After two years of military boom, paid for by record budget spending on the army since Soviet times, the Russian economy is ...
A wartime boom in Russia has given way to sluggish growth, tax hikes and squeezed public services. Will it affect the conflict in Ukraine?
During his December 2025 year-end press conference, Russian President Vladimir Putin acknowledged Russia's economic slowdown, ...
War is expensive, and when you wage a war of aggression, prompting some of the biggest economies in the world to then sanction your economy, it can really hurt. Last year, stories about a Russian ...
Russian leader Vladimir Putin has admitted that economic growth slowed to 1% in 2025 — well below the 1.5% forecast. Even as ...
Russian President Vladimir Putin acknowledges a significant economic slowdown to 1% in 2025, largely due to the ongoing war with Ukraine straining the country's economy.