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

According to Russian Labor Minister Anton Kotyakov, the country needs to find the equivalent of 2 million workers per year ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Putin has repeatedly called for an increase in Russia’s population. Four years ago, the president said it was the Russians’ “ historic duty ” to respond to the crisis. He repeated these ...