Domestic activity has become strained in recent months by labour shortages and high interest rates introduced to tackle inflation, which has accelerated under record military spending.
US President Donald Trump on Thursday called on his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin to "make a deal" with Ukraine to end the ongoing war immediately.
In contrast, the Russian Federation has been referred to as an “imitation democracy”. It has institutions that one would find in democratic systems of government (a parliament and a directly elected ...