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Russians who promote 'child-free movement' could soon face hefty fine

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Lawmakers have proposed a ban on “propaganda of conscious refusal to bear children’s.

It is the latest effort by authorities to combat the demographic strain of falling birth rates, exacerbated by the war in Ukraine .

The move is just the latest step in a Kremlin campaign to promote what it casts as “traditional values” as it reshapes Russian society.

Russia 's birth rate is plummeting to its lowest in a quarter century .

Putin has declared 2024 the “year of the family” as part of an effort to defend Russia ’s traditional way of life.

“This does not spell anything good for women's rights in Russia ,” a Russian scholar says.

But the proposed bill is also “dangerous for everyone,’ a lawyer says.

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70

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67

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informal

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English

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54

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short-lived

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