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Inside Europe: Boosting Russia's birthrate

Lucy Taylor
February 14, 2020

Russia is promising cash to new parents, to persuade families to have more babies and boost the struggling population. First-time parents will receive a one-off payment worth the equivalent of almost €7,000, with more for bigger families and people on low incomes. But the falling birth rate is not just down to finances, as Lucy Taylor reports from Moscow.

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