Today's guest is Dr. Leslie Root, a postdoctoral scholar in the Department of Demography at UC Berkeley. Dr. Root recently completed "Fertility in Transition in 21st-Century Russia," a dissertation on childbearing and fertility changes over the course of the Putin era in Russia.

Follow Leslie on Twitter here, and visit her website here.

Music and audio for "The Russia Guy":

• Олег Анофриев, Бременские музыканты, “Говорят, мы бяки-буки”
• Счастье вдруг (из х/ф Иван Васильевич меняет профессию)

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