Aging Putin brings younger generation, family members into circle amid Kremlin instability: report

Vladimir Putin tightens grip on power by promoting family members and younger allies to his inner circle as economic strain ...

Russia’s population is shrinking rapidly. Putin is trying to put a stop to that

Russia’s population has fallen from 147.6 million in 1990 — the year before the USSR collapsed — to 146.1 million this year, ...
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Russia faces shrinking, ageing population; tries laws to combat it

At Kremlin conference on 23 October, President Vladimir Putin again called raising the birth rate “crucial” for Russia’s ...