Volume 52 - Article 29 | Pages 939–970
Periods of high uncertainty: How fertility intentions in Russia changed during 2022–2023
By Elena Vakulenko, Dmitriy Gorskiy, Valeria Kondrateva, Ilya Trofimenko
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