Ukraine’s population decreased by about 170,000 people in 2016, the government reported last month, underscoring a demographic trend that began after the country declared its independence from the Soviet Union in 1991, and which threatens to derail the country’s political and economic development.
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A woman pushes a pram between snowdrifts as she walks past open air frescos at the Mykhaylo Gold Domes Cathedral in Kyiv on Jan. 6.
