The country’s fertility rate was 1.4 births per woman in 2023, according to the most recent UN statistics. That’s well below the 2.1 replacement rate and 20% lower than in 2015. And since then, an ...

Members of Russia's lower house of parliament attend a plenary session in Moscow MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia's lower house of parliament voted unanimously on Tuesday to ban what authorities cast as ...

Vladimir Putin was forced to launch a new “breeding scheme” this month as Russia’s birth rate plummets, RadarOnline.com has learned. In a startling development to come as the 70-year-old Russian ...

Russia's birth rate hit a 25-year low in the first half of 2024, with 599,600 births. The demographic crisis worsened due to the Ukraine war, causing many to delay having children. Incentives like ...

President Vladimir Putin has announced a series of plans to increase the number of children being born in Russia from an average birth rate of under 1.5 per woman to 1.7 within four years. Last year ...

Russia has moved to classify key demographic statistics following a dramatic collapse in its birth rate, which has plunged to levels not seen since the late 18th or early 19th century, according to a ...

Russians in the Nizhny Novgorod Oblast receive one million rubles (about $10,000) for the birth of each child they have, starting from next year, amid the country's sinking birth rate. Governor Gleb ...

A Ukrainian official said Friday that Russians in the city of Mariupol have begun issuing birth certificates to children being born there. "Yesterday in Mariupol the occupiers issued the first birth ...

A woman in Ukraine has given birth while shielding from Russian bombardment in a subway station in Kyiv. The 23-year-old, who has not been named, welcomed baby Mia into the world just before 8.30pm on ...

LONDON, Nov 15 (Reuters) - A Russian woman has given birth to five healthy quintuplet girls at a British hospital after defying Russian doctors who suggested she abort some of the foetuses. "They're ...

Mariana Vishegirskaya gave birth to a daughter, named Veronika. A woman in Ukraine gave birth a day after surviving a Russian airstrike on a children's hospital and maternity ward. Mariana ...

Every year, hundreds of pregnant Russian women travel to the United States to give birth so that their child can acquire all the privileges of American citizenship. They pay anywhere from $20,000 to ...