In 2024, births in Russia fell to 1.22 million — the lowest level since 1999 — while deaths increased by 3.3% annually, to ...

Vasily Astrov, expert on the Russian economy at the Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies, told Newsweek that ...

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

Confronted with heavy casualties in Ukraine and a wave of retirements, Russia is now struggling to find enough workers to ...

Russia needs to find the equivalent of 2 million workers a year over the next five years to fill vacancies left by people who ...

Officials have warned Russian President Vladimir Putin that a demographic crisis could mean the country he leads will be ...

Moscow is "burning the candle at both ends" by loosening monetary policy to prop up growth and expanding wartime spending, ...

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

Russia is set to spend 6.3% of its GDP on defense this year — a post-Cold War high.

Russia plans to hire one million Indian workers by year's end. This move addresses labour shortages in industrial regions ...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian Railways' cargo volumes slumped to a 15-year low in 2024, with labour and locomotive shortages exacerbating capacity woes as Moscow redirects trade flows to Asia from ...

Facing a dire labour shortage in its industrial heartlands, Russia will import up to one million skilled Indian workers by ...