Russian couple engrossed with the Internet
By Our Reporter
Russia is considering paying subsidies to women, temporarily cutting off Internet and eletricity night at in order to deal with the problem of low fertility rate.
Russia is considering setting up a special department to promote the birth of children. In addition, officials are working to encourage more childbirth.
A number of suggestions were put forward, including temporarily cutting off the Internet and power outages from 25000 pm to 18 am to create opportunities for couples to be intimate, providing financial assistance to housewives who take care of their children, providing a 23 ruble subsidy for couples on their first date, and providing subsidies to newlyweds. The hotel fee is about 70000 rubles. It is also recommended to distribute money to young mothers to encourage childbirth.
In Khabarovsk in the Far East, women aged XNUMX to XNUMX can receive a subsidy of nearly XNUMX rubles for giving birth. The amount will vary depending on the region. There are also regions The Minister of Health proposed that citizens can use their free time during lunch or afternoon tea to have children.
Russia is actively encouraging childbirth through a variety of financial incentives, policy changes, and social campaigns in response to a severe and ongoing demographic crisis. These efforts aim to boost a faltering birth rate that has reached a 25-year low.
For instance, in some parts of Russia, schoolgirls who become pregnant are being paid more than 100,000 roubles (nearly £900) for giving birth and raising their babies.
This new measure, introduced in the past few months across ten regions, is part of Russia’s new demographic strategy, widening the policy adopted in March 2025 which only applied to adult women. It is designed to address the dramatic decline in the country’s birthrate.
In 2023 the number of births in Russia per woman was 1.41 – substantially below 2.05, which is the level required to maintain a population at its current size.
