Russia, Putin and Demography.

By Rafael C. Gomes

Since the fall of the ill-fated Soviet Union, Russia have suffered a large population drop by the high tax of deaths and the dropping fertility rate of the population, resulting in a demographics crisis who was threatening the Russian economy.
Several factors contributed for this fall, the dropping of the life standards after the Soviet Union fall, because the economy shrinked and so the quality of life, but, together with that is the low moral standards of a communist society, and it's main aspect, Abortion, the Abortion rates are high in Russia, even today, and makes up a big part of it´s demographic drop, more than a million of children are killed in their mothers wombs in Russia, but this number is falling since the Putin goverment started.
In 2012 the Demographic plunge in Russia has reverted and they had a small, but, a growth in Population, thanks for the rising of the birth rate and falling of the death rate, and one of the main aspects of this reversion is the falling number of the abortion rate in Russia, some sources say that in the last year 300 thousands abortions were avoided, this because of the goverment efforts to make abortion low and revert the abortion laws of Russia (who recently make abortion more restrict, from a "free for all" to a 12-week limit abortion law, walking towards a future prohibition), so we see that Russia is making what the western world not, trying and winning the fight against the abortion cancer.
But let's see the demographics, in 2011 the Russian Population accounted 142,960,908 people, in 2012, the population have gone to 143,213,095 people, in a 300000 growth, and the abortion rates in 2011 was 1,124,880, and in 2012 was 1,070,980, still a enormous number, but less than the last year, and if we take the number from the Putin take of office, 2000, it was in 2,138,800, so you see that the number of abortions was cut in half, by the economic growth of Russia and the pro-life Russian goverment policies.
We see some news today attacking Russia goverment for being "anachronic", "homophobic" and so, but it's only to attack one of the few countries in the world that the goverment defend the moral, the christian moral, and strives to defend fellow christians from persecutions.
It's not a perfect goverment, corruption is rampant, abortion is still legal even with this drops on the numbers, still allied with the abortionist christian persecutioning Communist China and some other problems, but, the tendency shows that Putin Tries to put Russia in the Right side, so, let's pray that his goverment keep going right and take the needed steps to the right side.

Sources.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Russia#Population_statistics
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abortion_in_Russia#Recent_efforts