President Vladimir Putin has appealed to Russian women to have "seven, eight, or more" children to reverse population decline.
The birth rate in the vast nation of 143.4 million people has significantly decreased recently. President's disastrous invasion of Ukraine is blamed for preventing more people from having children And with more than 100,000 soldiers estimated to have died since the fighting began in February last year, he is now calling on Russians to return to the tsarist era, when large families were more common.
Putin himself is believed to have at least six children with three different partners, although he has publicly acknowledged only two of his daughters. In a controversial new video, he tells Russians to have more children and promises they will receive government support for "becoming mothers."
"Thank God, many of our people have strong multigenerational family traditions and are raising four, five or more children," Putin said. Recall that many grandmothers and great-grandmothers in Russian families had seven, eight or more children.
Let's preserve and revive this wonderful tradition. Having many children and a large family should be the norm and a way of life for all Russian people. The family is not only the basis of the state and society, but also a spiritual phenomenon and a source of morality.
” He went on, saying, "Family, maternity, and childhood support encompasses all areas of government efforts 'without exception,' including health, education, and other areas where the principle applies, as well as economic, social, and infrastructure policy.
It should be covered," he added. His plea comes as Russia's population fell by 555,000 people in the first year of Putin's war, with many families now struggling to start families as more men are sent to the front. I'm nervous about increasing it.
Demographers say Russia's economic collapse is also discouraging families from having children. Currently, the average number of children per woman is 1.42, far below the replacement rate of 2.1 children. Some parts of his country also ban abortions in private clinics, making them more difficult to obtain.
It is known that President Putin, 71, has two daughters with his first wife, former Russian first lady Lyudmila Putina, 65. Maria Vorontsova, 38, a geneticist and dwarfism expert, is a lead researcher at the Russian Ministry of Health's National Endocrine Medical Research Center, and Katerina Tikhonova, a long-legged "rock'n'roll" dancer and mathematician, 37, is the executive director of the National Foundation.
For the intellectual development of Russia. Louisa Rozova, better known as Elizaveta Krivonogikh, is his 20-year-old daughter.
According to Russian investigative journalists, he is believed to have had a long-term affair with Svetlana Krivonogikh, a 48-year-old Parisian student and billionaire cleaning lady.
Putin is said to have three young children with his current partner, Alina Kabaeva, 40, a former Olympic gold medalist and rhythmic gymnast. There is also unconfirmed speculation that he fathered a son while stationed in East Germany as a Soviet KGB spy.
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