Russians shun Putin’s plea for more babies as population shrinks
The country's population is declining at its quickest pace since the Covid-19 pandemic. Read more at straitstimes.com.
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Russia's economy faces a demographic disaster and risks seeing its population reduced by half by the end of this century, think tank says
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 ...
Putin crony tells Russian women to ‘wear mini-skirts’ to stop population decline
Russian girls should wear mini skirts to meet boys like ‘in the 1970s’ because ‘no one bothered girls back then’, a Russian ...
Russia's Soaring Death Rate Blamed on 'War and Hard Liquor'
Georgy Filimonov, the governor of Russia's Vologda region, who also blames alcohol consumption for Russia's mortality rates, ...