Maya Mehrara is a News Reporter at Newsweek based in London, U.K.. Her focus is reporting on international news. She has covered Ukraine, Russia, immigration issues, and the revolution in Iran.

“It [the birth rate] is now at a terribly low level—1.4 [births per woman]. This is comparable to European countries, Japan, and so on.” Russia has been tending toward a demographic crisis ...

Russia's birth rate has plunged to its lowest level since ... rate but the latest figures show the extent of the demographic crisis his country faces. Fisenko told a government committee meeting ...

Elon Musk highlighted a report detailing Russia's alarming decline in birth rates, allegedly reaching the lowest figures ...

Russia's birth rate hit a 25-year low in the first half of 2024, with 599,600 births. The demographic crisis worsened due to the Ukraine war, causing many to delay having children. Incentives like ...

The Kremlin’s top doctor this week encouraged all Russians to engage in a "sex-at-work" scheme in a move to back President Vladimir Putin’s attempts to counter a growing population crisis.

Moscow launches another controversial set of measures to try to stop the demographic decline, now worsened by war-related ...

The move comes in the face of a growing demographic crisis in Russia, which has a birth rate of just 1.42 births per woman and soaring mortality rates, according to figures from the World Bank.

Mario Nawfal shared a Newsweek excerpt revealing Russia's plummeting birth rate, hitting a 200-year low, now deemed a state ...

Russia is considering starting a new government ministry and would pay female students to have a child in order to combat the countrywide birth rate crisis, according to Indian newspaper The ...