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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
‘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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
“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…
“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…