Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Russia is facing a demographic crisis, officials say, but women who spoke to AFP said the state's efforts to get them to have more ...

Russia is set to refer women who do not want children to psychologists. The move comes under new health guidelines, which are designed to address the country’s dwindling birth rate. Low birth rates ...

Russian women say the idea of "therapising" them into having children is coercive, cruel and unworkable, and will do little to reverse declining birth rates -- currently at their lowest in 200 years.