Strong domestic demand, resilient services and manufacturing sectors, and ongoing infrastructure investments have been cited ...

Russia’s central bank, led by Governor Elvira Nabiullina, has kept its key interest rate very high at 21%. This rate makes ...

The chances of a banking crisis in Russia have increased amid high interest rates, a Kremlin-linked think tank has warned.

The wage growth of newly hired Russian workers is slowing down. In recent months, the economy under Vladimir Putin has lost ...

Russia seems reluctant to pursue peace at the moment as the country is widely believed to be planning a new summer offensive ...

While Russia seems reluctant to pursue peace now, increasing economic and military pressures at home — ranging from supplies ...

Russia’s economic growth has slowed drastically in the first quarter of 2025. Source: The Moscow Times, citing Russia’s Ministry of Economic Development Details: Between January and March ...

And the slowdown is set to be exacerbated by a ... Putin urged his economic officials last month not to freeze the Russian economy as if it were in a "cryotherapy chamber" with their tight ...

The slowdown is worrying for the Kremlin but not serious enough to significantly hobble its war effort. By Anatoly Kurmanaev Reporting from Berlin The wartime economy that Russia spurred into ...

Russia’s overheating economy fueled by massive Kremlin spending on its invasion of Ukraine may be about to cool sharply amid mounting constraints on key sectors that have bolstered growth until now.

For the first time since 2009—low point of the global economic slowdown—Russia is in recession. Its economy will contract 3 percent this year, though Moscow’s $360 billion in cash reserves ...

but that hides a persistent slowdown in the rate of growth. And although sanctions imposed over Ukraine have grabbed the headlines, the truth is that economic weakness in Russia is homegrown.