31 Аug 2026
Private clinics in Kabardino-Balkaria, Nenets Autonomous Okrug, Kalmykia, North Ossetia, Tuva, Chukotka, Dagestan, Karelia, and Magadan, Tver, and Kurgan oblasts performed no abortions in 2025, according to the To Be Precise project, citing Rosstat data.
At the same time, the share of abortions performed in private clinics doubled over seven years, from 19% of all abortions in 2018 to 38.6% in 2025. In 23 regions, private clinics account for more than half of all abortions.
March 12, 2026
by Yuliia Taradiuk, Kyiv Independent
Russian-controlled authorities in occupied Ukraine are increasing restrictions on women's reproductive rights, effectively preventing them from accessing abortions, according to the NGO East Human Rights Group.
"The (Russian) regime needs children to be born, even if the child is unwanted, without proper conditions to grow up in," Vera Iastrebova, the head of the East Human Rights Group, told the Kyiv Independent.
Continued: https://kyivindependent.com/russia-tightens-control-over-abortion-in-ukraines-occupied-territories/
Shrinking Reproductive Options, Growing Pressure, Disinformation
Feb 19, 2026
Human Rights Watch
(Berlin) – Russian authorities are restricting access to safe abortion care and limiting the ability of women and girls to get accurate information about their reproductive choices, Human Rights Watch said today.
Authorities at all levels have openly pressured private clinics to stop performing abortions, toughened licensing requirements, revoked their licenses, and reclassified drugs used in medical abortion as controlled substances, making them harder to access. The Health Ministry’s 2025 guidelines for medical professionals, applicable to both public and private facilities, pressure women seeking an abortion to continue the pregnancy.
Continued: https://www.hrw.org/news/2026/02/19/russia-attacks-on-abortion-undermine-womens-rights
23 December 2025
Novaya Gazeta Europe
A court in the central Russian city of Saransk has issued what is believed to be the country’s first fine for “inducement” to an abortion, the pro-life Women for Life Foundation reported on Monday.
The fine of 5,000 rubles (€54) was issued on 8 December to a local man who suggested his then partner terminate her pregnancy. The ruling was discovered by independent news outlet Mediazona on the website of the justice department of the republic of Mordovia, of which Saransk is the capital.
Oct 30, 2025
Moscow Times
Two Siberian regions have become the 26th and 27th Russian regions to adopt legislation this week banning the “coercion” of pregnant women into terminating a pregnancy amid efforts by conservative figures to expand state pressure to boost birth rates.
The neighboring Kemerovo region and Altai republic adopted laws Monday and Tuesday banning “persuasion, requests, offers, deception, bribery or other actions” aimed at encouraging a woman to have an abortion.
Exceptions apply to doctors providing medical or social reasons for abortion.
Amidst the war and the difficult demographic situation in Russia, pressure on women is increasing
Sep 12, 2025
Deutsche Welle
The authorities in Russia are in fact continuing to restrict women's access to abortions. Under pressure from the state, private clinics are increasingly refusing the procedure for terminating pregnancy or delaying it. In the Murmansk region, for example, there is an unofficial ban on medical abortions after the sixth week of pregnancy, human rights activists report. After this period, women are left with only the more traumatic methods: vacuum aspiration or curettage.
This is happening against the backdrop of the worsening demographic situation in Russia. After May of this year, the Russian authorities stopped publishing demographic statistics. Shortly before that, the independent analyst and former expert at "Rosstat" Alexey Raksha announced that in March, an absolute record number of births was set in Russia since such statistics were kept at the end of the 18th century.
Continued: https://fakti.bg/en/world/999830-abortion-ban-in-russia-unofficially-in-force
July 17, 2025
Alexander Avilov / Moskva News Agency
Activists are appealing to Russian doctors to protect abortion rights for women as authorities across Russia continue to clamp down on access to the procedure.
“Don’t take part in propaganda. Don’t forget that abortion is still legal in Russia. Don’t delay the process. Help women carry out their choice,” Feminist Anti-War Resistance, a group founded in protest against Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, urged medical professionals in the digital campaign, called Give Me a Choice.
A petition initiated by the orthodox church calls on regional deputies to adopt a law to ban “inducement to abortion" in the Arkhangelsk Oblast.
Thomas Nilsen
6 March 2025
The proposed law text is posted on the Vkontakte page of a church in Severodvinsk. Churches in Novodvinsk and Arkhangelsk are also collecting signatures aimed at the regional assembly to take action and adopt a new anti-abortion law.
It should not be allowed to propagate abortion, and it should not be allowed to assist with termination of pregnancy anywhere in the Arkhangelsk region, the proposed law text suggest.
In social media, the church has posted a banner of an unborn baby side-by-side with a young child dressed up in combat uniform: "Protect me today, I can protect you tomorrow. Abortion is murder," the text reads.
Feb 7, 2025
Moskva News Agency
Authorities in northwestern Russia’s Vologda region are considering banning abortions in both private and state-run clinics, a move that would make it the first Russian region to implement a total ban if approved.
Vologda region Governor Georgy Filimonov said Thursday that local officials plan to discuss the measure with representatives from public and private medical institutions later this month.
January 13, 2025
By Current Time and Chris Rickleton
With Russian President Vladimir Putin declaring 2024 the Year of the Family, the pressure was on lawmakers and local governments to go the extra mile.
They didn't disappoint.
From an intensifying campaign against abortions, new "family studies" classes for schoolchildren, and tougher hurdles to get divorced, last year saw Russia invade new territory in its fight for "traditional family values."
Continued: https://www.rferl.org/a/33273068.html
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