Moscow has expanded military recruitment and boosted weapons production. Peace could jeopardize the resulting economic gains.

Russia’s war economy is under rising internal pressure. With growth slowing and diplomacy stalled, Putin may soon face a ...

US President Donald Trump has suggested he could impose harsh new sanctions on Russia if he runs out of patience with the ...

Any economy can sustain a war for a time ... they built a plant in Vsevolozhsk and produced the Ford Focus—it became wildly popular in Russia. But if Ford wanted to return today, they’d ...

The transformation has made Russia’s economy reliant on the war for jobs, wages and growth ... Capital Economics said in a note to clients. The budgetary focus on military production also ...

The European Union must focus on a new sanctions package to suffocate Russia's economy and force President Vladimir Putin to ...

Putin fears that the hundreds of thousands of Russian soldiers who have been killed or maimed in Ukraine, the heavy economic costs suffered as a result of the war, and the drain on Russia’s ...

The 1998 crisis worsened the situation, as a global recession and falling commodity prices led to fiscal imbalances and ...

In remarks to reporters, Trump said he believes Russia is still interested ... races — and a state economy that is especially rattled by Trump’s trade war — Iowa Democrats say they are ...

After almost three years of a war economy, the central bank has been dragged into the maelstrom of contradictions that is increasingly unhinging the Russian economy. Russia's companies need money ...

Russia’s successes on the front lines ... Some of his neighbors fear the success of the war machine now driving its economy means he never will. In the early stages of the war, the Russian ...

Trump wrote. If the war does end in Ukraine, some of Russia’s neighbors worry its war economy might be refocused on them. In the Baltics, Estonian military planners grimly discuss the ...