Russian leader Vladimir Putin has admitted that economic growth slowed to 1% in 2025 — well below the 1.5% forecast. Even as ...

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

MOSCOW, Feb 4 (Reuters) - Russia's public deficit could balloon to almost triple the official target by end-2026 as a fall in ...

Russia’s economic strain is becoming harder to ignore as pressure from sanctions and high interest rates spreads across key sectors.

Russia has sold 71% of National Wealth Fund gold reserves to finance war. Budget deficit balloons 5x as oil revenue drops 22% ...

Russia and Ukraine are still fighting, still talking, and still testing how much strain their systems can take before something gives. The battlefield has frozen into lines, but the conflict itself ...

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

Vladimir Putin has ordered a "significant increase" in tax collection.

Even as President Donald Trump insists Russia has the upper hand in its war against Ukraine, economists say the country’s position is weaker than ever because the Kremlin has burned through most of ...

President Donald Trump made a bargain with India this week that introduced a simple calculus.

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Neoimperialism, Uninhibited Violence, and Global Civil War by Pablo Jiménez, from Insurgent Notes #25, January 2023.