Russian President Vladimir Putin has revived a Soviet-era award for women with 10 or more children as Russia grapples with a demographic crisis exacerbated by the war in Ukraine. received the award before it was abolished in 1991 after the collapse of the Soviet Union.
And under Putin’s decree, she will receive one million rubles, which is equivalent to $16,000, and a lump sum for everyone whose tenth child reaches their first birthday, provided that the remaining nine children survive, and they also receive gold medals for the heroine’s mother decorated with Russian flag and state emblem. .
Earlier, Putin also announced that recipients of the Parental Glory Award, or Parental Glory, which he established in 2008 for families with 7 or more children, will receive additional payments of up to 700,000 rubles, equivalent to $11,460, this step comes after the warning of the state statistics service In Russia, the population from 144 million people may be reduced to 132 million in the next two decades.