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Russian demography has long been an existential issue to Vladimir Putin. In 2021, he declared “saving the people of Russia is our top national priority".<ref>[https://fortune.com/2022/10/18/russia-population-historic-decline-emigration-war-plunging-birth-rate-form-perfect-storm/ Russia’s population is in a historic decline as emigration, war and a plunging birth rate form a ‘perfect storm’], Fortune magazine, 2022</ref>

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Bne IntelliNews indicated in 2022:

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{{Cquote|Between 1993 and 2008, Russia’s population saw a considerable decline in its population from 148.37mn to 143.25. However, after Russian President Vladimir Putin took over in 2000 he put demographics at the top of the agenda and launched a comprehensive reform to boost the population, as featured by bne IntelliNews in “Putin’s babies”. The fruits of these reforms began to appear in around 2008 when the population began growing again...

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The population increased again to 145.9mn recently; however, the population was expected to peak at the end of 2020 and is projected to start declining again...

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These problems were already very visible at the end of the 1990s, when demographers became increasingly alarmed at where Russia was heading.<ref name="IntelliNews"/>}}

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