Putin's health minister urges Russian women to have babies earlier

Putin’s health minister tells Russian women it is ‘improper’ to put education or careers before childbirth as he orders them to have babies earlier

• Minister Mikhail Murashko, 56, has urged Russian women to have babies earlier
• The birth rate – lower than the death rate – is a major worry for Russian officials

Vladimir Putin’s health minister is ordering Russian women to give birth to children earlier.

Delaying childbirth for education, a career and money is ‘improper’, said Mikhail Murashko, who is also a doctor specialising in obstetrics and gynaecology.

His demand for women to have children younger fits with Putin’s desire to stem a decline in the birthrate in Russia.

Critics say the dictator’s war against Ukraine has led couples to delay having babies.

Meanwhile, Putin, 70, has been accused of stealing children from Ukraine and forcibly bringing them to Russia to boost the declining population.

A father of two sons, ultra-loyalist health minister Murashko, 56, lamented the mindset that sees women study, rise the ladder in their workplace and seek financial status before contemplating having children.

Ultra-loyalist health minister Mikhail Murashko, 56, has lamented the mindset that sees women seek financial status before contemplating having children

Vladimir Putin is believed to have at least two secret children with his lover Alina Kabaeva, 40, an Olympic gold medal winning rhythmic gymnast

‘A belief has developed that a woman should first get an education and build a career and that only after that should she think about having children,’ he told the Russian parliament.

‘Many problems arise as a result: infertility, miscarriage, IVF.’

These included ‘reduced time for the birth of the third or fourth child’.

The health minister is to impose strict curbs in Russia by the end of the year on abortion-inducing drugs issued by doctors and chemists, he said.

The restrictions must mirror controls on psychotropic medications, he said.

‘A woman should understand that the earlier she gives birth, the better,’ he told MPs.

The ‘responsibility’ for giving birth early and often should be explained to girls ‘in their schooldays’, he insisted.

Latest abortion statistics show a decline by 3.9 per cent – some 16,200 cases.

Maria Vorontsova (pictured), 38, a geneticist and expert on dwarfism, is Putin’s eldest child with his ex-wife Lyudmila Putina, once Russia’s first lady

Putin’s second daughter with his ex-wife Lyudmila Putina is Katerina Tikhonova (pictured), 36, a former high kicking ‘rock’n’roll’ dancer-turned-mathematician

Another daughter is Luiza Rozova, 20, aka Elizaveta Vladimirovna Krivonogikh, who is studying in the West as a student of design during her father’s war

In 2021, there were 411,000 abortions compared to 395,000 in 2022.

The poor birth rate – lower than the death rate – is a major worry for Russian officials.

They dare not admit that Putin’s war is a significant factor in discouraging couples from having children.

Yet nor can they portray Putin as an icon in terms of boosting the population, even though he has achieved more than most Russian men in this regard.

He has at least five children – and some observers say seven – but only publicly admits to two.

These are his daughters with ex-wife Lyudmila Putina, once Russia’s first lady.

Journalists have established that his eldest is known by the name Maria Vorontsova, 38, a geneticist and expert on dwarfism, is a leading researcher at the National Medical Research Centre for Endocrinology of the Ministry of Health of Russia.

Her sister Katerina Tikhonova, 36, a former high kicking ‘rock’n’roll’ dancer-turned-mathematician, is director-general of the National Intellectual Development Foundation in Russia.

She was appointed to a high-powered group supervising import substitution to evade Western sanctions.

Another daughter is Luiza Rozova, 20, aka Elizaveta Vladimirovna Krivonogikh, who is studying in the West as a student of design during her father’s war.

Her mother is Putin’s former long-term lover, cleaner-turned-multimillionaire Svetlana Krivonogikh, 48.

Putin is believed to have at least two other secret children with his later lover Alina Kabaeva, 40, an Olympic gold medal winning rhythmic gymnast.

They are younger – born in 2015 and 2019, and raised in several palaces guarded by the FSO security service near Moscow, and on the Black Sea

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