#Mikhail Murashko

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Although Russia doesn’t currently have a federal law banning abortions, an increasing number of private clinics now refuse to perform the procedure. In March, 19 private clinics in Russia’s Republic of Tatarstan “voluntarily” stopped performing abortions. And Tatarstan isn’t an isolated case: over the past year, access to abortion in private clinics has been restricted in at least 15 Russian regions. Doctors fear this signals a possible imminent curtailment of women’s reproductive rights at the national level. The independent journalists’ cooperative Bereg asked doctors at clinics that previously performed abortions for their perspectives on the situation. With Bereg’s permission, Meduza shares their answers, translated into English.

The following responses have been lightly edited for clarity.

Elena (name changed)

In our clinic, we see about two or three patients a week who want to terminate their pregnancies. The consultants at state healthcare facilities actively promote anti-abortion policies and encourage women to give birth, so women are forced to turn to private clinics. It used to be that a woman could go to a consultation at a government-run clinic and easily schedule an abortion. Now, state institutions actively pressure them: “No, we won’t give you an abortion — have the baby.” So, the woman goes to a private clinic.

I believe that women should be given the right to choose because having a child is a huge responsibility. After all, the child not only needs to be born but also raised. Children should be wanted. Restricting the right to abortion shows complete disregard for a woman’s opinion. I know that they’ve banned abortions in Crimea, but if they ban them in all regions, what will we do? Women will be giving birth to unwanted children, and there will be more children in orphanages. It’s bad. I’m active on social media, and I conducted a survey: the majority of my followers said that women should have the right to choose.

There were about 30 clinics licensed to perform abortions in Tatarstan; 19 is more than half. But again, there are abortion pills, and then there’s vacuum aspiration. Pills aren’t suitable for everyone because of certain deadlines. And vacuum aspiration is a surgical procedure; the clinic has to be equipped for it. We have very few clinics in the republic that can perform it.

Of course, if there’s a total ban, there will be more underground abortions. I’m certain of that. In the 1990s, it was very common; there were midwives who performed abortions at home. Many women died of sepsis. If they completely ban abortion now, women will look for ways to do it illegally. If a woman wants to, she’ll find a way.

I perform abortions, but mostly for medical reasons, when the pregnancy isn’t viable. If a woman has an unwanted pregnancy, I always ask her what the reason is. For example, sometimes she already has three or four children. Or she has a very young child and isn’t ready to have another. Or she says her husband was called up to the front, and she found out she was pregnant, and what can she do? I don’t know how I feel about it; it all depends on the situation.

You understand where a woman is coming from, basically — that her pregnancy’s unwanted, that there are certain circumstances, that she needs help. But there’s pressure from the state. If abortions are banned, there will be a huge uproar and revolt. There will definitely be protest movements. I think everything is slowly heading in that direction.

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It all started a few years ago when Russian Health Minister Mikhail Murashko began talking about the need to ban abortions in private clinics because of abortion’s supposed detrimental effect on demographics. Shortly after, ministers in a lot of regions started considering the matter. Not just in Tatarstan but in the Nizhny Novgorod and Kaliningrad regions as well, I think.

They gave various justifications for it. Some argued that there are a lot of medical complications in private clinics; others said there’s no statistical record, meaning the state doesn’t know how many abortions are performed there. They also claimed private clinics might violate regulations when performing abortions since they’re not subject to the same oversight as state-run clinics.

If, let’s say, private clinics are doing something poorly, they should probably be better regulated, right? Here, their perspective was: “We’re looking for grounds to justify banning abortion.” In exchange for pulling abortion services, they offered the private clinics state contracts and the opportunity to provide some other services covered under Russia’s Obligatory Medical Insurance: licenses for other procedures. That’s how the conversation unfolded.

Many did surrender their licenses to avoid souring relations with the ministry. It’s strange. I think it would have been enough to establish some kind of regulatory framework. Abortions don’t have any impact on demographics. There are studies showing this — not only in Russia but in other countries as well. Banning abortions doesn’t lead to increased birth rates; there are other reasons behind the declining birth rate.

If Russia completely bans abortion, it’s quite possible that the number of illegal abortions will increase. We already had experience in the Soviet Union with home abortions. You can physically do the procedure at home. It goes without saying that the timeframes [within which it’s safe to have an abortion] and hygiene guidelines probably won’t be observed, and there are complication and infection risks after these types of procedures.

