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Russia revives Soviet era ‘Mother Heroine’ award to encourage population growth

18 August 2022

The “pronatalist” campaign is “obviously a conscious echo of the Stalinist past [but] I don’t see contemporary young Russian women really responding to the call. They have other things on their mind,” said Dr Kristin Roth-Ey (UCL School of Slavonic & East European Studies).

Read: Washington Post (£), More: Express