Russia is struggling to get its new intercontinental ballistic missile working properly. Moscow has put a lot of money and propaganda behind the ICBM. Failures leave Russia reliant on older missiles ...

Vladimir Putin is appointing people “significantly older than most of the adult population” to senior leadership roles, according to UK officials. The Ministry of Defence (MoD) said the 72-year-old ...

For a quarter century, President Vladimir Putin has faced the specter of Russia's shrinking and aging population. In 1999, a year before he came to power, the number of babies born in Russia plunged ...

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The T-72 Tank Won’t Go Away: The Ukraine War has entered its third, hellish year. Both sides have sides suffered horrible losses. The frontlines have remained mostly static (with the Russians ...

When 75-year-old Russian scientist Anatoly Maslov, a specialist in high-speed aerodynamics, was arrested on treason charges in June 2022, his colleagues were alarmed. "The persecution of scientists in ...

Russia has the world's largest nuclear arsenal, but it's having trouble getting its newest intercontinental ballistic missile to work. The debacle leaves it dependent on capable but inferior missiles ...