Although Rosstat has decided to keep the data secret until 2025, many independent demographers believe that the decline in ...

For a quarter of a century, President Vladimir Putin has grappled with Russia's declining and ageing population. The demographic crisis predates his ascent to power, with the nation recording its ...

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 ...

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 ...

Russia’s demographic decline, turbocharged by the war in Ukraine, has given birth to “one of the world’s most extreme natalism campaigns – and one of the weirdest”, said The Atlantic. The country’s ...