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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin is once again trying to seize through political backchanneling what he has failed to capture ...

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 ...

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

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

1.197 mln infants were born in January - November 2022, down 6.8% in annual terms MOSCOW, January 13. /TASS/. Natural loss of the population was 41,700 in November 2022, down 3.4 times in annual terms ...

About one million infants were born in January - October 2022, while 1.5 mln persons died in the same period of this year MOSCOW, December 9. /TASS/. Natural loss of the population was 38,100 ...