During his annual address to the Federal Assembly, Russia’s parliament, President Vladimir Putin cited the need to reverse Russia’s negative demographic trend, which has been worsening in recent years. This negative trend, he said, was reversed “at the beginning of the 2000s.”
Polygraph: Putin exaggerates his role in improving Russia’s population growth
Russian President Vladimir Putin delivers his annual state of the nation address in Moscow on Feb. 20, 2019.
