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'Big is Beautiful' catchword of Russian Govt to check population decline | | "Big is Beautiful" seems to be the new catchword of the Russian Government that is struggling hard to overcome their scanty population, which will go down
to 111 million by 2050 from 141 million at present. Russia's population peaked
in the early 1990s (at the time of the end of the Soviet Union) with about 148
million people in the country. The United States Census Bureau estimates that
Russia's population will decline from the current 143 million to a mere 111 million
by 2050, a loss of more than 30 million people and a decrease of more than 20
percent. The primary causes of Russia's population decrease and loss of about
7-8 lakh people each year are due to a high death rate, low birth rate, high rate
of abortions, and a low level of immigration. To boost the psyche of having more
and more children, the government here has unravelled an all out programme to
convince the young couples to have more and more kids. Hoardings with slogans
written on it like "Big is Beautiful" have been put all around the city. Besides
this the government has decided to give Rs.5 lakh to those young people who keep
on increasing their family size. Not only this, the enterprising couples are called
in the coveted Kremlin Palace where the Russian President himself gives medal
to kids-producing couples. For every kid, the couple is given one medal. Besides,
the couple having more than six-seven kids is given all sorts of facilities and
preferences in government jobs. After the disintegration of USSR, the sense of
insecurity enveloped the middle class and this compelled the couple to keep their
family size within the financial capacity of the family. The declining economy
and shrinking job opportunities have also proved detrimental in increasing the
size of their family by Russians. One senior journalist said: "The migration from
rural areas has also reached an all time high. Rural people who came to urban
areas in search of job had also to follow the same rule contrary to the age-old
belief of to have a comparatively bigger family." At present the total population
of Russia is 14.1 crore which by all means is very low. And the government has
decided to take all steps to convince people to increase their family size and
rest all requirements will be taken care by the government.
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