So, for the first half of 2018 in Russia registered 295 471 divorce. For January-June 2008, there were 345,827 divorces registered.
Professor Alexander Shcherbakov, professor of the chair of labor and social policy at the Institute for Public Administration and Management of the Russian Academy of Science, believes that the reason for this decline is not only due to a reduction in the number of marriages for the period, but also to an increase in the standard of living in the country.
"Regarding the 1990s and early 2000s, the situation changed for the better, the marriage became more valuable than during the period of instability," he noted.
Earlier Rosstat said that for the first six months of 2018 the number of marriages contracted by 7.2% compared to the same period in 2017.