The Russian government has introduced additional financial incentives
to families who have more than two children in terms of a new 12-year
plan designed to boost that nation’s population.
The new measures, brought in after the previous set of regulations
boosted the Russian birthrate to 1.9 million in 2012, up from 1.2
million in 1992, will give bonuses to families that have more than two
children and will provide better healthcare, housing, and education for
families.
In addition, the government will institute financial penalties in the
form of additional taxes for divorces, and minimum compulsory alimony
rates have been set, regardless of income levels. Abortion has been
strongly discouraged and is now increasingly difficult to obtain.
Minimum levels of child support payments have also been ordered,
irrespective of income levels.
Finally, measures have been taken to strictly limit the propagation
of homosexuality in Russian. Sergei Ivanov, the Kremlin’s chief of
staff, has commissioned a new set of public artworks promoting
“traditional moral and spiritual family values” and the Duma has passed a
bill banning “propaganda of non-traditional sexual relations” by an
overwhelming vote of 436-0.
The city of Moscow has officially outlawed all homosexual
demonstrations for the next 100 years, provoking a furious reaction from
the European Human Rights Court which said that the ban was “illegal.”
Several attempts by homosexual extremists to parade in public in
defiance of the ban have ended in arrests and criminal charges under the
ruling.
There are also efforts underway to combat alcohol abuse, which is
still a serious issue in Russia. In 2010, then President Dmitry
Medvedev nearly doubled the minimum price of a bottle of vodka in an
effort to combat the problem.
According to the 2010 census, what they call “ethnic Russians” (and
what others would call Europeans) people make up 81 percent of the total
population of 143,400,000.
Ukrainians make up 1.4 percent of the population.
In addition, the following groups, all of which have a substantial
European makeup and a small mixed-racial element, have populations in
excess of one million: Tatars (3.9 percent of the total), Bashkirs (1.1
percent), Chuvash (1 percent), Chechens (1 percent), and Armenians (0.9
percent).
The population is most dense in the European part of the country,
centered around Moscow and Saint Petersburg. 74% of the population is
urban.
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Love them or hate them, the Ruskies sure know a thing or two about ethnics and how to prevent them getting a foothold, good on them. European Union take heed...
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