Under strain from war, Russia plans a massive layoff in its public sector: report

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Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a bill last month to cut staff in some government agencies by 10%.

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Russia's mass advantage against Ukraine should start declining by 2025, war expert says

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The impact of Ukraine's surprise Kursk battle and Russian efforts to counter it turn on the strained Russian railroad network.
Russia may not run out of weapons and men anytime soon, but it can't sustain its level of aggression for long, Michael Kofman said.

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Russia would need to spend 6% of its entire 2024 budget to pay wounded soldiers and families of dead troops, 2 researchers estimate

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Russian President Vladimir Putin visits servicemen who were wounded during the Russian war in Ukraine, at a military hospital in Moscow on May 25, 2022.
Russian President Vladimir Putin visits servicemen who were wounded during the Russian war in Ukraine, at a military hospital in Moscow on May 25, 2022.

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The US and the West are facing the blowback of sanctions against Russia, economist says

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Putin wants to crack down on immigration after the Moscow attack. That would make the nation's labor shortage even worse.

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The US is pressuring the biggest Western bank in Russia to cancel a $1.6 billion industrial investment

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A man walks past the logo of Raiffeisen bank seen atop a building behind a huge monument to Vladimir Lenin, the founder of the USSR, in Moscow on April 3, 2023.

Putin's war fired up Russia's economy and beat sanctions — but big problems lie ahead

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Vladimir Putin just got reelected as Russia's president in a win that surprised no one.

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'Porous' sanctions haven't stopped Russia's war, but there's still more the West can do to squeeze its economy

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Russian President Vladimir Putin listens to chairman of the Supreme Court Vyacheslav Lebedev at the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, on February 6, 2024.

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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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