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

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

On Tuesday, Russia's interior ministry urged people in the border regions of Bryansk, Kursk, and Belgorod not to use dating ...

Russia’s president declared this recession will not stand. Like a comic-book villain — melodramatic and delusional — Vladimir ...

President Vladimir Putin is facing a serious demographic crisis which could plunge his country into economic chaos. Sanctions ...

The continuing labour shortage has pushed up wages and increased inflation, which hit 9.9% earlier this year amid Western ...

Russia is paying schoolgirls to have babies in a bid to boost its plummeting birth rate, but experts say cash incentives alone can’t reverse the global fertility crisis. Here’s why pronatalist ...

Freshly married to a policeman, office manager Angelina Alexeyeva has been motivated by President Vladimir Putin's plea for Russians to have more children, part of the Kremlin's ultra-patriotic ...

Rosstat, Russia's statistics agency, has not released data on deaths this year, according to an independent Russian outlet.

Russia has had similar troughs in its demographics during World War II and after the fall of the Soviet Union—but things are different this time.

“Putin understands that, in the world of tomorrow, Russia will be a territorial giant and population dwarf.” ...