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 ...

Key Points and Summary - War deaths, mass emigration, and a collapsing birth rate are converging into a historic Russian demographic shock. -Casualties concentrated among 30–39-year-old men, plus the ...

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

A solution to the war in Ukraine can be found "pretty quickly" if three issues that are important to Russia are taken into account, according to Kirill Dmitriev, a Kremlin special envoy and CEO of the ...

The Kremlin is focusing its fire on Pokrovsk, a gateway to the Donetsk region, which Russia’s president, Vladimir V. Putin, ...

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." ...