President Vladimir Putin stated during his annual year-end press conference that Russia's birth rate coefficient stands at ...

By Ben Aris in Berlin Russian President Vladimir Putin has been focused on dealing with Russia’s demographic crisis from his ...

Russia has warned against using dating apps in border regions amid Ukraine's incursion. Russian authorities cited security concerns, saying Ukraine was using apps to gather intelligence. Russia faces ...

The Russia-Ukraine war has accelerated the population decline. A shrinking population threatens Russia's economy and could result in worker shortages and low growth. Russia's economy has a dire ...

The country’s fertility rate was 1.4 births per woman in 2023, according to the most recent UN statistics. That’s well below ...

The Russian population is shrinking at an alarming rate, which could change the fabric of its society. The country recorded its lowest birth rate in the past 25 years for the first six months of 2024, ...

Running short of soldiers, Russia is turning to novel, long range societal fixes: restricting abortions, banning gay groups, and pardoning female inmates who conceive during marital visits. The ...

Freshly married to a policeman, office manager Angelina Alexeyeva has been motivated by President Vladimir Putin's plea for Russians to have more children, part of the Kremlin's ultra-patriotic drive ...

Russian chemist and thinker Dmitry Mendeleev, the father of the Periodic Table, calculated at the turn of the 20th century that Russia’s population would be over 500 million people in 2001 MOSCOW, ...