Vladimir Putin vows to reverse Russian population decline

[Aragorn]

Vladimir Putin vows to reverse Russian population decline

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin on Monday vowed to reverse Russia's demographic decline and boost its population to 154 million, as he ramped up his re-election campaign in the face of protests.


In a new campaign article addressing his core constituency including employees of state companies and blue-collar workers, Putin also promised salary hikes to teachers and doctors and pledged to create a more just state.


Putin reeled off a list of social policies that he said could reverse a demographic decline and boost Russia's current population that has now dwindled to nearly 143 million and which he said risked falling to just 107 million.


"In a global sense we are facing the risk of turning into an 'empty space' whose fate will not be decided by us," Putin said in an article published on his campaign website.


"If we manage to formulate and implement an effective complex people-saving strategy, Russia's population will go up to 154 million," he said.


By contrast, he said, if the authorities do nothing to combat the demographic crisis, the country's population would fall to 107 million by 2050.

More:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worl...n-decline.html

[Mikemikev]

Putin is an example to all white nations.

[Gaear Grimsrud]

Originally Posted by Mikemikev

Putin is an example to all white nations.

Yes, an example of a wolf in sheep's clothing. He's no better than Boris Yeltsin or any other insincere kleptocrat involved in their government now.

[Petr]

Originally Posted by Gaear Grimsrud

Yes, an example of a wolf in sheep's clothing. He's no better than Boris Yeltsin or any other insincere kleptocrat involved in their government now.

It's cheap and easy to just sit by and criticize what others are doing. Before his death, Alexander Solzhenitsyn opined that Putin had done about as good work as conditions would allow - politics after all being "the art of possible" (if you like absolute purity, take up theology instead):

http://www.boston.com/news/world/eur...putins_russia/

"Putin inherited a ransacked and bewildered country, with a poor and demoralized people," Solzhenitsyn told the German magazine Der Spiegel in a 2007 interview, when Putin was still president. "And he started to do what was possible, a slow and gradual restoration. These efforts were not noticed, nor appreciated, immediately. In any case, one is hard-pressed to find examples in history when steps by one country to restore its strength were met favorably by other governments."

[Ambrosio Spinola]

As long as he does not mean making Russia more vibrant, I can only applaud.

[Milesian]

Putin must hates our freedumb.
Free sterilisation for college students!

[Charlie Robespierre]

The Russian population decline being so insoluble Putin isn't great on mass-immigration. That said, when the homosexual industry makes a street appearance, the police truncheons come out.