In 2024, births in Russia fell to 1.22 million — the lowest level since 1999 — while deaths increased by 3.3% annually, to ...

The Russian economy is set to need 10 million workers by 2030 – a challenge made more daunting as the country's demographic ...

Vasily Astrov, expert on the Russian economy at the Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies, told Newsweek that ...

While Russia’s Central Bank celebrates a drop in inflation, its economy is showing severe signs of distress. -Crushing 20% ...

Russia needs to find the equivalent of 2 million workers a year over the next five years to fill vacancies left by people who ...

Moscow is "burning the candle at both ends" by loosening monetary policy to prop up growth and expanding wartime spending, ...

Russia is set to spend 6.3% of its GDP on defense this year — a post-Cold War high.

Russia's worker shortage is so bad the economy is leaning on the Soviet-era practice of using prison labor, think tank says Jennifer Sor Thu, Nov 23, 2023, 5:30 PM 2 min read ...

MOSCOW. Russia, despite achieving a significant drop in unemployment in recent years, is grappling with severe labor shortages exacerbated by its expanding defense industry amid the ongoing ...

Analysis-Russia's Labour Shortage Spreads as Defence Sector Poaches Staff. More. Reuters. FILE PHOTO: A general view of the city skyline at night in Moscow, Russia, September 17, 2024.

Facing a dire labour shortage in its industrial heartlands, Russia will import up to one million skilled Indian workers by ...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - "Bus number seven was not running this morning," Olga Slatina wrote on social media from the Sverdlovsk region in Russia's Ural Mountains. Heavy recruitment by the armed forces and ...