Russia’s population is declining, and not just because of horrendous losses in the Ukraine war. Vladimir Putin therefore wants Russian women to have more children.
Moscow – Also the huge losses in Ukraine war are likely to play a role in thousands of Russian soldiers being left behind in destroyed tanks and never seeing their homeland again. While Ukrainian soldiers continue to stand on Russian soil in the Kursk region, the population of the multi-ethnic state is apparently decreasing, and not just because of the fighting.
Population in Russia: The population is not only declining because of the war in Ukraine
According to the United Nations (UNO), the population is threatened with… Russia By the year 2100, the population will drop drastically from the current 143.5 million inhabitants to an estimated only 100 million people. For comparison: That would be a decline of almost the entire population of southwest European Spain (47.8 million inhabitants).
The autocratic and versatile brutal one MoscowAccording to “heute journal”, ruler Vladimir Putin therefore wants to… ZDF manifest a law that should criminalize even the call to refuse to father and have children.
Vladimir Putin’s Russia: Autocrat turns to Russian people about children
According to the report in “today journal“From October 8th, Putin receives and honors large families with “ever increasing frequency”. On November 12, 2023, the 72-year-old Russian ruler said in a speech: “Let us remember that our Russian grandmothers and great-grandmothers often had seven, eight and even more children. Let’s preserve and revive this wonderful tradition.”
The ZDF With regard to Russia, reports on a demographic problem; the birth rate has not been this low since the end of the Soviet Union in 1991. In the Russian Duma, the lower parliamentary house in Putin’s autocracy, a law is currently being discussed that is intended to curb the alleged “propaganda for the childless ideology”. At least that’s the idiosyncratic interpretation in Moscow.
official: | Russian Federation (Rossiyskaya Federazija) |
Head of State: | President Vladimir Putin |
Residents: | 143.5 million* |
Capital city: | Moscow |
Area: | 17,074,636 km² |
*Estimate by the Federal Agency for Civic Education, accessed on October 9, 2024 (as of December 2022)
Fewer children in Russia: Putin confidant blames the USA and Europe
According to “heute journal”, Russian MPs’ proposals include fines of 400,000 rubles (equivalent to 3,800 euros) for individuals or even prison sentences if, for example, someone conspicuously raves about a childless life on social networks or the media or even advertises it make.
Politicians like Putin confidant Vyacheslav Viktorovich Volodin, who is the chairman of the State Duma, publicly blame the USA and Europe for what they see as unsustainable developments. However, without providing any evidence for this.
Population: To Moscow – List of megacities in Russia
Moscow | 13.01 |
Saint Petersburg | 5.60 |
Novosibirsk | 1.63 |
Yekaterinburg | 1.54 |
Kazan | 1.31 |
Nizhny Novgorod | 1.22 |
Chelyabinsk | 1.19 |
Krasnoyarsk | 1.18 |
Samara | 1.17 |
Ufa | 1.14 |
Rostov-on-Don | 1.14 |
Omsk | 1.12 |
Krasnodar | 1.10 |
Voronezh | 1.05 |
Perm | 1.03 |
Volgograd | 1.02 |
Source: Russian census of October 1, 2021
Alleged advertising for childless life: There are harsh penalties in Russia
That’s not all the threats: like that Business Insiders (BI) writes, state officials who spread such content face fines of 800,000 rubles (around 7,700 euros). Companies would therefore have to expect penalties of five million rubles (around 48,000 euros) if they did so. (pm)
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