While Russia has historically maintained a liberal abortion policy, the conservative turn among the country’s leadership, combined with a push from the Russian Orthodox Church.
Russian drones on Wednesday damaged infrastructure at a Ukrainian port on the Danube near Romania, as Moscow targeted facilities vital for grain shipments from Ukraine following the collapse of a key export arrangement.
A total of 1.4 million drugs that induce abortions and 2.2 million emergency contraception drugs were sold in Russia last year, marking a 60% and 53% increase from 2021, respectively. Russia’s invasion in Ukraine and the Western sanctions along with the population’s falling income levels and the mobilization of young men...
An “overwhelming majority” of the 700,000 Ukrainian children arrived in Russia with their parents or relatives, the Russian children’s rights commissioner Maria Lvova-Belova said without offering further details. A UN-backed investigation has determined that Russia’s forced transfer and deportation of Ukrainian children...
While Russia has historically had a liberal abortion policy — with the exception of the Stalin-era ban — the conservative turn among the country’s leadership, combined with a push from the Russian Orthodox Church, have put a target on the issue.
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Serbian leadership and security services may well take legal action at the request of the Kremlin or Russia’s security services against any Russian citizen whose activism displeases Moscow, political scientists say.
Russia did not face an imminent security threat to justify its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Yevgeny Prigozhin, the founder of Russia’s Wagner mercenary outfit, said in a bombshell video posted on social media Friday. “The Armed Forces of Ukraine were not going to attack Russia with the NATO bloc,” Prigozhin explained in...