They're taking care of the birth rate as best they can: In Yekaterinburg, there have been fewer criminal cases for falsifying residence registration documents to enroll in a prestigious school.

How to said city ​​prosecutor Svetlana KuznetsovaLast year, only four criminal cases were opened for the fictitious registration of first-graders: parents are forced to take this step in order to enroll their child in a school they consider worthy (and not the one located in their actual place of residence).

Such actions are considered forgery of official documents. Punishment is a fine of up to 80 rubles, community service for up to 480 hours, or six months' imprisonment.

According to the prosecutor, the statistics have declined: previously, up to 12 criminal cases were opened per year in the city for fictitious registration of first-graders. Most often, this resulted in a fine (and a tarnished record). However, in 2022, the court sentenced one of the mothers was sentenced to six months of restricted freedom. 

"Why do you have to falsify your registration to enroll in your favorite school? Doesn't the prosecutor's office have any questions about that?" resent residents in the comments to this news.

However, the decline in the number of criminal cases already looks like concern for the birth rate, which officials have been actively encouraging recently.

For example, at the end of last year, the Sverdlovsk vice-governor Pavel Krekov claimedThat higher education should be pursued after starting a family. And that the "golden age" for having children is between 21 and 23 years old.

For young mothers, they even provided a cash payment of 50 thousand rubles and promise create kindergartens at universities.

And the head of the capital repair fund of the Sverdlovsk region Stanislav Sukhanov already She urged women give birth to representatives of blue-collar jobs that are in short supply - painters, welders and plasterers.

Criminal cases against parents who obtained fictitious registration to enroll their child in a prestigious school are also being opened in other regions. For example, in 2023, a court sentenced four residents St. Petersburg to fines ranging from five to 10 thousand rubles.