Russia continuously upgrades its Geran (Shahed) drones to beat Ukrainian defenses, but rising costs now exceed cheap ...

The new reality has forced the Kremlin to raise taxes and increase debt, and hovers over peace talks with Ukraine.

Russia’s leadership is publicly promising a technological transformation under pressure from sanctions and war.

Russia's defense spending has surged, burdening the economy as sanctions strain resources and borrowing increases to fund military costs.

Russia’s economy is slowing sharply, with the highest interest rates in two decades driving up debt levels as the world’s ...

RIGA - War and economic militarization in Russia have created a circle of politically and economically interested individuals who benefit from military action, and this will make it difficult to ...

Despite claims of success in Ukraine, new CSIS data shows that Russia is paying an extraordinary price for minimal gains, ...

The share of Russian companies that view the domestic economy positively fell to just 4% in January, a sharp drop from 14% in ...

These cases point to a general pattern. Economic pressure tends to matter in war only when it triggers one of three outcomes: the collapse of a state’s capacity to fight, the fragmentation of the ...

MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russia sees economic growth in 2025 slowing to 1.5%, far below the earlier 2.5% forecast, as high interest rates imposed to reduce inflation have stifled borrowing, Finance Minister ...

First assembled by Iran in the 2010s, the loose fleet that exclusively ships oil under Western embargo has more than doubled ...

MOSCOW (Reuters) -The Kremlin on Wednesday pushed back at U.S. President Donald Trump's warning that the Russian economy was going to collapse, saying that Russia had considerable reserves and was ...