Perhaps the collapse led to less opportunity for health care.

did nothing to improve?

No need to blame the dictator.

Not to defend him exactly. And probably he, like the US, spends money on the military first.

Still, wasn't there a big economic collapse at the beginning? And a lot of chaos.

and it looks like he has done nothing to improve things.
Wonder if that 50 billion he spent on the Winter Olympics could have helped?

...it goes against my preconceptions that any aspect of US foreign policy is bad, so anyone we support is bad, so anyone fighting someone we support is good, so anyone supporting someone fighting someone we support is good, so.....

"Are you going to sit there and criticize Putin after the US dropped nuclear bombs on Japan!?"

his domestic failings.

Sid

FFS, we could have sent some arms to the Ukranian army, no need for us to send soldiers, but FFS, scum Putin only understands force...he'd back down over that.

Yesterday a jackass told me I couldn't use adjectives to describe Putin because I don't know him personally. Seriously. That is how far some have gone in their support. That in itself blows away the idea that they aren't really his supporters.

according to the data. Its all seemingly related to a harsh life and lack of hope that things will get better.

It seems to suggest the opposite. Alcohol consumption is strongly implicated in mortality trends.

EDIT:
The article says that Russia has lower birth- and higher death-rates, because it is permeated with some depressing attitude.

I remember an interview a russian woman gave on TV. She said something like the Soviet Union stole their optimism. The Soviet Union had the attitude that a citizen has to sacrifice personal wealth and personal happiness for the well-being of the state. And even though the Soviet Union no longer exists, she said, people that lived in it are unable to shake off that indoctrination that it's your duty to sacrifice yourself and that you are not entitled to happiness.

he cannot escape responsibility for not dealing with this issue.

that the man who has lead the Government in some fashion since 1999 has nothing to do with the state of their society?

I guess that lets Brownback and Walker off the hook.

That's like saying: "Now that racism is illegal in the US, there will be no more racism."

It's a psychological issue deeply ingrained into the russian mindset. As I wrote in my edit, it's probably the soviet mindset that personal happiness is not something you are entitled to. Country goes first.

since Putin took over to make more people hopeless.

Or do you think the government can do nothing to improve peoples lives?

It stayed about the same. Life expectancy in Russia has nothing to do with Putin.

in Russia.

I guess it's the same here, why do we keep yammering about Reagenomics and the GOP attack on rights when the government doesn't effect anyone's life.

QOL = Quality Of Life

Once again, Putin apologists need to listen to themselves. He has been in defacto or dejure power for 14 years. He is absolutely responsible for the Quality of Life in Russia at this point.

Bwaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!

under the Kleptocracy.

production, it's hard for quality of life to improve.

I well remember the collapsing banks and people losing all their savings.

Even Sachs jumped the neo-liberal ship after that mess.

The mind boggles.

Nothing in Russia is Putin's fault, yes?

Didntchaknow?

we can't blame Bush for anything that happened here from 2000-2008.

For the common folk, I mean. I think there are some wealthy people that live very well. But the regular people live in pretty bad apartments where sometimes there is water and plumbing and sometimes not. Same with electricity. Horrible dark winters. It's no wonder they have a huge alcohol problem. I have read about the kids that just live on the streets. They all sniff chemicals to kill the reality of what their awful lives are.

The Russian people have always had a bad time of it. Back generations and generations. Hard people living in a really hard land.

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And yet the lives of the common people have not improved. But we can't blame Putin for the way the country is run.

Absurd.

The Putin love here is delusional and sickening.

$50 Billion was spent of which $30 Billion was stolen by the oligarchs and organized crime syndicates (of which there is considerable overlap).

http://www.theguardian.com/sport/2013/jun/18/putin-kraft-superbowl-ring-sochi-winter-olympics

According to a detailed report issued by Russian opposition leaders in May, businessmen and various consiglieres of Putin have stolen up to $30bn from funds intended for Olympic preparations. This has pushed the cost of the winter games, historically far less expensive than their summer counterpart to over $50bn, more than four times the original estimate. That $50bn price tag would make them the most expensive games in history, more costly than the previous twenty-one winter games combined.

per capita GDP (which your graphs show).

Growing inequality in Russia

The most unequal of the developed countries is the USA. According to OECD data, its Gini coefficient is 0.38, well above the values in the UK (0.34), Japan (0.33), Germany (0.30) France (0.29) and Denmark (0.26). What is more, inequality in the USA has been increasing by an average of 0.5% per annum since the mid 1980s.

According to the United Nations’ Human Development Report 2010, the USA’s Gini coefficient is even higher, at 0.41 (see Table 3 of the report). But this is still better than that of Russia, with a figure of 0.44, a figure that has markedly worsened over time ...

The Gini coefficient for Russia is the same as the average of the 39 developing countries with the lowest level of human development; and developing countries are generally much less equal than developed ones.

http://pearsonblog.campaignserver.co.uk/?p=1708

though linked are not the same:

In fact, if we zoom out from the early 1990s, where Parsons has located the Russian “mortality crisis,” we will see something astounding: it is not a crisis—unless, of course, a crisis can last decades. “While the end of the USSR marked one [of] the most momentous political changes of the twentieth century, that transition has been attended by a gruesome continuity in adverse health trends for the Russian population,” writes Nicholas Eberstadt in Russia’s Peacetime Demographic Crisis: Dimensions, Causes, Implications, an exhaustive study published by the National Bureau of Asian Research in 2010. Eberstadt is an economist who has been writing about Soviet and Russian demographics for many years. In this book-length study, he has painted a picture as grim as it is mystifying—in part because he is reluctant to offer an explanation for which he lacks hard data...

And then there is the dying. In a rare moment of what may pass for levity Eberstadt allows himself the following chapter subtitle: “Pioneering New and Modern Pathways to Poor Health and Premature Death.” Russians did not start dying early and often after the collapse of the Soviet Union. “To the contrary,” writes Eberstadt, what is happening now is “merely the latest culmination of ominous trends that have been darkly evident on Russian soil for almost half a century.” With the exception of two brief periods—when Soviet Russia was ruled by Khrushchev and again when it was run by Gorbachev—death rates have been inexorably rising. This continued to be true even during the period of unprecedented economic growth between 1999 and 2008. In this study, published in 2010, Eberstadt accurately predicts that in the coming years the depopulation trend may be moderated but argues that it will not be reversed; in 2013 Russia’s birthrate was still lower and its death rate still higher than they had been in 1991. And 1991 had not been a good year.

Your link is to mortality rate.

The OP's title is gross deception of what has happened under Putin, which is a life expectancy explosion. You need to edit your title because it is a flat out lie.

fixed

exceeds the quality of us decadent Putin-hating Americans. Shouldn't be long....

or just comrade spies?

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and there's this:

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Who wouldn't be?

Chernobyl

Nuclear power plants and nuclear pollution.

Russia has it bad.

it doesn't look like cancer is a rising cause of death, which would be a result of Chernobyl.

Cesium in heart muscles causes heart attacks, for instance.

Russia has a bad case of nuclear radiation. They have been bloody loose with their handling of nuclear by-products. Then Chernobyl blew up. That's the truth which many will deny and downplay, but the fact is radiation effects have been covered up by governments the world over. Why? Because it's big business and war making rolled into one.

but we would have to see stronger effects closer to Chernobyl, like in Ukraine. (I have no data either way.
But the relentless pollution that Russia and the Soviets produced might also enter into it.