Russia’s ‘weird’ campaign to boost its birth rate

The country’s fertility rate was 1.4 births per woman in 2023, according to the most recent UN statistics. That’s well below ...
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Putin pushes fatherhood to boost the population, while Ukraine is in a deep demographic crisis

By Ben Aris in Berlin Russian President Vladimir Putin has been focused on dealing with Russia’s demographic crisis from his ...
WPXI

Russia faces a shrinking and aging population and tries restrictive laws to combat it

For a quarter century, President Vladimir Putin has faced the specter of Russia's shrinking and aging population. In 1999, a year before he came to power, the number of babies born in Russia plunged ...
AOL

Russia’s population is shrinking rapidly. Putin is trying to put a stop to that

For a quarter of a century, Russian president Vladimir Putin has grappled with his country’s declining and ageing population. The demographic crisis pre-dates his ascent to power, with the nation ...
Newsweek

Russia Appears To Be Hiding Its Death Figures

The Russian government has stopped reporting the number of deaths in Russia as the Kremlin is likely keen to conceal Russia's losses from the war in Ukraine, a report says. Rosstat, Russia's state ...