prisons, 60 percent of all suicides
are committed during the first three months after the imprisonment and
during the last months before the release. Natural factors play an important
role too: suicides become more frequent in spring and during full moon
phases. Russian self-murders are not original when it comes to the ways of
committing suicides. Most often, people hang themselves, they also use (in
decreasing order) poison, knives, fire arms, they jump off high buildings,
etc, or drown.
The issue of suicides in Russia is very serious, it even makes foreign
specialists evince interest in it. Murray Feshbach, well-known American
specialist on Russia, has recently published a book titled "Russia's Health
and Demographic Crisis: Policy Implications and Consequences." The professor
believes, 60,000 suicides a year are definitely a reason for a very serious
concern. However, it is not known, if the number includes the people, who
commit suicide when driving, if the number includes teenagers, who kill
themselves over bad family treatment, and so on. According to the
information, which has been recently published by the Russian Healthcare
Ministry, children between five and nine years old commit suicides too.
Feshbach thinks it is a horrible phenomenon, which testifies to serious
problems in the Russian society.
According to the report from the WHO, Russia takes the second position in
the world on the number of suicides after Lithuania. Russia is followed by
Belarus, Estonia, Kazakhstan, Latvia and Ukraine. The situation in Lithuania
is probably explained with drug addiction, alcohol beverages, the growth of
the HIV-infection statistics. The same can be said about Estonia: the number
of HIV-positive people there is larger in comparison with Russia and
Ukraine. That is why, people decide to kill themselves, because they will
decease anyway. A low living standard, stresses, illnesses, alcoholism, drug
addiction are the reasons of high statistics of suicides in other countries
of the CIS.
The average age of poor people in Russia is 47 years. A lot of them are
highly qualified specialists having a higher education. A lot of people
simply gave up fighting everyday problems, which can also be considered a
motive to commit suicide. The number of suicides has tripled since the 1960s
in Russia: 22,000 in 1960-1965 against 60,000 last year. The critical
number, according to the WHO, is 20 suicides per 100,000 people. The figure
is a lot larger in Russia. The WHO considers 50 incidents of tuberculosis
per 100,000 people as an epidemic. In Russia, the official number of TB-sick
people is 87 per 100,000.
Both the American professor and Russian doctors do not know, what should be
done to make people reject suicidal ideas. On the other hand, it is not
really hard to find an answer: state priorities should be changed.
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Forse i problemi con lo zar erano differenti ?
Vogliamo forse negare che quando c'era Gorbaciov il tenore di vita dei
russi era cmq inferiore a quello occidentale ? 
Il sistema comunista non ha funzionato in Russia. Con questo non si
vuole negare i mali del capitalismo. Solo mantenere una certa
necessaria obiettivitą. 

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