Dwindling coal exports could be a political headache for Putin, especially amid other bad news for the wartime economy, such ...

Sanctions from the European Union and United States have devastated Russia’s coal sector, causing billions in losses, ...

China has abruptly turned its back on Putin's "friend".

United States President Donald Trump has threatened to impose steep trading restrictions on Russia unless a peace deal with ...

Russia’s coal industry has slipped into crisis under the weight of high borrowing costs and sanctions as slowing demand in China compounds with falling prices to expose deeper cracks in the economy.

Exports of Russian coal have steadily declined since Putin's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. They declined by 1% in the first year of the war, 4% in 2023, and 8% in 2024 - and are ...

Russia's President Vladimir Putin at the Novo-Ogaryovo state residence, outside Moscow, on June 4, 2025. ... Belousov presented a "countdown" to a potential crisis in Russia.

In this pool photograph distributed by the Russian state agency Sputnik, Russia's President Vladimir Putin chairs a meeting with members of the government via a videoconference at the Novo ...

As a result, Putin’s regime is inevitably drawn into open conflict with its own working class, which is increasingly bearing the brunt of the Russian economic crisis. The Russian working class ...