President Vladimir Putin is voicing concern about the ongoing internal problem of “falling birth rates” in his own country ...

Vladimir Putin at a perinatal center in Kaliningrad in 2011. Some female college students in Russia can now receive payments for giving birth to healthy babies. This comes as the country’s birth rate ...

Russia’s population has fallen from 147.6 million in 1990 — the year before the USSR collapsed — to 146.1 million this year, ...

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 ...

As examples, the head of state cited Finland, Norway, and Spain, where the birth rate is even lower than in Russia MOSCOW, December 19. /TASS/. The birth rate in Russia is insufficient, mirroring ...

The number of contracted marriages increased to 48,334 or by 28.7% against the like period of the last year, the Russian Federal Statistics Service, Rosstat, reported MOSCOW, March 14. /TASS/. The ...

Russia's birth rate has fallen to a historic low, reaching levels not seen since the late 18th to early 19th century, according to a leading Russian demographer. Newsweek has contacted Russia's ...