Putin has built an overheating war economy. A return to normal could mean a hard landing.

Russia’s economy is encountering challenges that could compel President Vladimir Putin to end the ongoing war against Ukraine by 2025.

He needs to stop the war,” the former senior official said. Several indicators point to deep problems in the economy that the spending boom is increasingly struggling to mask, economists say.

Still, Putin refrained from giving a concrete outlook on the war in Ukraine, or the path of the Russian economy going forward. He also did not mention Russia's inflation struggles ...

NPR's Elissa Nadworny talks with Alexandra Prokopenko, of the Carnegie Russia Eurasia Center, about weakness in the Russian economy and what that might mean for the country's war in Ukraine.

WASHINGTON — Russia could be forced to end the war in Ukraine because it will run out of money to pay its troops, according to experts at the DC-based Institute for the Study of War. The country ...

It is in no one’s interest to militarise the Arctic but thanks to something of an arms race heating up between the US, Russia ...

Corruption, alongside Russia’s economic struggles and a waning defense industrial base (DIB), are being pinpointed by experts as key obstacles to the country sustaining its war with Ukraine.

Beset by mud, cold and relentless Russian assaults, Ukrainian troops are struggling. South of the crossroads city of Pokrovsk, Kyiv’s commanders are watching Russian units advance, with ...

Putin’s war economy roars ahead and the rest of Russia struggles Most civilian industries in Russia have seen a production decline in 2025.

WASHINGTON — Russia could be forced to end the war in Ukraine because it will run out of money to pay its troops, according to experts at the DC-based Institute for the Study of War. The country ...