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

Officials have warned Russian President Vladimir Putin that a demographic crisis could mean the country he leads will be ...

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 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 ...

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.

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Belousov presented a "countdown" to a potential crisis in Russia. The report said that a potential downturn of the Russian economy could unfold between Q2 and Q3 2025 as a slowdown in economic ...

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 ...