Read More 3 minute read Latest news Ukraine Ukraine’s demographic crisis strains military as young men dwindle The exodus of 800,000 Ukrainian women of childbearing age to European Union nations since the war began has further compounded the problem. byOrysia Hrudka
Read More 2 minute read Opinion Russia Russia on course to suffer 400,000 more deaths than births in 2020, new Rosstat figures show The number of deaths rose to 783,800, 0.3% more than in the same period in 2019, while the… byPaul A. Goble
Read More 5 minute read International Opinion Moscow’s efforts to Russianize non-Russians will lead to demise of Russian nation and Russian state, Gyylman says Moscow believes that it will be able to “completely assimilate the nationalities of Russia” in this century by… byPaul A. Goble
Read More 2 minute read International Opinion Russian Aggression Is handing out passports in the Donbas Putin’s solution to Russia’s demographic collapse? Vladimir Putin’s decision to offer Russian citizenship to those living in Russian-occupied portions of Ukraine and possibly others… byPaul A. Goble
Read More 3 minute read International Opinion In post-Soviet countries, ethnic Russians are assimilating to titular nationalities, Kozlov says Something unprecedented is happening to ethnic Russians in many post-Soviet states, Vladimir Kozlov of Moscow’s Higher School of… byPaul A. Goble
Read More 3 minute read Crimea Opinion Deaths will exceed births in Crimea every year through 2035, Russian occupiers say The Crimean Statistical Agency (CSA), a branch of the Russian occupation authorities, says that deaths will exceed births… byPaul A. Goble
Read More 3 minute read Opinion Russia Three ways Kremlin contributing to Russia’s demographic crisis Most analysts in Russia and the West argue that changes in the size of the prime child-bearing cohort… byPaul A. Goble
Read More 2 minute read Opinion Russia Russia achieving ever more anti-records under Putin “There are achievements which it would be better not to have,” opposition Russian politician Gennady Gudkov says, and… byPaul A. Goble
Read More 3 minute read Opinion Russia Russia caught between economic decline and potentially explosive demographic change Russia’s economic development ministry says that the country’s GDP growth will be approximately half of one percent lower… byPaul A. Goble
Read More 2 minute read International Opinion Profound contraction of ethnic Russians in former Soviet republics since 1989 The number of ethnic Russians in what were the non-Russian republics of the former Soviet Union has fallen… byPaul A. Goble
Read More 2 minute read Opinion Russia Demographic decline powering rise of dedovshchina in Russian and Belarusian armies Dedovshchina, the Russian term for the mistreatment of more recent draftees and recruits by their seniors or of… byPaul A. Goble
Read More 2 minute read Opinion Russia Declining birthrates among Russians accelerating demographic decline, Rosstat figures show Rosstat, the Russian government’s statistics agency, reports that during the first four months of 2017, Russians gave birth… byPaul A. Goble
Read More 13 minute read Opinion Russia “Putin said to orchestrate Trump’s impeachment” and other neglected Russian stories The flood of news stories from a country as large, diverse and strange as the Russian Federation often… byPaul A. Goble
Read More 15 minute read Opinion Russia “Putin tells why Russia is seedbed of terrorism” and other neglected Russian stories The flood of news stories from a country as large, diverse and strange as the Russian Federation often… byPaul A. Goble
Read More 13 minute read Opinion Russia ‘3 million people fled from Russia-occupied Donbas’ and other neglected Russian stories The flood of news stories from a country as large, diverse and strange as the Russian Federation often… byPaul A. Goble
Read More 3 minute read Opinion Russia 10% decline in number of births in Russia frightens economists Just before the May holidays, Russia’s state statistical agency released figures on births, deaths and marriages that Moscow… byPaul A. Goble
Read More 14 minute read International More Putin is ‘a criminal but not Stalin’ and other neglected Russian stories The flood of news stories from a country as large, diverse and strange as the Russian Federation often… byPaul A. Goble
Read More 2 minute read International More Seven things Russians need to understand about their country and themselves now Many of the problems Russians now face are rooted in their firmly-held misconceptions about the nature of Russia… byPaul A. Goble
Read More 9 minute read International More Why did Putin say Russia’s prostitutes were ‘best in the world’ and other neglected Russian stories The flood of news stories from a country as large, diverse and strange as the Russian Federation often… byPaul A. Goble
Read More 7 minute read International More “Putin offers new lies for old” and other neglected Russian stories The flood of news stories from a country as large, diverse and strange as the Russian Federation often… byPaul A. Goble