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What was once framed as encouragement has increasingly become pressure, with women and girls at the center of a state-driven campaign to raise birth rates. Over the past year, the Kremlin has moved ...

Russia is experiencing a severe demographic crisis due to a shrinking population, accelerated by the war in Ukraine, high ...

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 ...