MOSCOW Russia's first post-Soviet census has revealed that more than 50,000 villages dotting the map are actually ghost towns supplied with gas and electricity and functioning at the expense of real cities and villages.Vladimir Sokolin, the nation's chief statistician, said preliminary results of the 2002 census showed 145.2 million people permanently living in the country - a drop of 1.8 million people from the time of the last census in 1989 Sokolin said the census figure was helped by a massive inflow of Russians from former Soviet republics over the past decade, and that the country's a...
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