By Ben Aris in Berlin Russia’s economy has been battered by sanctions and high inflation, but there is no chance of a major ...

"Putin's choice of timing for military aggression in Ukraine might have reflected an understanding that Russia's demographic ...

The Austrian energy company OMV has been in dispute with the Kremlin-owned Gazprom over disruptions to gas supplies in the ...

The price of potatoes - a staple of the Russian diet - have increased by 64 percent this year, according to the latest ...

Continuing the war means the economy faces stagnation, while ending it would shut off the massive defense spending that's ...

A September report from the Stockholm Institute of Transition Economics argues that while Russia will not face a “full-blown” ...

The current Russian birth rate is 1.5 children per woman, compared with 1.8 per woman in the U.S. A birth rate of 2.1 is ...

Russia may stand a better chance at sustaining its war economy than previously thought. That's according to Vladislav Inozemtsev, an exiled Russian economist who thinks the chances of an economic ...

That proximity has irked China, North Korea’s main backer. Chinese officials fear that Russia’s influence over the insular ...

With both France and Germany led by minority governments, the continent’s key powers are likely to be consumed by domestic ...

Ukraine, whose defense against Russia is heavily dependent on U.S. military, financial, and diplomatic support, may feel the effects more than any other foreign country. Read the story by Todd ...

Russia's overheated economy is almost certainly headed for a crisis no matter what Vladimir Putin does, according to a Ukrainian economist. Alexander Mertens, a professor of finance and economics ...