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Russia's President Wants to Turn Around Population Decline
http://www.voanews.com/english/news/europe/Russias-President-Wants-to-Turn-Around-Population-Decline-111062294.html ^

Posted on 11/30/2010 2:02:49 PM PST by kronos77

Russia's president devoted the largest part of his annual State of Russia speech to reversing Russia's population decline.

If Russian couples have a third child, they will get a baby bonus, better health care, and free land to build a house or dacha, Russian President Dmitri Medvedev promised in his annual State of Russia speech.

Political analysts were hoping to hear about missiles or democracy. Instead they got babies.

Twenty years ago, just before the collapse of the Soviet Union, the Kremlin ruled an empire with a population slightly larger than that of the United States. Today, Russia has less than half the population of the United States.

And Russia's population of 142 million people is aging fast, a sign of bigger drops ahead, President Medvedev said.

The president said Russians will have to increase birth rates to overcome the demographic ax blow of the 1990s. Due to the post-communist economic collapse, there may not be enough fertile age women for Russia to maintain its population size. Mr. Medvedev, the father of one child, said two will not do. It must be three.

Mr. Medvedev also called for a Russia without orphanages. He said Russian families should adopt Russian children.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Russia
KEYWORDS: babies; birthrate; russia; sourcetitlenoturl
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1 posted on 11/30/2010 2:02:52 PM PST by kronos77
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To: kronos77

All by himself?


2 posted on 11/30/2010 2:03:22 PM PST by swain_forkbeard (Rationality may not be sufficient, but it is necessary.)
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To: swain_forkbeard

Its dirty work, but....


3 posted on 11/30/2010 2:04:01 PM PST by kronos77 (Kosovo is Serbian Jerusalem. No Serbia without Kosovo.)
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To: kronos77
Mr. Medvedev, the father of one child, said two will not do. It must be three.
That's rich.
4 posted on 11/30/2010 2:06:03 PM PST by samtheman
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To: swain_forkbeard

It will sure help him look more manly than Putin.


5 posted on 11/30/2010 2:06:24 PM PST by El Sordo (The bigger the government, the smaller the citizen.)
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To: kronos77

Hey, why don’t we send a whole bunch of folks to Russia! For example, much of the populations of Detroit, Oakland, Chicago, Trenton, St. Louis, Baltimore, Columbus.....


6 posted on 11/30/2010 2:08:40 PM PST by Oldpuppymax
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To: kronos77

Why don’t they just outlaw abortion?


7 posted on 11/30/2010 2:08:54 PM PST by huldah1776
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To: kronos77

Due to the post-communist economic collapse, there may not be enough fertile age women for Russia to maintain its population size.

They all became Mail Order Brides in New Jersey..


8 posted on 11/30/2010 2:09:27 PM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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To: kronos77

We’ve got some Mexicans that can do that work!


9 posted on 11/30/2010 2:09:53 PM PST by Twotone (Marte Et Clypeo)
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To: huldah1776

I did see anti-abortion billboards in Moscow and I suspect they were government sponsored.


10 posted on 11/30/2010 2:10:25 PM PST by Monterrosa-24 (...even more American than a French bikini and a Russian AK-47.)
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To: kronos77

Clarion call to Bill Clinton


11 posted on 11/30/2010 2:11:07 PM PST by WestwardHo (Whom the gods would destroy, they first drive mad.)
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To: huldah1776

right


12 posted on 11/30/2010 2:11:19 PM PST by GeronL (http://libertyfic.proboards.com <--- My Fiction/ Science Fiction Board)
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“Mr. Medvedev also called for a Russia without orphanages. He said Russian families should adopt Russian children.”

Fine words. Why doesn’t Medvedev go first and set an example. Meanwhile millions of kids languish in institutions as despised outcasts of inferior parentage (in the Russian mind). And nationalists like Medvedev huff and puff and stall on letting foreigners adopt them.

In fact Medvedev- let’s see you adopt a child of mixed race from your country’s orphanage system.

(crickets)


13 posted on 11/30/2010 2:12:23 PM PST by silverleaf (All that is necessary for evil to succeed, is that good men do nothing)
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To: kronos77

Maybe they can adopt female Chinese babies.


14 posted on 11/30/2010 2:12:36 PM PST by CrazyIvan (What's "My Struggle" in Kenyan?)
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To: huldah1776

It dosent work that way. State should put fundings, education and make people want to have babies, larger families. Outlawing abortion is just part of the job.


15 posted on 11/30/2010 2:13:46 PM PST by kronos77 (Kosovo is Serbian Jerusalem. No Serbia without Kosovo.)
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Great - The planet needs more alcoholic Russians.
16 posted on 11/30/2010 2:16:30 PM PST by muleskinner
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Don't even think about it Boris.

But Natasha, Vlad says it's our patriotic duty!

17 posted on 11/30/2010 2:23:11 PM PST by colorado tanker
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To: kronos77

Allow immigrants from Islamic countries. The population will explode. Oh, wait.


18 posted on 11/30/2010 2:25:53 PM PST by lurk
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I believe Russia is not only facing a declining population but an increasing percent of Muslims in that declining population.


19 posted on 11/30/2010 2:26:05 PM PST by Presbyterian Reporter
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More vodka?

Who knew Russia had the same size population as Mexico.

If they hadn’t killed so many of them off in the last century...


20 posted on 11/30/2010 2:26:38 PM PST by <1/1,000,000th%
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