Leslie Root is a PhD student in demography at the University of California, Berkeley. She also holds an MA in Eurasian, Russian, and East European Studies. Leslie focuses on reproductive decision-making in low-fertility contexts and on demography in Russia, the Caucasus, and Turkey.
In early April, the Pew Research Center, a non-profit fact tank based in Washington, DC, released The Changing Global Religious Landscape, a report on global...
In December 2015, the parliament of the partially-recognized, Russian-backed state of Abkhazia in the South Caucasus quietly passed a bill outlawing abortion....