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‘March for Russia’ Protests Against Abortion in Face of Plummeting Population : 7th Nov 08
On November 4th, a coalition of organisations marched through the streets of Moscow to protest against abortion in Russia, according to the Russian news organization Pravda. The march comes in response to a plummeting Russian population.
Due to a sky-high abortion rate, which in recent years has stood at around 13 abortions for every 10 live births, the Russian population is plummeting. It has fallen from 149 million in 1992 to 142 million in 2007, and commonly cited estimates indicate that if trends continue the population will fall to 100 million by 2050.
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has called the collapse of Russia's population ""the most acute problem facing our country today", and said that the population has been falling by 700,000 people annually for several years. LifeSite.
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