| Summary/Abstract |
THIS SPECIAL SECTION IS DEDICATED TO FAMILY LIFE, health, and reproduction in the context of Russia and Ukraine. One important component in post-Soviet transformation in the social sphere was idealisation of the ‘traditional family’ (Zhurzhenko 2004, 2008). In fact, a neo-conservative discourse, which promotes traditional family life and denounces homosexuality and abortion, has increasingly come to dominate post-Soviet Russia in the last decade (Rodin & Åberg 2013). This discourse can partly be linked to the growing influence of the Russian Orthodox Church and to religion becoming an important identity marker for Russian nationhood, partly to Russia’s demographic problems with a shrinking population, and ultimately to a general and rising nationalistic discourse.
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