The list of instructions was published on the Kremlin website following a May 29, 2026 meeting of the presidential Council for the Implementation of State Demographic and Family Policy. Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin was named responsible for carrying them out.
The government is to prepare proposals by December 15 on "ensuring priority indexing by search engines of information resources providing social support to women in a situation of reproductive choice" when users search for information about pregnancy termination services. Federation Council Speaker Valentina Matviyenko had previously put forward a similar initiative, The Moscow Times reported.
Other instructions include adding a vaccine against the human papillomavirus to the national preventive vaccination schedule, using a domestically produced vaccine. The registration of Russia's first HPV vaccine, Tsegardeks, became known in late September. The Industrial Development Fund said it planned to produce up to 600,000 doses by the end of the year. The drug is registered for use in children and adults aged 9 to 45 and, according to the manufacturer, protects against virus types 6, 11, 16 and 18.
Putin also ordered information and awareness work to instill in men a culture of regular visits to doctors on reproductive health, and measures to make care for male reproductive system pathologies more accessible at the primary care level.
A separate item concerns the wives of war participants: the government is to consider additional measures of social and psychological support during pregnancy and childbirth in cases where the husband is absent.
In addition, the government is to consider rolling out in the regions Mordovia's experience of creating a taxi fleet for passengers with children at a fixed rate. Another item is changes to the terms of the "Family Mortgage" program for large families, including differentiating the maximum loan size depending on the number of children.
Restrictions on abortion information are being introduced by other means as well. Prosecutors have begun filing lawsuits to block materials about pregnancy termination, and courts have already granted some of them. Sections describing medication abortion and contraindications were removed from the websites of three private clinics - Edis Med Ko, Dobromed and DeVita, Verstka reported. In 2025 the word "abortion" began to be muted on television, although there is no legal ban on saying it.
After the start of the war in Ukraine, 30 regions adopted laws banning "abortion inducement," with fines provided for in 24 of them. The Health Ministry banned performing the procedure in hospitals without an operating room and round-the-clock duty by an anesthesiologist-resuscitator. At the end of 2025 the ministry reported a 5% reduction in the number of abortions, to 321,000 cases.