Russians are now marrying approximately four years later than they did a little over a century ago, following with a certain lag the same pattern in most other countries and one that experts say shows that this trend will continue well into the future, the To Be Precise portal says. 

Vladimir Putin would like to reverse this trend in order to boost the birthrate, but he has not been able to slow let alone reverse this trend and he is also up against a fact of life that he doesn’t appear to take into consideration. Even those who marry earlier now have fewer children than their coevals earlier (tochno.st/materials/v-kakom-vozraste-rossiiane-zakliucaiut-brak).

In 1897, Russian men entered into their first marriage at 24.2 years and Russian women at 21.4, the portal says. “By 2021, the age of........

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