With a slumping birth rate, a death rate on the rise and immigration slowly falling, Russia is experiencing population decline. Despite having launched some of the most encouraging childbirth policies, Putin is now facing a “major problem for someone who believes population is synonymous with power”, says French demographer Laurent Chalard.
Russia’s population has been declining at a dizzying rate for the past 30 years. The demographic trend has been steadfast since 1991, when the Soviet Union...
Poll in most populous state, North Rhine-Westphalia, also casts doubt on support for Olaf Scholz
A bellwether election in Germany’s most populous state has shown a further eroding of support for populist parties on the far ends of the political spectrum, thrown up questions over the pulling power of the chancellor, Olaf Scholz, and entrenched the growing authority of the Greens.
The centre-right Christian Democratic Union (CDU) of the incumbent state premier, Hendrik Wüst, emerged as the...
Scientists from the Marine Biological Association and the University of Southampton have led a study which indicates that lethal collisions of whale sharks with large ships are 'vastly underestimated'.
