For a quarter century, President Vladimir Putin has faced the specter of Russia's shrinking and aging population. In 1999, a year before he came to power, the number of babies born in Russia plunged ...

Russia is in the midst of a historic population decline as it continues to grapple with low birth rates, high emigration, staggering health statistics and a deadly war in Ukraine. The growing crisis ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a federal law suspending part of the All-Russian Population Census. According to some sources, this measure is intended to hide Russian society from the ...

Russia could face a decline of its population by more than 10 percent over the next two decades, according to figures released by its Federal State Statistics Service. Rosstat's prediction follows ...