Russia was in demographic decline long before the war in Ukraine. Now it’s in free fall.

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With some 20,000 Ukrainian children forcibly deported to Russia, we investigate the woman Putin put in charge of the ...

A new textbook soon to be taught in Russian schools leans on the works of a 16th-century monk. It fits a pattern of ...

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Politicians fawn over it; troops HATE it.” Second, I commanded one of the key initiatives that informed the WPS strategy and ...

"In Bangui, the capital, there were women who complained about being raped by Russian ... The church community has adopted the Julian calendar and Russian Orthodox rules and traditions. The church has ...

Thirty-five bodies were recovered in Yemen after a U.S strike on Saada hit a detention centre hosting African migrants, Yemen ...

Francis' death set off the process of allowing the faithful to pay their final respects, first for Vatican officials in the ...

Under his watch, an overhauled Vatican constitution allowed any baptised lay Catholic, including women, to head most ...