Maybe banning abortions will slightly increase the number of births. But what kind of life will these children and their mothers have? This is completely wrong for society.

I have no particular feelings toward the local authorities because I know that it isn’t our Health Ministry that’s setting the policy. But at this stage, putting pressure on clinics is largely illegal: there’s no law that prohibits performing abortions in private clinics.

The government typically tests the water in such cases. A certain lawmaker says something and then watches to see how the population and activists react. Then, they’ll try to put some restrictions in place. Let’s say they ban private clinics from performing abortions and then watch to see if it works, if people accept it or not. Afterward, it’s entirely possible that they’ll introduce a complete abortion ban.

Lela

As far as I know, the Republic of Tatarstan’s Health Ministry convened a meeting with the heads of private clinics in 2023. There, they discussed a potential ban on abortions in private clinics and the voluntary surrender of licenses. Several clinics immediately gave up their licenses. And those that didn’t restricted access to the procedure. In January 2024, Russia’s first crisis pregnancy center opened in Tatarstan.

Private clinics are provided with detailed guidelines outlining each step of the process. Even down to what language should be used when talking to women, how to dissuade them from terminating the pregnancy. There are discussions at every stage, even when the doctor and patient are going into the operating room or when the patient is being given the first pill.

I don’t think Russia’s Health Ministry is pursuing a complete abortion ban. The ministry has to acknowledge that each woman’s situation is unique. But they’re definitely trying to reduce the number of abortions as much as possible.

Alexandra (name changed)

Many clinics in Kazan have stopped performing abortions altogether, while some will only do them up to the fifth or sixth week of pregnancy. This will likely lead people to look for other options. Where there’s a ban, there will always be workarounds — and those looking to profit from them. I’ve been asked to perform abortions even in late stages of pregnancy. While I refused, someone else will say yes.

As for a complete ban, no, the Russian authorities aren’t aiming for that. But they are trying to reduce the number of abortions; I think they do have that objective. Everything points to it: some clinics aren’t performing abortions anymore, and now you have to fill out so many forms, register these patients on [Russia’s government services portal] Gosuslugi, and make mandatory referrals to a psychologist.

Personally, I’m strongly opposed to what’s happening. Women should be able to decide whether or not they want to give birth, whether or not they’re able to support a child. The government doesn’t take on the full responsibility of providing for these children —just look at single mothers. So, I’m very against it. It’s a huge problem. This will lead to an increase in illegal abortions, which could lead to an increase in maternal mortality rates. And also, an increase in the number of abandoned children.

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The Kremlin has never been especially fond of feminist ideas. More than a decade ago, members of the feminist punk band Pussy Riot were sentenced to two years in prison for performing an anti-Putin song in a Moscow church. But pressure against feminist thought and activity has been ratcheting up. A domestic abuse law introduced in the State Duma in 2019 went nowhere. The next year, authorities designated the prominent Russian nonprofit Nasiliu.net, which supports domestic violence victims, as a foreign agent, a label regularly applied to critics of Mr. Putin’s politics. (Nasiliu.net’s founder, Anna Rivina, was personally deemed a foreign agent.) In 2021, they shut down a major national feminist festival, Moscow FemFest. “They didn’t refer to any laws but simply said, ‘We need to clear the space,’” the festival’s founder, Lola Tagaeva, told me.

When Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022, the Feminist Antiwar Resistance quickly formed and became one of the loudest protest movements in the country. More than 100 of its activists have faced various forms of persecution, the organization says. In one of the most high-profile cases, the artist Alexandra Skochilenko was recently sentenced to seven years in prison for swapping price tags in a St. Petersburg supermarket with statements highlighting civilian deaths in the conflict. Other political and social women’s initiatives have gained momentum since then, including mothers worrying about their sons being sent to war.

This summer, Russia’s health minister, Mikhail Murashko, criticized women putting their education and careers ahead of having children as “improper” and announced a national initiative to control the circulation of abortion-inducing drugs in pharmacies. At least two Russian regions have already outlawed “coercing” women into abortion, and in two other places, annexed Crimea and Kursk, private clinics have nearly stopped providing abortions altogether. Women nationwide have been panic-buying emergency contraception pills amid fears of a national ban.

