Sales of abortion pills in 2022 were up 60%, according to Nikolay Bespalov, development director of the RNC Pharma analytical company. They fell 35% this year, still higher than pre-2022 levels.

For Russia, the trend is striking. Though President Vladimir Putin has pushed traditional family values in recent years and promoted the role of the Russian Orthodox Church, liberal abortion laws have ...

Valua warns that the surgery in Russia "can be a painful and uncomfortable procedure, which scares many women." ...

In the name of defending 'traditional values,' and at a time when the population is shrinking, many politicians are ...

TALLINN, Estonia — Russian-installed health officials in Crimea said Thursday that private clinics on the Moscow-annexed peninsula have “voluntarily” stopped providing abortions, which means ...

Russia should ban abortion or pay families to procreate to alleviate an acute demographic crisis that has been compounded by the war in Ukraine, according to a prominent member of the country’s ...

Russia's farm goods oversight agency, Rosselkhoznadzor, said on Thursday it was reinstating restrictions last imposed in 2022 ...

BRUSSELS, Nov 17 (Reuters) - The European Commission is proposing to ban the sale of tankers for crude oil and petroleum products to Russia to prevent Moscow bypassing western sanctions on Russian ...

Despite its last-minute scheduling, the meeting at a bookstore in Russia’s westernmost city of Kaliningrad still drew about 60 people, with many outraged by a lawmaker’s efforts to ban ...

Officials in Russia-Annexed Crimea Say Private Clinics Have Stopped Providing Abortions TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Russian-installed health officials in Crimea said Thursday that private clinics on ...