This has nothing to do with demographics, and everything to do with revenge. We have Russian kids in our family who were not adopted, rescued from Russia where they were raped, neglected, and otherwise abused. After my sister paid the judge off with the obligatory American liquor and American cash they demand, he asked my sister, “You have plenty of children. Why do you want these broken children?”
Putin is a bad man. The orphans there are treated worse than what they would be if adopted. Russia has a 50+% abortion rate, what makes you think they give a rip about a few “broken” orphans?
I don’t think he cares, but I do think he wants to hold onto as much of the Russian population as he can. Doesn’t make much sense, but then, I think Putin is a little loony.