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Divorce Boom Hits Moscow

Moscow, Jan 12
Moscow saw a four percent rise in the divorce rate last year, with more than 45,000 couples deciding to untie the marriage knot, an official with the Russian capital's registry office said Friday.

"That is an amazing figure," said Tatiana Ushakova. "We have not registered so many divorces in at least five years."

She said Moscow experienced a slight increase in marriages, while marriages with foreigners became less popular.

"Men from 93 countries arrived in Moscow last year to marry local women," Ushakova said.

She added most foreign marriages involved citizens of Turkey, Germany, the US, Britain and former Yugoslavia.

Ushakova said the birth rate in the Russian capital grew in 2006 despite the rise in divorces. It increased by 1,780 newborns as compared to 2005.

Last year, President Vladimir Putin had highlighted the demographic crisis afflicting Russia in his May state of the nation address, proposing radical new measures to deal with the falling birth rate and a population decline of some 700,000 a year.

On Dec 31, 2006, he signed into law additional measures in support of families with children, by which they will receive 250,000 rubles (some $9,400) for the birth of every additional child after the first. 

RIA Novosti  News of Jan 12, 2007

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