Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Children attend a school ceremony in St. Petersburg. (Irina Motina—Xinhua/Getty Images) The Russian population is shrinking at an ...

For a quarter of a century, Russian president Vladimir Putin has grappled with his country’s declining and ageing population. The demographic crisis pre-dates his ascent to power, with the nation ...

In the next 50 years, Russia's population will decline by 25%, according to demographic forecasts. The main reason is the war, which has already cost Russia more than a million citizens, according to ...

For a quarter century, President Vladimir Putin has faced the specter of Russia’s shrinking and aging population. In 1999, a year before he came to power, the number of babies born in Russia plunged ...

For a quarter century, President Vladimir Putin has faced the specter of Russia’s shrinking and aging population. In 1999, a year before he came to power, the number of babies born in Russia plunged ...

Russia could face a decline of its population by more than 10 percent over the next two decades, according to figures released by its Federal State Statistics Service. Rosstat's prediction follows ...

Russia has moved to classify key demographic statistics following a dramatic collapse in its birth rate, which has plunged to levels not seen since the late 18th or early 19th century, according to a ...