The continuing labour shortage has pushed up wages and increased inflation, which hit 9.9% earlier this year amid Western ...

The world’s population is expected to start shrinking this century. Political demographer Jennifer Sciubba says that’s no ...

EXCLUSIVE: Father Patrick Desbois said Putin's war "is undergirded by the lie that Ukrainians are Russian", and that the ...

Paying teenage girls to have babies while they are still in school is controversial in Russia. According to a recent survey ...

The success or failure of governments and societies that promote pronatalism hinges on their ability to persuade people – and especially women – to embrace parenthood. Along with financial incentives ...

The Russian economy is set to need 10 million workers by 2030 – a challenge made more daunting as the country's demographic ...

Around half of Russian citizens have no interest in trying the digital ruble, according to a survey which also found that ...

Mariano García Calatayud was arrested in 2022 by Kremlin agents in the Ukrainian city of Kherson, where he participated in street protests. With no news of his whereabouts for years, his family believ ...

On July 9, 2025, in the case of Ukraine and the Netherlands v. Russia, the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) held Russia ...

On average, Russians rest for 4 hours and 7 minutes a day, but residents of the North Caucasian republics have the most free time, analysts estimate. Khakassia, the Orel region and Moscow are also ...

The International Criminal Court says there are reasonable grounds to believe two Taliban leaders have committed the crime ...

What is a dissident? In an autocracy, standing against the rulers could mean harassment, prison, torture, even death.