That population pyramid above is from 2020, before Russia invaded Ukraine. If Russia had had as many babies in the 1990s that it had in the 1980s, there would be about 4 million more Russian men ...

Paying teenage girls to have babies while they are still in school is controversial in Russia. According to a recent survey ...

The continuing decline of the Russian population since 1991 is becoming an issue in the run-up to protracted fighting in Ukraine. In July, the number of births fell back to 1945 levels.

Russia has moved to classify key demographic statistics following a dramatic collapse in its birth rate, which has plunged to levels not seen since the late 18th or early 19th century, according ...

Freshly married to a policeman, office manager Angelina Alexeyeva has been motivated by President Vladimir Putin's plea for ...

The shape of "Russia's population pyramid" means "the birthrate is almost destined to decline," Brent Peabody wrote at Foreign Policy in January. Putin has said he's haunted by that fact, ...

In his recent state of the nation address, President Vladimir Putin said the most urgent problem facing Russia is its demographic crisis. The country's population is declining by at least 700,000 ...

President Vladimir Putin openly admits that demographics present Russia with one of its most serious challenges. U.S. experts believe that even without taking into account the effects of the war ...

Russia is looking to grow the size of its armed forces to 1.5 million by the end of 2026. According to the Russian population census of 2020–2021, the number of men 18–26 years old in Russia ...