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The president ordered federal organizations and other administrative structures to reinforce efforts aimed at creating conditions for a sustained increase in demographic indicators until 2025.
Government institutions at all levels will have to follow regulations contained in the Demographic Policy Conception to carry out tasks in the area of population, says a Kremlin press release.
As Putin ordered, the government of prime minister Victor Zubkov has three-months dateline to adopt the package of measures which will establish the population strategy of the Russian Federation from 2008 to 2010.
The Russian executive must immediately direct this policy to a reduction of the high mortality rate and, as a counterpart, achieve a stable increase of the birth indicator.
Other challenges deal with the improvement of health indicators, from the early ages until those above 60, and strengthen family ties as a key factor to stimulate reproduction and the socialization process.
The conception focuses on the critical demographical situation, distributed in three stages until 2025, according to the decree signed by Putin.
According to extraofficial data, the correlation between mortality and birth rates in Russia, at the closing of the first semester of 2007 was 330 thousand persons less, considered a record figure in spite of optimism in the government due to a slight increase in births.
A United Nations report indicates the largest country on Earth will suffer a reduction of 30 million people by 2050.
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