With oil revenues recovering, Putin's key domestic challenge will be grappling with a stark labour shortage, aggravated by last year's military mobilisation and the emigration of hundreds of ...

Putin, who on Thursday said the economy was set to grow 3.5% this year, on Friday said he would run again, a move that could keep him in power until at least 2030.

What is certain is that Russia’s greatest challenges are domestic – and that Putin will spend 2016 desperately hoping that the price of oil starts to climb.

Vladimir Putin, whose regime’s legitimacy is derived from his unparalleled popular support, is facing the biggest political challenge since his last return to the Kremlin in 2011-2012.

Gross domestic product (GDP) is set to grow 3.5% this year, Putin said, up from a 2.1% contraction in 2022. In the longer term, both Russian and external forecasts envisage Russia's growth ...

Putin’s Public Opinion Challenge. August 21, 2014. By ... As for popular support for Vladimir Putin, ... are satisfied with domestic socioeconomic conditions but also understand that a widened ...

WW3 fears as Vladimir Putin challenges West to ' high tech duel' as he boasts of mega Oreshnik weapon. Story by Jon King & John O'sullivan ... typically focuses on domestic issues.

The Kremlin has ramped up its ideological campaigns during periods of perceived external and internal challenges to the regime, including the “color revolutions” that rocked the post-Soviet world in ...

Marking 25 years in office, Vladimir Putin says he has remade Russia as a sovereign power and will prevail in Ukraine, but economic and strategic setbacks complicate the picture.

Sustaining the war benefits Putin because it makes him more resilient to the domestic challenges that have mounted since the invasion. Using data from the political scientists Sarah Croco and Jessica ...

Navalny is a special challenge for the Russian leadership, the Putin leadership, because Navalny is not of the sort of liberal elite of the standard Russian politicians and oppositions.

ANALYSIS-Putin's economic challenges are numerous but surmountable as election looms ... Putin's key domestic challenge will be grappling with a stark labour shortage, ...