The number of Russians living below the poverty line in 2023 dropped to 13.5 million from 14.3 million a year earlier, the Rosstat statistics service said on Wednesday, with the poverty rate ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin at the Kremlin in Moscow on August 3, 2023. Ukraine has claimed that his forces have lost 250,000 troops since the start of his full-scale invasion.

Soaring energy prices triggered by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine could have pushed millions of people around the world into extreme poverty in 2022, researchers warned on Thursday, urging ...

The fall could be significant given Russia’s projected GDP losses, deeply affecting many families that rely on them as a source of income support. Rising risks to poverty. By 2023, high food price ...

Islamic tensions in Tajikistan. As many as 1.5 million Tajik migrants are estimated to be in Russia after fleeing the poverty and unemployment that plague their landlocked, mountainous country.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The number of Ukrainians living in poverty has grown by 1.8 million since 2020, bringing the total to about 29% of the population as Russia's 2022 invasion continues to ...

The number of Russians living below the poverty line in 2023 dropped to 13.5 million from 14.3 million a year earlier, the Rosstat statistics service said on Wednesday, with the poverty rate ...

Along with grinding poverty, Tajikistan is rife with religious tensions. Hard-line Islamists were one of the main forces opposing the government in a 1990s civil war that devastated the country.

The poverty line was 14,339 roubles ($158.92) per month in Russia last year, Rosstat said. Russian President Vladimir Putin last week proposed at least $110 billion in extra state support such ...

Along with grinding poverty, Tajikistan is rife with ... In this photo taken from video released by Investigative Committee of Russia on Sunday, March 24, 2024, ...