Until now, the Russian state has typically opposed women’s groups by blocking their efforts to change laws or by issuing “black marks,” such as the foreign agent designation, designed to complicate lives bureaucratically. But a month before Ms. Berkovich and Ms. Petriychuk were arrested, a Russian lawmaker, Oleg Matveychev, claimed he had drafted a bill recognizing feminism as “an extremist ideology.” The bill has not advanced in the Duma.

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Konstantin Dobrynin, a Russian lawyer based in Britain, said that under that law, it is possible that an official charge of radical feminism might stick, given “the darkest times we live in today.” If that happens, he said, it could very likely lead to the criminalization of feminism as an ideology in Russia. It would be, he said, “a witch hunt and the Holy Inquisition in the most literal form.”

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🇷🇺  Il Ministro della Salute russo Mikhail Murashko ha dichiarato che nelle nuove regioni russe i costruttori hanno ristrutturato e costruito quasi 100 strutture sanitarie.

Il Ministro si è congratulato con i lavoratori dell'industria edile nel giorno celebrativo di questo settore [13 agosto].

"Oggi gli specialisti del settore edile contribuiscono a rilanciare il sistema sanitario nelle nuove regioni. 98 strutture sanitarie sono già state ristrutturate e costruite".

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Quindi se bombardassimo i nostri vetusti ospedali... 🤔

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il ministro della Sanità russo Mikhail Murashko vuole assicurarsi che ogni africano sia vaccinato al massimo.

Il Forum economico e umanitario russo-africano, tenutosi a San Pietroburgo alla fine di luglio, è stato un completo successo sotto ogni aspetto.

Erano presenti i più grandi nomi degli affari e dell'azione umanitaria legati all'Africa, incluso il principale filantropo russo:

Com'è che il signor Prigozhin frequenta gli africani in un hotel di lusso a San Pietroburgo, mentre Igor Strelkov - che ha denunciato Prigozhin come traditore e ha definito la "Marcia su Mosca" di Wagner un atto di tradimento - è in custodia a Mosca?)

Ma il Forum economico e umanitario russo-africano del 2023 non è stato solo un'opportunità per i signori della guerra di condividere suggerimenti e trucchi.

Il ministro della Sanità russo Mikhail Murashko e il direttore del Gamaleya Center Alexander Gintsburg hanno partecipato alla conferenza per sostenere legami più stretti tra Mosca e l'Africa.

Fonte: www.minzdrav.gov.ru

africa finitissima.....:-)

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Vladimir Putin ordered the creation of a psychiatric institute to study the behavior of LGBT people

Russian President Vladimir Putin instructed the Ministry of Health to create an institute for the study of LGBT persons at the Serbsky Center for Psychiatry and Narcology. This was stated by the Minister of Health Mikhail Murashko during the first reading in the State Duma of the draft law on the ban on transgender transition.

Murashko answered a question from Deputy Anatoly Wasserman whether the ministry was working on research into “psychiatric methods to bring these ideas [about gender roles and sexuality] into line with reality.”

The minister said that “this direction will also be further taken into obligatory scientific study.” According to him, the new institute will investigate “a number of behavioral areas, including social behavior” of LGBT people.

In addition, Murashko noted that Russian scientific centers are already working on the study of homosexual people. Whether domestic scientists and officials are considering the possibility of introducing conversion therapy in the country is unclear.

source: https://theins.ru/news/262594

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Is Putin Suffering From a Serious Health Problem?

The Kremlin was quick to issue a statement denying the rumor.  The 72-year-old Russian president recently spoke on television alongside Health Minister Mikhail Murashko, during which he urged Russians to get vaccinated against the flu… and spoke of his many visits to the doctor. “Doctors of the Central Clinical Hospital (in Moscow), where I undergo regular check-ups, also recommend that I be…

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Rusya Sağlık Bakanı kanser aşısındaki ilerlemeyi açıkladı

