The latest bout of inflation is the product of both external and internal factors. In recent months, as the West has ...

Russian banks last year hit a record net profit of 3.8 trillion rubles (some $41 billion). A report from the Central Bank of the Russian Federation on Thursday said the corporate loan portfolio of ...

In annual terms, inflation in Russia as of January 27, 2025 (according to calculations based on average daily data for the current and previous year on similar dates) amounted to 10.13% MOSCOW ...

Brendan Cole is a Newsweek Senior News Reporter based in London, UK. His focus is Russia and Ukraine, in particular the war started by Moscow. He also covers other areas of geopolitics including ...

Since Moscow’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, Russia’s economy has surpassed expectations. Its figures are, if not rosy, not ruinous either. Last year, the war economy likely grew ...

Since Moscow’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, Russia’s economy has surpassed expectations. Its figures are, if not rosy, not ruinous either. Last year, the war economy likely grew faster than ...

An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link Economists are questioning Russia's latest economic data, as they say recently published and cited figures don't seem to match its real ...

Russia's latest economic figures show it had a strong 2024. But economists are suspicious, believing its data don't stand up to scrutiny and is inflated. This week, Trump threatened high tariffs ...

This would further strain the Russian economy, which first took a hit in February 2022 when the war began. The latest report from Reuters suggests Putin is worried about such measures from ...

MOSCOW (Reuters) -President Vladimir Putin has grown increasingly concerned about distortions in Russia's wartime economy, just as Donald Trump pushes for an end to the Ukraine conflict ...