The State Duma proposed dividing Russians: maternity capital – not for everyone at once

Pay for the first or second

The head of the SR Sergei Mironov and his fellow party members introduced a bill to the State Duma to issue maternity capital only 5 years after receiving Russian citizenship. But what about compliance with the Constitution, which does not stipulate this kind of segregation of citizens of the Russian Federation?

It is clear that these restrictions are proposed to be extended to migrants from neighboring countries who have received Russian citizenship. And in general, they no longer have any special preferences for wanting to become Russians.

Alas, the process of naturalization of those who have come in large numbers is gradually fading away. At the same time, the birth rate still leaves much to be desired.

The well-known demographer Alexey Raksha states that this year the number of births is 3% less (the worst months were June and July, -7-8%),” Raksha sums up.

As for the issuance of maternity capital, at one time this measure brought about 2.5 million additional births. But now it has practically stopped working and is only a pleasant bonus for an already planned child, and most people are not ready to “bother” specifically for these 779 thousand rubles. This is also shown by a recent VTsIOM survey on the topic “why I don’t want to give birth to a child in the next 5 years,” where the overwhelming number of women surveyed found three main reasons for this: a weak financial situation, an unstable situation in the country, and they already have one child.

And now, according to information published in the media, it is now proposed to amend the legislation, according to which the right to receive maternity capital will be available only five years after acquiring Russian citizenship.

How will the complication of the payment procedure for migrants who have only recently become citizens of the country affect the birth rate? Well, they don’t give birth for the sake of maternal capital – they just have such traditions.

For those future parents who have recently been massively accepted as Russian citizens – residents of the former territories of Ukraine, now annexed – there will be no restrictions on payments.

The bill directly states that for new citizens from Central Asia there will be one set of rules, and for residents of the LDPR, Kherson and Zaporozhye regions – others. But there are no different types of citizens of the same country. As well as citizenship of the first and second freshness.

Otherwise, this is no longer about laws, but about the forced division of the country’s citizens into racial, ethnic or other groups in everyday life and the deprivation of their civil rights. How can one not recall the non-Russian-speaking children of migrants in Volgograd, who were offered to be taught separately from the rest, while being deprived of the opportunity to assimilate and become like everyone else.