In 2023, 460,400 people in Russia were diagnosed with mental disorders, surpassing pre-COVID levels and marking the highest incidence in the past decade, according to the independent Russian news outlet iStories, citing new data for last year recently published by the Ministry of Health. The latest figure represents a slight increase from 460,100 diagnoses in 2022 and 430,000 diagnoses in 2021. The detection of mental illnesses in Russia decreased from the early 2000s until 2017, rose slightly in 2018 and 2019, but sharply declined in 2020 due to the pandemic and lockdowns, which limited diagn…