The Russian economy has found itself in its worst state since the beginning of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine due to a ...

Problems in the oil sector, a possible banking crisis and consumer woes lie ahead for Russia’s economy as prices for Russian ...

Russia’s economy is “close to stagnation,” but still capable of funding the war in Ukraine for years, according to former ...

The Russian economy has been dealing with growing headwinds this year: unruly inflation, a ballooning budget deficit and shrinking energy revenues. But analysts say the Kremlin could weather the storm ...

2025 offered the most generous potential off-ramp for Vladimir Putin. He rejected it.

Russians are starting to notice. In a recent survey, says Vladimir Zvonovsky, a sociologist in the Russian city of Samara, ...

Russia’s war economy is not collapsing, but neither is it stable. It survives by pushing strain into the future – into labour ...

By Ben Aris in Berlin Is Russia close to collapse? Russia vs US wartime budget deficits One of the EC executive assumptions for wanting to extend the war in Ukraine by two years is they seem to ...

An economic slowdown in Russia this year to 1% growth from 4.3% in 2024 was the result of conscious actions by the central ...

Russia saw a surge in consumer spending after its 2022 invasion of Ukraine, even as sweeping sanctions hit the economy.

Military spending also reveals another Russian tradition, corruption in military procurement. Corruption is less tolerated and more frequently punished in the civilian economy. Military production ...

According to a popular legend, in 1787, the Russian general Grigory Potemkin built elaborate but fake villages along the ...