It ceased to exist after the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991. The title of "Mother-heroine" was restored in Russia by Vladimir Putin, who thus revives a tradition of distinguishing women with ten or more children. , according to a presidential decree published on Monday.
Medni Kadyrova, the wife of Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov whose family has 14 children according to the official website of the Chechen presidency, became one of the first two Russian women to be awarded this title.
The second distinguished woman is Olga Dekhtiarenko, from the Yamal Peninsula, located north of the Arctic Circle.
His family, which raises ten children, won the national "Family of the Year" competition in 2020, according to local media.
One million rubles donated to “Mothers-heroines”
Nostalgic for the Soviet era, Vladimir Putin restored the title of “Mother-heroine” last August.
This title was first awarded in the USSR in October 1944 and was intended to encourage birth rates, when millions of Soviets had been killed in World War II.
While Russia has been facing a new demographic crisis for years, which has worsened with the Covid-19 pandemic and the start of the Russian offensive in Ukraine, Vladimir Putin has decided to restore this title by ordering the payment of one million rubles (approximately 16,200 euros) to women honored as “Mother-heroines”.
According to preliminary results of the population census published by the Russian Statistical Agency (Rosstat), about 147 million people lived in Russia in October-November 2021, one million less than in 1992, after the fall of the USSR.
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