Russia has the second highest per capita rate of abortion in the WORLD behind only communist Vietnam. Putin has personally stolen $40 billion from the Russian people (average wage $500 per month). He lives in palaces secretly built for him while Russian muzhiks use squat toilets across the fruited Russian plains. What a patriot.
As even Russia-hating Forbes magazine admits, between 1992 and 2013, Russia’s abortion rate declined precipitously from 250 to 50 per 100 live births. http://www.forbes.com/sites/markadomanis/2015/02/04/russias-abortion-rate-has-fallen-dramatically/ Yes, it is still too high - one would be too much - but obviously Russian anti-abortion policies are having a huge impact.
The $40 billion figure is a lie. Even Russia-hating Bloomberg columnist Bershidsky admits that.
“The media reports, which often cite one another, ultimately tend to rely on one primary source: a November 2007 interviewgiven by a prominent member of Moscow’s chattering classes, Stanislav Belkovsky, to the German daily Die Welt. In the interview, he claimed that Putin “controlled” 37 percent of the oil company Surgutneftegaz and 4.5 percent of natural gas monopoly Gazprom. The $40 billion estimate of Putin’s fortune was simply the 2007 market price of these stakes.
“And these numbers are substantiated?” Die Welt journalist Manfred Quiring asked. “These numbers are correct,” Belkovsky replied, and that was that.
Interviewers regularly ask Belkovsky about the $40 billion number. “That figure could now have changed, I believe at the level of $60-70 billion,” Belkovsky toldMaeve McClenaghan of the Bureau of Investigative Journalism.
There has never been the slightest bit of evidence that Putin actually owns stakes in Surgutneftegaz or Gazprom. The Western journalists using Belkovsky as a source either do not know who he is or print his allegations simply because they are colorful. “What game Mr. Belkovsky is playing — and on whose behalf — is unclear,” the Telegraph of London warned in a story copiously citing Belkovsky’s allegations.” http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2013-09-17/vladimir-putin-the-richest-man-on-earth
Furthermore, Newsweek asked Forbes why Putin wasn’t on its billionaires list, the magazine replied: When asked about Putin, a spokeswoman for Forbes told Newsweek: “Vladimir Putin is not on the list because we have not been able to verify his ownership of assets worth $1 billion or more†and cited the methodology. http://www.newsweek.com/why-putin-isnt-forbes-billionaires-list-310818#big-shots/undefined/0
Putin lives in an apartment in the Kremlin, by the way, where he is entitled to reside as President of Russia.