Vladimir Putin is scrambling to contain soaring egg prices as Russia grapples with a Soviet-style economic headache

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Vladimir Putin looking at meat on display at a supermarket in Moscow in June 2009.
Vladimir Putin looks at meat on display in a Moscow supermarket in June 2009.

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Russia's economy is paralyzed, and Putin's war machine survives on cannibalizing state-owned firms, Yale researchers say

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Russian President Vladimir Putin.

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Russia's latest headache is a housing bubble

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Russian President Vladimir Putin.

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Russia is wrestling with a labor crisis — and is making it even worse by sending highly-skilled workers to war

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People carrying luggage walk past the Russian side of the border toward the Nizhniy Lars customs checkpoint between Georgia and Russia on September 25, 2022.

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Russia's worker shortage is so bad the economy is leaning on the Soviet-era practice of using prison labor, think tank says

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Security worker walks by the gate of a penal colony in Vladimir, Russia.

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Russia rolls out currency controls in a bid to revive the ruble, which has cratered against the dollar this year

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Russia brought back some currency controls late Wednesday, in a bid to prop up the slumping ruble.

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Russia is using China's yuan to settle 25% of its trade with the rest of the world, report says

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Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping attend a reception at the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia March 21, 2023.
Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping attending a reception at the Kremlin in March.

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Russia hikes rates to 13% in scramble to lower inflation and prop up the sagging ruble

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Russian President Vladimir Putin takes part in a news conference after an EU-Russia Summit in Brussels January 28, 2014. Putin said on Tuesday it would honor its obligations to lend Ukraine $15 billion and reduce its gas prices even if the opposition formed the next government.

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Russia is getting richer again, thanks to soaring oil prices

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Russian President Vladimir Putin.

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There are 5 things the West could do to put even more pressure on Russia's struggling economy, think tank says

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Russia's economy has been buffered by attempts to evade West's economic sanctions, according to researchers from a US-based think tank.

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