The Big Picture: Preventing negative population growth rate in Russia

While some countries in East Asia may be concerned with overpopulation, Russia’s population trend has been in the negative for the past few decades. During the 1990s, the country’s population fell by 4% as a result of the economic crisis triggered by the collapse of the Soviet Union. Since then, demography has been a big issue for the Russian government, with several programs to boost the birth rate being introduced, including giving money to families on the birth of their second child and providing housing and land benefits to families of three children or more.

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[pipebomber]

"If there is love in the family, evrything else dont matter that much" - why cant people understand this????

[douglasw]

God bless this family. Follow their lead we need to have more kids fellow Europeans!

[wolfy]

Seems like a good mother. Hopefully more are like her

[angelbernal]

the more kids d merrier, keep on rockin.