Unwanted children should be raised by the state instead, a Russian lawmaker has proposed Russia should offer money to women thinking about aborting their babies, so that the government can raise them instead, State Duma Deputy Sultan Khamzaev proposed on Tuesday.

The Defense Ministry in Moscow has offered security guarantees to those who refuse to back Evgeny Prigozhin The Russian Ministry of Defense has urged Wagner Group private military company soldiers to cease their armed insurrection, urging them to return to their bases.

The country’s GDP has turned positive in the second quarter after a year of declines Russia has seen its Gross Domestic Product values turn to growth in the second quarter of the year, the country’s statistics service Rosstat reported on Friday, despite lingering pressure from Western sanctions.