Putin, Desperate To Reverse Russia’s Demographic Collapse, Moves To Restrict Abortions and Pardon Female Inmates Who Conceive During Marital Visits

Changes are part of long-range, societal fixes, as toll in Ukraine war has taken 300,000 men killed or seriously wounded.

Alexei Druzhinin/pool via AP, file
President Putin, center, and Russia's health minister, Veronika Skvortsova, right of him, at a new maternity center in Bryansk in 2017. Alexei Druzhinin/pool via AP, file

Running short of soldiers, Russia is turning to novel, long range societal fixes: restricting abortions, banning gay groups, and pardoning female inmates who conceive during marital visits. The changes come as President Putin looks ahead to presidential elections next March.

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