Russians in the Nizhny Novgorod Oblast receive one million rubles (about $10,000) for the birth of each child they have, ...

The report from the Washington, DC, think tank — written by Harley Balzer, a professor emeritus at Georgetown University — points to Russia's long-running population decline. The nation's ...

The Russian government has faced increasing demographic challenges, especially since the war in Ukraine began in early 2022.

TASS/. The natural population decline in Russia from January to August 2023 shrank by 24% year-on-year and amounted to 319,000 people, the Federal Statistics Service (Rosstat) said on its website.

During his end-of-year press conference on Thursday, Vladimir Putin was asked what his administration plans to do if Russia’s ...

In February Putin told workers at a tank factory in the Urals that Russian families had to have at least two children to ...

Against the backdrop of a long-standing Russian demographic crisis, where the population is shrinking and ageing, Vladimir Putin’s solution is to push for the return to what the Kremlin calls ...

"Putin spent years racing against Russia's demographic clock, only to order an invasion of Ukraine that's consigning his country's population to a historic decline," Bloomberg News reports.

Russian president Vladimir Putin has come up with another plan to combat Russia's rapidly declining birth rate and has formed a council.