“It was about service to the motherland,” Kristin Roth-Ey, an expert on Slavonic and East European Studies, said via the Washington Post. “(It is) obviously a conscious echo of the Stalinist past.”…
Russian President Vladimir Putin has offered Russian mothers an extraordinary cash bonus if they have 10 or more children, reviving a Soviet-era incentive as the nation of 145 million plans for the future.
Mothers will only be eligible for the significant bonus — which is more than the average Russian yearly salary of roughly 750,000 rubles — if all other nine children have survived. Putin on Tuesday accused Washington of seeking to prolong the conflict in Ukraine and of fuelling conflicts elsewhere in the world, including with the visit of US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to Taiwan.
Pummelled by a barrage of unprecedented Western sanctions, Putin has sought to bolster ties with countries in Africa and Asia, especially with China. The document, which was reportedly sent to Western intelligence officials, partially identified the unnamed Kremlin insider as “one of the pillars of the regime”.They are thought to have reached out via either a Western diplomat or a CIA officer.
“It is urgent to allow the inspection by the International Atomic Energy Agency and to ensure the withdrawal of all Russian forces,” NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg said Wednesday.
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