Paul Goble
Staunton, Dec. 22 – Polls have shown that for residents of Russia the word of the year is “anxiety;” for grammarians, it is “zoomer;” and for the Pushkin Institute, it is “victory.” But a survey of official documents shows that as far as the Russian government is concerned, the real word of the year is “birthrate.”
Analysts at the Russian Academy of Economics and State Survey reviewed 10,553 government documents including laws and orders issued in 2025 and found that “birthrate” was by far the most frequently used word over the past 12 months (ranepa.ru/news/rozhdaemost-gosudarstvennoe-slovo-2025-goda/).
They also reported that the frequency of the use of this word had increased by eight times compared with the figure for 2024, an indication that the Putin regime has become far more focused on this issue than any other and one that suggests this trend is likely to continue into 2026 as well.
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