The Soviet Union’s 1979 invasion of Afghanistan, which resulted in heavy casualties and a humiliating climbdown, was a ...

How close is Russia’s economy to collapse ... 39.5 per cent and potatoes by 25 per cent. The Russian ruble has lost over half of its value since Putin first invaded Crimea in 2014, and over ...

Putin has expressed concerns about an escalating "economic crisis" while speaking at a virtual meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization. The Russian leader's remarks to the summit security ...

A Russian economist has warned that the country may slide into "stagflation" by the end of the year if its leaders don't take ...

Putin’s financial lifeline has his merciless cannibalization of Russian economic productivity. He has been burning the living room furniture to fuel his battles in Ukraine, but that is now ...

"Cracks have started to emerge" in the Russian economy as Putin's labour force begins to run dry, it has been warned. In October, interest rates were raised to to a 21-year high of 21% to curb ...

Russia’s war economy is under rising internal pressure. With growth slowing and diplomacy stalled, Putin may soon face a ...

The trade surplus is largely due to the collapse ... the Russian economy is only 10% the size of that of its powerful neighbor and lags behind technologically, so Vladimir Putin risks becoming ...

According to the head of state, the Russian business has ... has to be done for the national economy to become a safe haven, Russian President Vladimir Putin said at the congress of the Russian ...

In Putin’s current calculus, the specter of a sovereign, self-reliant Ukraine poses a far graver threat to Russia than the more distant prospect of economic degradation. If Western capitals cannot ...

TASS/. Russian President Vladimir Putin has asserted that Russia’s economic growth relies on the strengthening of sovereignty, while sovereignty itself is the result of economic growth.