Russia's economy faces a demographic disaster and risks seeing its population reduced by half by the end of this century, think tank says

"Putin's government has not evinced visible concern that Russia's population might be cut in half by century's end," an Atlantic Council report says. Read More

Russia’s Red-Hot Economy Passed Its Peak With Future Unclear

Growth in Russia’s wartime economy has passed its peak after overheating in the first half of the year, according to analysts, even amid robust military production to support the ongoing war in ... Read More

Russia Raises Interest Rate to 21 Percent, Its Highest in Decades

Military spending and recruitment are causing the country’s economy to overheat, leaving regulators in a struggle to rein in rising prices. Read More

Russia's central bank raises interest rate to 21% to fight inflation boosted by military spending

Russia’s central bank has raised its key interest rate by two percentage points to a record-high 21% in an effort to combat growing inflation ... Read More

China's Great Wall to expand Russia car production in 2025, Russian papers report

Chinese carmaker Great Wall Motors is expanding the capacity of its assembly line in Russia to 200,000 cars from next year, seeking to expand its share of Russia's recovering car market, two Russian ... Read More

Russia's economy is signaling a fate worse than recession

Though Russia's economy has prospered under its wartime boom, sanctions, production-output limitations, and a severe labor crunch are bound to wear it down by 2025. Related stories The policy ... Read More

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Russia’s Warming ... the United States and its allies to increase their naval presence in the region. Military spending and recruitment are causing the country’s economy to overheat, leaving ... Read More

Russia to hike defence spending by a quarter in 2025

In last year’s draft, the government planned to reduce defence spending by 21 percent in 2025. The reversal shows the scale of state ... defence industry enterprises,” Russia’s Ministry ... Read More

Russia's August GDP up 2.4% y/y, says economy ministry

MOSCOW, Oct 2 (Reuters) - Russia's gross domestic product (GDP) grew by 2.4% year-on-year in August, down from the revised 3.5% annual increase recorded in the previous month, the economy ministry ... Read More

Russia cements its ‘war economy’ status with military spending hikes

so the budget on its face doesn’t seem “precarious,” Russia economy expert Alexander Kolyandr wrote in The Spectator. But the country’s new war economy is still growing beyond its means ... Read More

Russia's economy faces a demographic disaster and risks seeing its population reduced by half by the end of this century, think tank says

Russia's economy has a dire demographic problem on its hands, and the nation could see its population slashed in half by the end of the century, an Atlantic Council report says. The report from ... Read More