Mikhail Murashko, klinik öncesi deneylerin sonuçlarının yıl sonuna kadar hazır olacağını söyledi. Sağlık Bakanı Mikhail Murashko Cumartesi günü yaptığı açıklamada, Rus araştırmacıların kansere karşı aşı denemelerini tamamlamak üzere olduklarını açıkladı. Yetkiliye göre aşı, Gamaleya Epidemiyoloji ve Mikrobiyoloji Araştırma Enstitüsü, Blokhin Kanser Merkezi ve Hertsen Onkolojik Araştırma Enstitüsü tarafından ortaklaşa geliştirildi. "Bu kanser immünoterapisine yönelik bir ilaçtır. Birkaç bilimsel ekip tarafından ortaklaşa geliştirildi ve devlet tarafından finanse ediliyor. Aşı klinik öncesi denemelerden geçiyor ve yıl sonuna kadar ilk sonuçları almayı ve ardından klinik testlere başlamayı bekliyoruz," diye konuştu Murashko, St. Petersburg Uluslararası Ekonomik Forumu'nun (SPIEF) oturum aralarında TASS'a verdiği demeçte. Geçen hafta Gazeta.ru'ya verdiği röportajda Gamaleya Enstitüsü başkanı Aleksandr Gintsburg yeni ilacı anlattı ve bunun tedavi edici bir aşı olduğunu ve halihazırda kanser teşhisi konmuş kişilere uygulanacağını belirtti. İlaç üreticileri Pfizer ve Moderna tarafından Kovid-19'a karşı aşı yapımında halihazırda kullanılan mRNA teknolojisi temel alınarak oluşturuldu. Gintsburg, yeni aşının her türlü kansere karşı kullanılabileceğini kaydetti. Teknoloji, hücreler içinde, aşı geliştiricisinin bu mRNA'da kodladığı protein olan hedef antijenin çok büyük bir konsantrasyonunu oluşturmayı mümkün kılıyor. Bu, kanserli bir kişinin bağışıklık sistemine sağlıklı bir hücreyi kötü huylu bir hücreden nasıl ayırt edeceğini göstermek için gereklidir" diye açıkladı Gintsburg. İstatistiklere göre kanser hem Rusya'da hem de dünyada önde gelen ölüm nedenlerinden biridir. Dünya Sağlık Örgütü (WHO), yalnızca 2022 yılında yaklaşık 20 milyon yeni kanser vakasının ve 9,7 milyon ölümün meydana geleceğini tahmin ediyor. Ajans , Şubat ayındaki son raporunda , dünya çapında yaklaşık beş kişiden birinin yaşamı boyunca kansere yakalandığını, kabaca dokuz erkekten birinin ve 12 kadından birinin hastalıktan öldüğünü tahmin ediyor. Birçok ülke hastalığı tedavi etmenin yolları üzerinde çalışıyor. Mayıs ayında İngiltere'de kanser aşısının klinik denemeleri başladı. Ülkenin Ulusal Sağlık Servisi, kalıcı bir tedavi sağlamayı amaçlayan kişiselleştirilmiş kanser tedavilerini başlatmak için düzinelerce hastayı programına kaydetti. Araştırma hala erken bir aşamada olsa da, denemelerin ilacın ameliyattan sonra kalan tümör hücrelerini etkili bir şekilde yok edebildiğini ve kanserin tekrarlama riskini önemli ölçüde azaltabildiğini gösterdiği bildirildi. Read the full article

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Strage Mosca, 80 persone sono state ricoverate in ospedale

Ottanta persone sono state ricoverate negli ospedali di Mosca in seguito all’attacco terroristico di ieri sera: è quanto emerge dall’elenco dei feriti reso noto dal dipartimento della Salute della città: lo riporta l’agenzia di stampa Tass.     Non sono state fornite informazioni sullo stato dei feriti.     Tuttavia, in precedenza, il ministro della Sanità, Mikhail Murashko, aveva detto che 60 di…

