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Russia: Vladimir Putin wants to boost the birth rate
Russia: Vladimir Putin wants to boost the birth rate – (France 2)
Vladimir Putin wants to revive the birth rate in his country at all costs, with financial aid, while the conflict continues in Ukraine.
261 pregnant women dancing together: a world record organized in Russia. While the deadly conflict continues in Ukraine, the Russian president wants to boost the birth rate. With a big leap back: “Let us remember that in our Russian families, in the time of our grandmothers and great-grandmothers, there were sometimes up to 8 children”defended Vladimir Putin.
The right to abortion in the crosshairs
In Russia, the average number of children per woman is 1.5. To encourage vocations, the president rehabilitated the status of mother heroine invented by Stalin for mothers of 10 children. MPs propose releasing detained women so that they can give birth. The right to abortion itself is in the crosshairs. In recent years, however, measures have favored the birth rate. Mothers receive 230 euros for childbirth, and maternal capital of 6,000 euros for the life of the child.
