> Putin is doing everything to get fertility rate up again

Any success?

He absolutely increased poverty levels, education is in extremely sharp decline, propaganda is thriving, and he started to fight birth control (so far, emergency contraception only).

And I must remind that Russia is having an electoral event this March, so the repressions were temporarily put on a back burner - but unpopular changes will come shortly afterwards. Check back in May or June.

"The fertility rate more than halved since then, they're not playing with the same cards anymore "