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ISW: Economic limitations will likely hinder Kremlin’s fight against demographic decline

Regional initiatives to boost Russia's population through maternity payments confront economic limitations, with the Central Bank defending high interest rates.

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ISW: Kremlin policies signal Putin’s growing concern over long-term economic stability

Kremlin policies, including 21% interest rates and long-term population growth plans, underscore concerns over Russia's defense industry and workforce.

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Labor shortage in Russia “almost certainly” worst in decades – UK Defense Ministry

In its latest intelligence update, the UK Defense Ministry says Russia is facing its worst labor shortage in…

Annual working-age population growth rates worldwide 2015-2020 (Sources: HSBC, UN Population Division data)

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Latinization of Ukrainian and Belarusian threatens Moscow’s ability to address Russia’s demographic crisis, Khavich says

If Ukraine and Belarus shift from the Cyrillic-based alphabets they now use to Latin scripts, they will not…

byPaul A. Goble

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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

Russian Federation population growth/decline over 1985-2019

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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…

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The Pomors, an ethnicity composing modern-day Russians. Photo circa 1900.

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Moscow has long sought to destroy Slavic languages other than Russian, Zolotaryev says

The Russian government’s efforts to undermine and push out of general use Turkic and Finno-Ugric languages are well-known,…

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Annual working-age population growth rates worldwide 2015-2020 (Sources: HSBC, UN Population Division data)

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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…

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Three pieces of very bad economic news for Putin

Vladimir Putin may not have been able to use the 2018 FIFA World Cup to distract Russians sufficiently…

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Putin the TV Puppet Master (Image: Zina Saunders)

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‘Chief beneficiary’ of Putin’s aggression in Ukraine and Syria is Moscow TV, new poll shows

There have been innumerable surveys of Russian attitudes over the last decade, but most of them have been…

byPaul A. Goble

The regional distribution of self-identified ethnic Ukrainians in the Russian Federation, as percentage of population (Source: 2010 Russian Federation census)

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Ukrainian nation disappearing in Russia, Kyiv ethnographer says

The once large Ukrainian nation within the borders of what is now the Russian Federation is rapidly disappearing,…

byPaul A. Goble

His former commanders left this Russian soldier's corpse in the Ukrainian soil near Luhansk, at a site of the Russo-Ukrainian war in the Donbas, Ukraine (Image: RadioSvoboda.org)

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Russian military having serious problems retaining contract soldiers, new data show

Vladimir Putin said this week that he remains committed to moving to an all-volunteer military, even though budgetary…

byPaul A. Goble

The grave digger wearing a t-shirt of Russia's ruling party "United Russia." (Image: social media)

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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…

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The Putin regime has been using ethnically non-Russian troops for its aggression in Ukraine (Image: social media)

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Clash between Tuvin and ethnic Russian soldiers at Russian training academy turns violent

Sixty ethnic Tuvin professional soldiers clashed with about 100 ethnic Russian professional soldiers at a sergeants training academy…

byPaul A. Goble

Despite their disastrous condition, these poorly-maintained public housing buildings surrounded by trash heaps and debris in Russian provinces are still occupied by families who can't afford to live anywhere else. Arkhangelsk, Russia, July 2015 (Image: Ilya Varlamov)

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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

A city of the future. An architectural fantasy from the series of works by G. N. Gaman-Gamon titled "The USSR in the Year of 2001" he completed in the 1950s and 1960s. (Image: marhi.ru)

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Russian experts: In 20 years, Moscow will have 35 million residents, a third of them Muslims

The population of the Moscow agglomeration by 2035 will reach 35 million, of whom 25 to 30 percent…

byPaul A. Goble

The grave digger wearing a t-shirt of Russia's ruling party "United Russia." (Image: social media)

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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…

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Dedovshchina in the Soviet military (Image: rfrm.io)

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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…

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The grave digger wearing a t-shirt of Russia's ruling party "United Russia." (Image: social media)

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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

Donald Trump denies being open to kompromat blackmail by the Kremlin (Political cartoon by Felix Schaad / Tages-Anzeiger)

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“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