Russia has grappled with a shrinking and aging population for decades, with President Vladimir Putin viewing it as a threat to national security.

Russia faces a deepening population crisis as birth rates decline and the population ages rapidly. President Vladimir Putin ...

Russia is missing around 5 million workers - one sign that the exodus of Russians is eating away at the nation's economic ...

A leaked document from the Russian Ministry of Defense revealed on Monday that the Russian Federation’s casualties in Ukraine in 2025 total more than 281,550. The report provided a breakdown of ...

Russia has been threatening Pokrovsk for more than a year. Instead of the full frontal assaults it used in earlier battles ...

At Kremlin conference on 23 October, President Vladimir Putin again called raising the birth rate “crucial” for Russia’s future ...

For a quarter century, President Vladimir Putin has faced the specter of Russia’s shrinking and aging population. In 1999, a year before he came to power, the number of babies born in Russia plunged ...

Putin launched initiatives to encourage people to have more children. New laws ban the promotion of abortion and "child-free ideology." ...