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[ad_1] Russia's health minister has criticized the trend of women prioritizing their education and careers over having children, labeling it an “improper practice.” Addressing a plenary session of the State Duma on Tuesday, Mikhail Murashko lamented the prevalent mindset in society that a woman should first pursue education, build a career, and secure her financial status before considering starting a family. “Many problems arise as a result: infertility, miscarriage, IVF. Reduced time for the birth of the third or fourth child,” Murashko said. “The situation should be reviewed.” Murashko announced a Health Ministry initiative to control the circulation of abortion-inducing drugs in pharmacies. He noted that although the number of abortions has already decreased significantly, it could be reduced even further. The focus is on medication-induced abortions, not on contraceptives. He said that abortion-inducing drugs should be strictly controlled in medical and pharmaceutical organizations, similar to controls on psychotropic medications, potent drugs and toxic substances. The Health Ministry will insist on the adoption of this initiative by the end of the year, Murashko said. Medication-induced abortion is considered the safest method of terminating a pregnancy. It is performed using a group of drugs called antigestagens, which are administered only under medical supervision in healthcare facilities. According to the Health Ministry, the number of abortions decreased by 3.9% (16,213 cases) from 2021 to 2022, from 411,000 in 2021 to 395,000 in 2022. Russian officials have sought to encourage Russians to have more children and stepped up their rhetoric against abortion in recent months, as the country seeks to halt a demographic crisis exacerbated by the mass exodus of citizens abroad and the war in Ukraine. Despite several measures aimed at incentivizing childbirth, the country's birth rate remains below its death rate. [ad_2]

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happy pride month from russia with love!

Putin instructed the Russian health ministry to create a separate psychiatric institute for the study of LGBT people, as well as a number of other "behavioral areas, including social behavior."

This was stated by the Russian health minister Mikhail Murashko in response to the question of the Russian MP, journalist/freak Anatoly Wasserman during the first reading in the State Duma of the draft law on prohibiting transgender transition. Such an institute will be created on the basis of Serbsky State Research Center for Social and Forensic Psychiatry.

Wasserman asked if the Ministry of Health is working on research on "psychological and, if necessary, psychiatric methods” of bringing gender roles of LGBT people "in line with reality."

This may mean that research work is underway in Russia to introduce conversion therapy – a set of psychological and physical practices that are aimed at "correcting" a person's sexual orientation and gender identity.

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At a plenary meeting of Russia’s State Duma on Tuesday, Russian Health Minister Mikhail Murashko said that women should give birth as early in life as possible rather than pursuing their education and building careers.

“A belief has developed that a woman should first get an education and build a career and that only after that should she think about having children. Then a lot of problems arise,” Murashko said. “A woman should understand that the earlier she gives birth, the better.”

According to the minister, this “responsibility” should be explained to girls “in their school days” and should be promoted on Russia’s online government services portal. He said that postponing childbirth is a “depraved practice” that causes infertility and miscarriages.

Earlier this week, Murashko called for over-the-counter sales of emergency contraceptives to be restricted in Russia by the end of this year.

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Russian Mikhail Murashko start covid-19 vaccine this week

Russian Mikhail Murashko start covid-19 vaccine this week.

Covid-19 vaccination for Russians more than 60 may start one week from now. This was reported on Sunday, December 20, by the Minister of Health of the Russian Federation Mikhail Murashko. “Indeed, we trust so (immunization against the Covid of the old will start one week from now – Ed.),” He said in a meeting with the Vesti Nedeli program on the TV channel “Russia 1″… The pastor additionally…

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ரஷியாவில் மக்கள் பயன்பாட்டுக்கு கொரோனா தடுப்பூசி வினியோகம் தொடங்கியது - ரஷிய சுகாதார அமைச்சகம்

ரஷியாவில் மக்கள் பயன்பாட்டுக்கு கொரோனா தடுப்பூசி வினியோகம் தொடங்கியது – ரஷிய சுகாதார அமைச்சகம்

உ��கையே அச்சுறுத்திவரும் கொரோனா வைரஸ் பெருந்தொற்று நோயை தடுக்க ரஷியாவில் ஸ்புட்னிக்-5 என்ற தடுப்பூசி உருவாக்கப்பட்டுள்ளது.

அந்த நாட்டின் பாதுகாப்பு அமைச்சகமும், கமலேயா தேசிய தொற்றுநோயியல் மற்றும் நுண்ணுயிரியல் ஆராய்ச்சி மையமும் இணைந்து உருவாக்கியுள்ள இந்த தடுப்பூசியை ரஷியா முறைப்படி பதிவு செய்துள்ளது.

இந்த தடுப்பூசியை மனிதர்களுக்கு செலுத்தி சோதிக்கும் 3-வது மற்றும் இறுதிக்கட்ட மருத்துவ…

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Russia Rejects Safety Concerns; Medics To Get Anti-Covid Shots In 2 Weeks Russia Vaccine Update: Russia plans to have the ability to produce 5 million doses a month by December-January.