Anyone who openly promotes childlessness in Russia will face high fines of between 400,000 rubles (around 3,800 euros) for ordinary citizens and five million rubles (47,619 euros) for legal entities, according to a law passed in the first of three readings State Duma in Moscow.
Russia’s power apparatus has been fighting falling birth rates for years without any resounding success. Putin recently stated that his goal was that Russian families should have three or more children and that this should be the standard. According to official information, he himself has two daughters.
According to the statistics agency Rosstat, on average a woman gave birth to 1.41 children in 2023. In Austria the so-called fertility rate is 1.31. South Korea has a particularly low rate, where a woman has an average of 0.72 children.
