Russia's birth rates have been falling for decades, and the war in Ukraine has made it worse.
Russian President Vladimir Putin is urging Russians to have more children. 
"Large families must become the norm," Putin said in a speech Tuesday. 
Russian birth rates are falling amid war in Ukraine and a deepening economic crisis.

Russian President Vladimir Putin is urging women to have as many as eight children as the number of dead Russian soldiers continues to rise in his war with Ukraine, worsening the country’s population crisis.

Addressing the World Russian People’s Council in Moscow on Tuesday, Putin said the country must return to a time when large families were the norm.

“Many of our grandmothers and great-grandmothers, had seven, eight, or even more children,” Putin said.

  • bioemerl@kbin.social
    4·
    11 months ago

    is doing that by lifting restrictions it previously had on the number of kids per family.

    No. They are trying to culturally push people to have kids now. Dropping one child not only didn’t work, their birth rates went down since then.

    Putin asking Russians to make more kids won’t magically improve demographics

    No, but Putin can do more than ask. So can China.

    • Sanyanov@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      11 months ago

      Russia already has

      -Childbirth propaganda everywhere

      -Payments to mothers giving birth (“mother’s capital”)

      -Strong benefits for people with kids when buying housing

      -Generous maternity leave

      -Strong infrastructure of kindergardens

      -Fairly strict anti-abortion laws

      And a lot more. It kinda already does its best.