Article in Irkutsk web paper about the money being offered to Russian families to have more children. The 250000 rubles for 2nd and 3rd child is about $10,000. May not be much to us, but is equvialant to 19 years salary to the average Russian.
According to this article (translated below with translation software so some sentences are not logical) there has been an increase in births already.

More than 200 women of Angarski Krai became mums for the first days of new year (10.01.2007)

Results of the promised state support it is available. In Irkutsk becomes more and more than future mums. Partly it connect with the law which has come into force in it to year. According to the document the women who given birth not the first child or have adopted the kid, can receive 250 thousand roubles.
In female consultation city perinatalnogo it is more than center of pregnant women, than when or. Administrations even the third was necessary to organize additional, reception. Two do not consult any more. In everyone on the account of the order of 150 women. From them many wait for the second, third child. Doctors partly connect such pleasant tendency with innovations in the legislation.

Elvira [Struganova], who manages by the female consultation of the urban perinatal center:
— women come and speak: “Yes, us stimulated this law to [rozhat] the second child”. This is basic moment, that increased a quantity of pregnant females, but this moment including.
For the comparison: after 2005 in the female consultation of perinatal center registered about 600 future moms. In the past they arose to the calculation of 850 women. It will be still more, doctors are assured. Demographic increase is only plus.

Irina Yezhov, the head physician city perinatalnogo the center:
— One of assumptions, that owing to introduction of the law on the parent capital at us should be reduced quantity thrown and otkaznyh children and the quantity of children which will leave in families adopted should increase. And I think, that already in the end of this year we shall see the positive parties of this law.

For the present and to moms, and to doctors, and by civil agents it is necessary to study in our own experience some nuances. 250 thousand rubles, promised by state, woman will be able to obtain only in three years. And that not to the hands, but in the form the enumerations on account of the instruction of child, improvement in the housing conditions, or the base part of the future maternal pension. State has the right to refuse in the assignment of capital to women, the devoid maternal rights. But in order to avoid swindle, repeated payments, the united all-Russian base of those, who obtained grant, will be created. In the Pension fund for Irkutsk region they say: to the women, who in this year bore the second or third child, it is already time to trouble.

Helen [Kocherzhinskaya], division head according to the designation of the monthly payments of the department of the Pension fund for Irkutsk region and [UOBAO]:
— woman must with the documents: with the passport, which certifies personality, the citizenship (citizenship must be compulsorily Russian), by evidence about the generation of all children or by documents about the adoption — to turn into the Pension fund, to fill the statement of the established form.

Thus far such statements in the Pension fund for Irkutsk region it did not act. It is known that the forms of certificates, on which they will allow maternal capital, are already developed. In the next month they will enter into the regions.