Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Children attend a school ceremony in St. Petersburg. (Irina Motina—Xinhua/Getty Images) The Russian population is shrinking at an ...

Russia, which has a massive prison network inherited from Soviet labour camps, has one of the world's largest convict ...

Russia’s prison population has fallen to 282,000 over the past four and a half years, the director of the Federal ...

Russia's prison population has decreased by more than 180,000 inmates over five years, a decline partly driven by Moscow's ...

Russia's economy has a dire demographic problem on its hands, and the nation could see its population slashed in half by the end of the century, an Atlantic Council report says. The report from the ...

For a quarter of a century, Russian president Vladimir Putin has grappled with his country’s declining and ageing population. The demographic crisis pre-dates his ascent to power, with the nation ...

Russia's birth rate hit a 25-year low in the first half of 2024, with 599,600 births. The demographic crisis worsened due to the Ukraine war, causing many to delay having children. Incentives like ...

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 ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a federal law suspending ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Russia's population could shrink by half by the end of the century, an Atlantic Council report says. The Russia-Ukraine war has ...