Rubma:

Sweet, Russian population declines are driving their brilliance at chess....meanwhile, next to article you linked, the option to purchase a Russian bride is presented. I get it now...they will force or coerce the absorbtion of ex-USSR territories, and send their quickly declining number of fertile females out to re-populate the mother-land with whatever they can get to mount them.

Don't know if the "strategery" the author admires is chess or 52-pickup.

Apparently Russia pays people to have kids (so I've heard)...apparently, not enough. Granted, considering domestic violence was nearly the norm until about 15 years ago, can't really blame the Russian women for not wanting to crank out some kids, nor for become mail-order brides.