To sustain its war against Ukraine, Russia militarized its economy. Although—contrary to popular belief abroad—the Russian economy is not on a full wartime footing, the Kremlin has both splurged on ...

Key Points and Summary – War deaths, mass emigration, and a collapsing birth rate are converging into a historic Russian ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin chairs a meeting via videoconference from the Novo-Ogaryovo residence outside Moscow on March 3. (Mikhail Metzel/AP) Russia is in a demographic death spiral. In the ...

Russia’s war in Ukraine has sparked a demographic crisis and labor shortage, fueled by military casualties, emigration, and a ...

Russia has moved to classify key demographic statistics following a dramatic collapse in its birth rate, which has plunged to levels not seen since the late 18th or early 19th century, according to a ...

Russia is in the midst of a historic population decline as it continues to grapple with low birth rates, high emigration, staggering health statistics and a deadly war in Ukraine. The growing crisis ...

Vladimir Putin poses with the children of Russian officers in Moscow on Nov. 4. Numerous factors have been floated to explain Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, including NATO’s ...

A member of the Russian State Duma has proposed releasing women convicted of minor charges from prisons so they can conceive, part of an effort to boost the country's low birthrate amid a period of ...

This content was produced in Russia where the law restricts coverage of Russian military operations in Ukraine MOSCOW, Aug 15 (Reuters) - Parallel imports to Russia, which Moscow launched in March to ...

On both sides of the Narva River, fishermen stand knee-deep in the water between two medieval castles just 101 meters apart.