Brendan Cole is a Newsweek Senior News Reporter based in London, UK. His focus is Russia and Ukraine, in particular the war started by Moscow. He also covers other areas of geopolitics including ...

Russia's economy is facing "hypothermia" risks, Economy Minister Maxim Reshetnikov said on Monday as he urged the central bank to take slowing inflation into account when it meets to set interest ...

Russia’s successes on the front lines in Ukraine ... Some of his neighbors fear the success of the war machine now driving its economy means he never will. In the early stages of the war ...

Russia’s economy is currently grappling with a series of mounting threats, including a potential banking crisis, sluggish economic growth, and the closure of numerous companies, as the country ...

Since the country’s fullscale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, that economy has certainly suffered. Sanctions on Russia have already led to a depreciation of the rouble, high inflation, very high ...

Russia's central bank on Friday cut its key interest rate to 20 percent -- down from a two-decade high of 21 percent -- as the economy slows and officials say months of rapid price rises are ...

MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russia's economy is facing "hypothermia" risks, Economy Minister Maxim Reshetnikov said on Monday as he urged the central bank to take slowing inflation into account when it ...