You have read Mark Steyn? How noone gets back after a certain birth rate?
It does seem like the Russians are doing just that.
And, partly thanks to government contributions.
If the socialism in Norway and Sweden has done any good thing. It has encouraged children, and child bearing.
Need new serfs or whatnot.
You say that, but you have a 1.88 birthrate (sub-replacement) as of the latest stats. I don't know if Russia has yet achieved a replacement level, either, and their overall life expectancy may not have bottomed out, either.