New figures show that Russia's foreign trade surplus decreased by 15.9% in the first four months of 2025 compared to the same ...

The 1998 crisis worsened the situation, as a global recession and falling commodity prices led to fiscal imbalances and ...

It comes as businesses and consumers across Russia grapple with the effects of spiralling inflation and high interest rates.

Russia's economy is buckling under the financial weight of the war in Ukraine - despite the Kremlin's insistence of financial ...

A leading economist has been telling EU finance ministers that Russia’s economy is under growing strain as its invasion of ...

ANDREI YAKOVLEV is an Associate at Harvard University’s Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies and a Visiting Research ...

Putin’s predecessor, Boris Yeltsin, had become a walking punch line.​​ Russia was still reeling from the humiliation of ...

Venezuela’s economic crisis is worsening, with inflation expected to reach nearly 200% in 2025 Venezuela is turning to its geopolitical allies, Russia and China, to counter a deepening economic ...

While Russia seems reluctant to pursue peace now, increasing economic and military pressures at home — ranging from supplies of military hardware and recruitment of soldiers, to sanctions on ...

Russia is included in the zone of strategic interests of the United States, just as the United States entered the zone of ...