[2banana]

The government is trying to head off the country’s severe population decline by luring back Russians who live abroad as well as their descendants. Mr. Reutov and several dozen other members of his religious community from Uruguay have become among the most striking examples of this policy.

Russia has some of the highest abortion rates in the world..

[mamelukesabre]

And that would explain why they want the “old believers” back. They don’t abort.