While Putin’s said in 2005 that the retirement age would not be raised as long as he was president, the Russian government has decided to raise the retirement age 8 years to age 63 for women ...

Russian Communist party supporters carry a banner reading "55 - and no minute more" as they take part in a rally against the government's proposed reform hiking the pension age in Moscow, Sept. 2 ...

Statement about recent pension reform in Russia written by the Krasnoyarsk Marxist Workers’ Group.

The pension reform will mean that many older people, unable to find work and ineligible to receive a pension, will become unemployed and entirely dependent on their family and friends helping them ...

Russian officials have held out the tantalizing possibility they might allow a national referendum on the government's much-hated proposal to raise retirement ages. But is it a red herring?

This is how the Kremlin enacts an unpopular economic reform: deny responsibility, declare its inevitability and, yes, distract the public with a popular sporting event.

Russian companies, against the backdrop of a labour shortage, have started to recruit workers aged over 50 en masse. In January-May, the number of such job offers was almost twice as high as last year ...

On Tuesday, August 21, the Russian parliament (Duma) held a hearing that made clear it is pushing forward with a deeply unpopular pension reform that would raise the retirement age for men from 60 ...

Russia pension reform: Small-town opposition gathers as Kremlin gets nervous Opposition to plans to raise retirement age most acute in small industrial towns like Angarsk, Siberia, but authorities ...

Raquel Pichardo-Allison talks to Pavel Teplukhin, president of Troika Dialog Asset Management, about the state of Russia's pension reform five years after the second pillar went into force Raquel ...

Mr. Macron wants to reform a pension system that consumes some 14% of its gross domestic product and is becoming less sustainable every year as the ratio of active workers and current retirees ...

Hundreds of people were arrested in Russia on Sunday while participating in protests against pension reform.