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according to Igor Efremov, a researcher and specialist in demographics at the Gaidar Institute in Moscow. Total deaths in Russia average close to 2mn annually, though the number increased during the pandemic and approached 2.5mn last year.
Russia’s life expectancy shrank by 3.3 years due to the coronavirus pandemic, the Deputy Director of the Health Ministry said on Wednesday. "According to a presidential decree on the national development goals of the Russian Federation, we must achieve a life expectancy of 78 years by 2030. I regret to say the COVID pandemic slightly put us back and we have lost a total of 3.3 years in life expectancy over the last two years," Valeria Gulshina disclosed.
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