In 2024, births in Russia fell to 1.22 million — the lowest level since 1999 — while deaths increased by 3.3% annually, to ...

Russia’s economy is teetering on the brink of recession after nearly 45 months of war in Ukraine, with top officials now ...

Overview Nearly two decades after the fall of the Soviet Union, the character of Russia, its principal successor state, remains unresolved. ... The Russian Economic Crisis, ...

Russia’s toughest economic challenge since the collapse of 1998 could lead it to a less confrontational foreign policy and a loss of international standing, writes CFR’s Stephen Sestanovich.

Russia’s coal industry has slipped into crisis under the weight of high borrowing costs and sanctions as slowing demand in ...

Russia faces a crisis whether it continues the war or not, economist Alexander Mertens says. He pointed to signs of economic distress like high inflation and interest rates.

Russia’s economic crisis could spark a brain drain. More young Russians are reportedly trying to emigrate. Today’s problems could set the stage for a long-term decline in Russia’s prosperity ...

This could lead to overdue debt on small loans and restructuring of debt on large loans, leading to a "creeping crisis" in the economy. Russia's key interest rate is at 16 percent but inflation is ...

Economic Crisis will be Long and Painful. Defaults will push Russia even faster toward an economic crisis that will be far worse than the 1998 crisis. In the mid-1990s, ...

Russia faces a crisis whether it continues the war or not, economist Alexander Mertens says. He pointed to signs of economic distress like high inflation and interest rates. War spending has been ...

A European subsidiary of Sberbank, Russia's largest bank, said it has experienced "significant outflows of deposits in a very short time," CNBC reported. The country last faced a major cash crisis ...

With its fortunes tethered to volatile natural gas and oil prices, Russia has suffered record inflation and unemployment in the global financial crisis. In the second of her series of reports from ...