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The IMF now expects Russia's economy to grow 0.9% in 2025, down from the 1.5% it had projected in April.
Both the Nordic and Central Asian blocs have more in common and more to learn from each other than meets the eye.
Lithuania's military selected Ukrainian acoustic detection technology over other systems to monitor drone activity, with deployment scheduled for 2026 after two Russian drones entered the country's ...
By Ben Aris in Berlin Inflation is falling faster than expected. That has allowed the Central Bank of Russia (CBR) put in 300 ...
New warnings emerge from Western analysts claiming that Russia’s economy is teetering on the brink of collapse. Allegations ...
Russia is set to spend 6.3% of its GDP on defense this year — a post-Cold War high.
Vasily Astrov, expert on the Russian economy at the Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies, told Newsweek that ...
Last year, the Russian economy grew 4.1%, according to the International Monetary Fund. But strains are showing, partly because Putin’s war has made Russia a pariah to foreign investors.
The Russian economy has been resilient After Putin's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, the United States and its allies slammed Russia with sanctions.
The sanctions were expected to crush the Russian economy, but they didn't. Putin put Russia on a wartime budget, and high defense spending kept unemployment low.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin has sacrificed an estimated 1 million of his soldiers, killed and wounded, in a three-year campaign to crush Ukraine.