Russia's prison population has decreased by more than 180,000 inmates over five years, a decline partly driven by Moscow's ...

Russia’s prison population has fallen to 282,000 over the past four and a half years, the director of the Federal ...

Russia, which has a massive prison network inherited from Soviet labour camps, has one of the world's largest convict ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Children attend a school ceremony in St. Petersburg. (Irina Motina—Xinhua/Getty Images) The Russian population is shrinking at an ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Russia's population could shrink by half by the end of the century, an Atlantic Council report says. The Russia-Ukraine war has ...

For a quarter of a century, Russian president Vladimir Putin has grappled with his country’s declining and ageing population. The demographic crisis pre-dates his ascent to power, with the nation ...

Russia's birth rate hit a 25-year low in the first half of 2024, with 599,600 births. The demographic crisis worsened due to the Ukraine war, causing many to delay having children. Incentives like ...

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 the ...