In the hardest-hit areas, many villages are ghost towns. Demographers and political scientists debate to what degree Russia’s campaign is a war of depopulation, and what Russian President ...

You can probably name some of the abandoned cities of the past, like Pompei or Babylon, that were destroyed by natural ...

To bring Russia to the negotiating table and end the war in Ukraine, Vladimir Putin needs to believe time is no longer on his ...

Today, small towns are the backbone of any country. The importance of their sustainable development, openness, security, resilience is now at the forefront of the world’s concerns. In Russia, they are ...