Out of curiosity I looked it up. Here’s what I got:
Now I’m starting to think I set my search engine’s safety filter too high.
Posted on 07/28/2025 8:34:20 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
Russia has established a new group of officials, described as a “demographic special forces unit," in response to a catastrophic decline in birth rates across the country, the RBC business daily reported Thursday.
The measure was announced during a press conference by upper-house Federation Council head Valentina Matviyenko.
According to Matviyenko, the creation of the group makes family issues a top priority for the government.
“Today, any regional government agency can give you the name of the deputy minister responsible for demographics. A special demographic task force has been created. We can hope that we will return to our traditional values,” she said.
The group’s formation is in line with previous efforts to address Russia's deepening demographic crisis.
Despite extensive promotional campaigns encouraging larger families, public appeals from officials and Russian President Vladimir Putin and restrictions on abortion access, Russia has not succeeded in reversing its demographic decline.
Data from the first quarter of 2025 reveals that births decreased by 4% year-on-year, with only 288,800 recorded.
The annual figures are equally alarming: in 2024, just 1.2 million children were born — the smallest annual total since 1999, and 3.4% lower than in 2023.
In an apparent attempt to control public perception of the crisis, authorities have restricted access to detailed demographic statistics, as well as overall population data for Russia.
(Excerpt) Read more at themoscowtimes.com ...
Nice to see a country willing to ACKNOWLEDGE the problem, rather than simply choose to replace their native populations with whoever shows up on their borders.
How do you say “Lebensborn” in po russki?
If they invaded and took over Bangladesh, they would slightly more than double their population. They’d have more people than taking over Ukraine.
I thinks it’s too late to reverse the decline at this point. Certainly not for their Ukraine war.
I imagine they WON’T go the route of Western Europe and import a lot of Africans.
And Western European countries are complaining there aren’t enough native tax payers to fund the luxurious welfare handouts to the ‘new’ Europeans
” Demographic Special Forces Unit”
I’m trying to picture their unit insignia.
There going to have to fight the Tactical Women’s Alert Team.
They could invite a Muslim invasion like Europe has done.
Out of curiosity I looked it up. Here’s what I got:
Now I’m starting to think I set my search engine’s safety filter too high.
Ukraine
“I imagine they WON’T go the route of Western Europe and import a lot of Africans.”
So far, no culture has recovered from birthrates as low as Russia’s. Basically, they will empty their country out over the next few decades and other people will move in.
Ironically, the Han Chinese, who claim a lot of Siberia, would be the ones who move in except they have an even worse birthrate decline.
Whichever culture crashes their birthrate the last will end up dominating Europe, Asia and Africa.
I think Yemen has the highest birthrate in the world. So the future of Eurasia is Houthi :)
How about flying 11 million mexicans over there?
A really simple way to improve the birth rate would be to stop sending the male half of the equation to a retarded, ridiculous little war that has no real motivation other then “must get Ookraine oil back, along with Ookraine wimmens” and stop spending all the money on half assed 1970s weapons when it could be spent improving lifestyles in the many second and third world cities outside of the two marquee cities in the country where there is some semblance of standard Western European living standards.
That might go along way towards seeing many more Sashas and Yulias on the playgrounds.
But don’t tell BadVlad and his nefarious henchmen Lavrov and Medvedev while they do their Snidely Whiplash and Boris Badenoff imitations.
“Data from the first quarter of 2025 reveals that births decreased by 4% year-on-year...”
That’s not a trend, that’s a path to extinction.
I volunteer!!!!
spin up some Boys-2-Men again
Russia could stop killing off a generation of men in an idiotic war.
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