Officials have warned Russian President Vladimir Putin that a demographic crisis could mean the country he leads will be ...

In 2024, births in Russia fell to 1.22 million — the lowest level since 1999 — while deaths increased by 3.3% annually, to ...

Russia’s president declared this recession will not stand. Like a comic-book villain — melodramatic and delusional — Vladimir ...

This issue received global media attention in 2006, when then-President Putin said in his state of the nation address that "The most urgent problem facing Russia is demographic crisis." ...

President Vladimir Putin is facing a serious demographic crisis which could plunge his country into economic chaos. Sanctions ...

Russia's demographic woes have become such a hot topic of late that President Vladimir Putin made it his highest priority during a recent national address. Russia faces both a low birthrate and ...

On Tuesday, Russia's interior ministry urged people in the border regions of Bryansk, Kursk, and Belgorod not to use dating ...

Since shortly after the dissolution of the Soviet Union, Russia has been struggling with a major demographic crisis. High infant mortality, low childbirth rates, and fleeing emigres have seen the ...

Russia, simply put, is facing a demographic crisis unprecedented in world history. ... The declaration in 2007 by then-President Vladimir Putin of a new national holiday—Family Contact Day ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin chairs a meeting via videoconference from the Novo-Ogaryovo residence outside Moscow on March 3. (Mikhail Metzel/AP) Russia is in a demographic death spiral. In ...

Far from the front, widespread alcoholism -- a leading killer of men -- has for years been plunging Russian demographics into the abyss. Yelena Matveyeva, a 58-year-old cleaner, knows this all too ...

Russia is paying schoolgirls to have babies in a bid to boost its plummeting birth rate, but experts say cash incentives alone can’t reverse the global fertility crisis. Here’s why pronatalist ...