section_path: Epidemiology/Geographical epidemiology/Russia
section_name: Russia
paragraph_text: Russia
  
  Russia has achieved particularly dramatic progress with a decline in its TB mortality rate—from 61.9 per 100,000 in 1965 to 2.7 per 100,000 in 1993; however, mortality rate increased to 24 per 100,000 in 2005 and then recoiled to 11 per 100,000 by 2015.