A new report suggests that Russia’s economic strength is “misleading” as the country, under heavy Western financial sanctions ...

In monthly terms, this means consumer prices increased by 0.4%, going by figures from the Federal Statistics Service. Reports ...

In contrast, Russia — like much of the world — faced a credit crunch due to the fallout from the US subprime mortgage crisis in 2008, which ultimately led to the Global Financial Crisis.

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

Becker also urged Trump to hit Russia’s financial system by restricting international transactions. “If something ruins an economy pretty quickly, it’s a banking crisis,” he said.

Russia's Central Bank has dismissed claims ... the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 and the country's financial crisis in 1998, in which many Russians lost their life savings.

Russia was in demographic decline long before the war in Ukraine. Now it’s in free fall.

But that understanding fractured in 2010 as the global financial crisis swept across Europe ... a period that coincided with the pandemic and Russia’s invasion and which concludes at the ...