Brendan Cole is a Newsweek Senior News Reporter based in London, UK. His focus is Russia and Ukraine, in particular the war started by Moscow. He also covers other areas of geopolitics including ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin introduced a new initiative to address Russia’s declining birth rate encouraging citizens to have sex during work breaks, Metro.co.uk reported. This comes as ...

Russian ministers have also called on women to start families at the age of 18, while others have condemned women who have pursued higher education before giving birth.

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