Well, that's one way of trying to address the problem, but 'more sex' is not the solution as long as the abortion rate is high in Russia, which it has been for many decades.
''Since Putin first came to power in 2000 the population has decreased by 2.5 million Russians so the Prime Minister has made increasing the country's birth rate through Government incentives one of his key election pledges.
He vowed to offer more free kindergarten places, cheaper housing, and a £140 a month benefit bonus to mothers who have a third child, in a bid to boost the population size to 154 million people.''
I assume that the numbers quote reflect the population of actual Russian people, that is, people of Russian descent, Russian ethnicity, rather than just warm bodies of any origin inhabiting Russian territory.
I wondered how many people -- Russian people, that is -- are leaving Russia every year. I reasoned that the numbers must be pretty large, considering the large populations of Russians who live in certain parts of this country (not just Brighton Beach, Brooklyn, aka Little Odessa).
According to this webpage, migration out of Russia since 1989 has been only 1.1 million.
That seems to be an undercount, considering the great numbers of Russians who are established in various Western countries.
I have to wonder if the numbers are inaccurate. I do realize a great many of those who are considered 'Russian' in our country are Ukrainian or some related people, and also a great many are actually Jewish -- which was considered a separate ethnicity in the old Soviet Union. Certainly there seem to be more migrants from Russia than those numbers indicate.
Why is there no effort seemingly aimed at keeping Russian citizens at home, rather than seeing them off to the United States, Canada, or wherever else they settle? Can it be that, as with the Third World countries, it's in the interests of the governments to have their citizens emigrate and send home 'remittances' extracted from our economy?
Remittances, too, are generally acknowledged to encourage 'chain migration' as they finance the emigration of remaining family members to the 'magnet' countries.
Russia, according to the statistics provided on the linked website, is a magnet country itself for certain Third World countries, while its own people migrate elsewhere, hence the decline in overall population despite immigration.
Russia seems to be a popular place for Western men to find 'mail-order brides', despite the known problems associated with that business.
If Putin and his government are serious about increasing the birth rate of the ethnic Russian people, they should address the problem of out-migration, and the practice of Russian women seeking men outside the country. In order to increase the population of Russian people, both Russian men and women are needed. The old cliche that a country's real resources are its people is a true one. Russian women should not be encouraged to seek greener (in more senses than one) pastures abroad. This does not benefit Russia or the Russian people.
Though many of those who identify as pro-White think it's fine for any and all White peoples to intermarry and/or emigrate where they will, it simply adds to the globalizing and deracinating trend for people to cross boundaries of culture and nationality; just having the same or similar skin tone is not enough to mix and match -- at least not for anyone who is a real ethnonationalist or a lover of his own kin and kind. As is often pointed out in other contexts, it isn't 'just about skin color', and above all, people are not interchangeable. If we are, then we should just embrace globalization, multiculturalism, and 'propositional nations' , because ethnicity is meaningless; only broad racial categories matter.
Meantime, is Putin a real ethnonationalist? He speaks out of both sides of his mouth, occasionally sounding very nationalistic while later advocating tolerance and multiculturalism, and easing curbs on immigration as he has done.
But a real nationalist would recognize the unique qualities and value of their own people, and would not want to see the distinctions blurred away.
