Pregnant schoolgirls will be eligible for a £ 1,000 cash payment under a 'crazy' schedule drawn up by allies of Vladimir Putin to increase the Russian birth rate.
Girls so young as 16 who are more than 12 weeks pregnant will now be eligible for the state payment in the context of a scheme that has been governed in the Oyol region, who has seen a population recording of nearly 8,000 people.
There is no minimum age to receive the payment of 100,000 rubles, equal to around £ 914, under the policy, although the age of permission in Russia is 16.
A TV program that was previously named pregnant at the age of 16 -intended to discourage teenage pregnancies -is at the age of 16 -reversed as a mom, aimed at emphasizing the 'beauty of motherhood'.
But the schedule, signed by Putin-Loyalist governor Andrey Klychkov, has received criticism from Russian parliamentarians and state media.
Nina Ostanina, head of the family committee in the Russian parliament, made the attempt to 'encourage children to become parents' school'.
TV host Oskar Kuchera noticed the new one-off payment initiative 'Ridiculous' and 'Nonsense'.
Demograph Alexey Raksha warned: 'The counterproductive desire to' rejuvenate 'the birth rate in the provinces leads to absurd decisions. We have never seen such an idiocy. '
There is no minimum age to receive the payment of 100,000 rubles, equal to around £ 914, under the policy
A TV program that was previously mentioned pregnant at the age of 16 -meant to discourage teenage pregnancies -is at the age of 16 -reversed as a mum, aimed at emphasizing the 'beauty of motherhood'
Nina Ostanina, head of the family committee in the Russian Parliament, made the attempt to 'encourage children to become parents at school'
The birth rate of Russia collapsed into a record low in this century, with only 599,600 children born in the first six months of 2024.
In the same period, the decline in the Russian population accelerated by 18 percent, with 49,000 more deaths in 2024 than the year before, probably because of the front line victims in the war with Ukraine.
The current Russian birth rate is 1.5 children per woman, much less than the 2.1 needed to preserve a population.
Klychkov said that 'everyone was very interested' in the legislation and predicted that other regions would follow.
Similar schemes have been adopted in almost a dozen Russian regions, although the recipients must be between 18 and 23 years old.
Different areas offer different levels of compensation – for a firstborn in the city of Chelyabinsk, it can go up to £ 8,500.
Attempts to supplement the falling population of Russia have fueled various inventive ideas from both the Kremlin and the Russian state of Duma.
In 2023, parliamentarian Valery Seleznyov reportedly proposed to release women who have been convicted of small charges of prisons so that they can become pregnant.
Klychkov said that 'everyone was very interested' in the legislation and predicted that other regions would follow
The birth rate of Russia collapsed into a record low in this century, with only 599,600 children born in the first six months of 2024
The birth rate of Russia collapsed into a record low in this century, with only 599,600 children born in the first six months of 2024
Similar schemes have been adopted in almost a dozen Russian regions, although the recipients have to be between 18 and 23 years old
Those who succeed in getting a child successful must also have the rest of their sentences cancel, he said.
A year earlier, Putin introduced the 20th-century mother Heroin Award, who honors women who have 10 or more children with a one-off payment of a million rubles, equal to £ 9,180.
And it was not until last year that the Russian state of Duma heard legislation for proposing a harsh action against companies and persons accused of insisting on 'child -free' propaganda.
Vyacheslav Volodin, the chairman of the state of Duma, said that groups and communities on social networks 'often show a lack of respect for motherhood and paternity' and that the 'child -free movement' devalues the establishment of the family, which is the 'basis of a strong state'.
Tatiana Butskaya, a member of parliament for the Russian ruling party in the parliamentary family protection committee, said Sky News: 'This [propaganda] is an ideology against life on earth.
'If [our parents] Had to adhere to this ideology, none of us would be at this press conference today. Maybe it would have been other people here, and maybe even robots. '
