“Russia saw birth rates drop dramatically in the turbulent 1990s and its demographic situation has remained negative, with more deaths than births, ever since. President Vladimir Putin last year urged Russians to have at least three children.  ‘We plan to close 733 schools this year,’ said the outspoken public health official Gennady Onishchenko, quoted by the Interfax news agency. ‘You understand the reason: there aren’t enough children.’ ‘For some reason we have forgotten why we came into the world and we came with only one aim: to create new life, to continue our line,’ said Onishchenko, who has three children.  A recent uptick in births is partly driven by a wave of immigrants.”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/08/14/russia-closes-700-schools-amid-dramatic-drop-in-birth-rates/

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