Translation of Marat’s post from the Russian-language blog 

This is the question that I have been interested in since morning. So, I studied the statistical data and took the most recent published figures (which are for January-March 2007) and divided the number of divorces on the number of marriages. Here is the diagram (in Russian).

As you see, the patriarchal southern and western regions have fewer divorces, while there are significantly more of them in the northern and eastern parts of the country. The gap is as strong as 12 per cent in South Kazakhstan Oblast to 53 per cent in the Pavlodar (northern) Oblast. Besides, the number of divorces correlate with the natural increaseof population; also a lot depends on the region’s economic conditions.