Russia continues to wage war in Ukraine, spending billions on military equipment. Meanwhile, many Russians live in extreme poverty, with little more than barracks for homes and mud in place of roads.

Russia continues to wage war in Ukraine, spending billions on military equipment. Meanwhile, many Russians live in extreme poverty, often with barracks for homes and mud instead of roads.

Real disposable income of the population decreased by 1.7% of GDP in 2017, despite the fact that Russia saw economic growth, Kudrin stated MOSCOW, September 27. /TASS/. The level of poverty in ...

In the year before Russia invaded Ukraine, they revealed that about a third of their population was living in poverty. Many Russians, and foreign economists, believed the real rate was nearly 70 ...

World Bank knowledge and technical assistance have focused on the social and economic development of Russia and on addressing the global challenges of fighting poverty, debt relief for the poorest ...

TASS/. As many as 22 million people lived below the poverty line in Russia in the first quarter of 2017, with this number being by nearly seven percent down on the same period last year ...

Russia's invasion of Ukraine has pushed up prices ... "We've calculated that there will be a further 1.3 million people pushed into poverty, and half a million of those are children." ...

Armenia’s government risks plunging the country into widespread poverty with plans to seek its membership in the European ...