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 ...

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

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." ...

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 ...

After years of warnings about Russia's demographic problems, the Kremlin is girding itself to take on an issue that is both politically fraught and fiscally critical: reforming the country's ...