12 February 2004 04:49
Five women aged 124 live in Russia
MOSCOW. Feb 15 (Interfax) - Russia is home to five women who are 124 years of age, said Irina Zbarskaya, chief of the
census and demographic statistics department of the State Statistics Committee.
Three of them live in Dagestan, one in Chechnya, and one in Kabardino-Balkaria, Zbarskaya told a Thursday news
conference in Moscow.
The oldest living man in Russia is 122 and lives in Chechnya.
However, Statistics Committee chief Vladimir Sokolin said that Russia holds last place in Europe with a life
expectancy of 65-66 years. [RU EUROPE EEU EMRG] ml tl
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