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Prime Minister Vladimir Putin Monday vowed to reverse Russia’s demographic decline and boost its population to 154 million, as he ramped up his reelection campaign in the face of protests.
In a new campaign article addressing his core constituency including employees of state companies and blue-collar workers, Putin also promised salary hikes to teachers and doctors and pledged to create a more just state.
Putin reeled off a list of social policies that he said could reverse a demographic decline and boost Russia’s current population that has now dwindled to almost 143 million.
“In a global sense we are facing the risk of turning into an ‘empty space’ whose fate will not be decided by us,” Putin said in an article published on his campaign website and mass circulation newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda.
“If we manage to formulate and implement an effective complex people-saving strategy, Russia’s population will go up to 154 million.”
“The historic price of the choice between action and inaction is nearly 50 million human lives over the next 40 years,” he said in the piece, his fifth campaign article since January.
In a new campaign article addressing his core constituency including employees of state companies and blue-collar workers, Putin also promised salary hikes to teachers and doctors and pledged to create a more just state.
Putin reeled off a list of social policies that he said could reverse a demographic decline and boost Russia’s current population that has now dwindled to almost 143 million.
“In a global sense we are facing the risk of turning into an ‘empty space’ whose fate will not be decided by us,” Putin said in an article published on his campaign website and mass circulation newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda.
“If we manage to formulate and implement an effective complex people-saving strategy, Russia’s population will go up to 154 million.”
“The historic price of the choice between action and inaction is nearly 50 million human lives over the next 40 years,” he said in the piece, his fifth campaign article since January.
