Russian lawmakers on Tuesday passed a controversial bill outlawing so-called “childfree propaganda,” as authorities ramp up efforts to both increase birth rates and promote “traditional values” among families.

Deputies in Russia’s lower-house State Duma voted unanimously in favor of the bill, which prohibits the public dissemination of materials,

A Moscow court on Tuesday sentenced a pediatrician to five-and-a-half years in prison for criticizing the war in Ukraine during a patient visit earlier this year.

Nadezhda Buyanova, 68, was found guilty of spreading "fake" information on the Russian army under wartime laws used to silence dissent.

"I believe this is absurd," she said in court

A local official in southwestern Russia’s Kursk region was sacked Tuesday after residents who were displaced by Ukraine’s cross-border incursion came out over the weekend to protest a lack of compensation for lost housing.

“The head of Sudzhansky district will be relieved of his post today,” Kursk region Governor Alexei Smirnovtold residents who