World Affairs Journal - Drunken Nation: Russia’s Depopulation Bomb
http://www.worldaffairsjournal.org/2009%20-%20Spring/full-Eberstadt.html

The statistics and causes of Russia's startling post-Soviet population decline...

"The upsurge of illness and mortality, furthermore, has been disproportionately concentrated among men and women of working age—meaning that Russia’s labor force has been shrinking more rapidly than the population overall."