The learned professor assumes that while a long-continued war had strengthened rather than weakened the instinct of paternal devotion , it had also dulled other humanitarian instincts , and raised to the first magnitude the law of the survival of the fittest , with the result that when the exodus took place the strong , the intelligent , and the ...
Yearly Population Growth Rate 1  (%) The current population of the Russian Federation is 143,387,960 as of Wednesday, April 19, 2017, based on the latest United Nations estimates. 2  Russia population is equivalent to 1.91% of the total world population. 3  Russia ranks number 9 in the list of countries (and dependencies) by population.
Square Miles of Russia. The square miles of Russia total 6.6 million. It is the biggest country in the world. It has a population of approximately 149 million. There are several major cities, including St. Petersburg and Moscow, its capital.