Looks like post-1991 Russia (and most other former Soviet republics) literally copied this policy, only with Moscow in place of Madrid. Your descriptions are very familiar.
I think I saw somewhere some statistical tables on population dynamics of different cities and towns, but I don’t remember, where I saw it. I’ll try to find it again (or maybe compile some tables myself based on publically available data).
The easiest approach is probably to look at Moscow’s population. For example, there lived 9 017 415 in 1991 and 13 274 285 in 2025.
Looks like post-1991 Russia (and most other former Soviet republics) literally copied this policy, only with Moscow in place of Madrid. Your descriptions are very familiar.
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I think I saw somewhere some statistical tables on population dynamics of different cities and towns, but I don’t remember, where I saw it. I’ll try to find it again (or maybe compile some tables myself based on publically available data).
The easiest approach is probably to look at Moscow’s population. For example, there lived 9 017 415 in 1991 and 13 274 285 in 2025.
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