Photo: RIA Novosti In Russia — the decline in the birth rate. Only for the first four months of the year the country was born at 68 thousand 700 children less than in the same period of 2016. Vladimir Putin is concerned about this decline. The Russian President did not rule out improvement of the system of social benefits for families with children. The head of the Russian state said at a meeting on social issues that the President convened in the first half of the 19th June, reports “Interfax”. Putin explained that the catastrophic decline in the birth rate during the great Patriotic war led to the decline in the number of those born at the turn of the 1970-ies. Putin stressed that now in the age of childbearing has entered a reduced generation difficult 1990s years. Thanks to the support measures to the Russian authorities managed for a
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