World Bank predicts increase in poverty in Russia for the first time since 1998 crisis UNITED NATIONS, July 8. /TASS/. The struggle against poverty and non-infectious diseases as well as the road ...

The gap has risen since the war began, reaching a figure not seen since 2005 and leaving female workers struggling ...

At the same time, she recalled experiences from many trips she took across Russia, where the ubiquitous poverty and backwardness particularly struck her. The war in Ukraine has been going on for ...

That high rate of defense spending has made it possible to decrease the amount spent on public welfare. This increases the poverty rate, which Russia cannot allow to happen because it would cause more ...

Inside Russia poverty rates are up and families of men mobilized, often unwillingly, into the army and sent to Ukraine, are angry and more frequently protesting in public. This is illegal in Russia ...