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 ...

In Russia, poverty takes many forms, and its complexity hinders widespread progress in poverty reduction. That is why a business as usual approach will not suffice – instead, meaningful reforms are ...

Following an event at CSIS titled “Social Inequality and the Russian Economy,” they discuss what inequality looks like in Russia and what it means to be wealthy and poor in different oblasts, Russia’s ...

Soaring food and energy prices have pushed more than 71 million people worldwide into poverty since late February when Russia launched its war on Ukraine, a United Nations agency said.

During the peak of that crisis, the number of Russians in poverty was 19 million. With regard to percentages, 13.4 percent of Russia's population lived in poverty in 2015 against 11.2 percent in 2014.

Russian poverty rising.For years, Russian leader Vladimir Putin has flaunted the success of his United Russia Party with ample evidence of the country's economic growth. Moscow is home to more ...

Poverty and corruption are the biggest internal threats to Russia's security, President Dmitry Medvedev told Reuters, promising a major push to fight the twin scourges.

A decline in remittances from Russia and rising cost of living could push an additional one million people into poverty in the region.

Russia’s National Statistics Office officially classifies a total of 31 million people (22 percent of the population) as poor. Other surveys, however, place the poverty rate at 40 percent or higher.

After the Russian statistical service said last month that 2015 had seen 3.1 million more Russians officially living in poverty, the World Bank said it expected this trend to continue, putting ...

The four men charged with the massacre at a Moscow theater have been identified by the Russian government as citizens of Tajikistan.