Russian regions are dramatically increasing the amount of money they pay to new military recruits as analysts say ...

Russia is in a desperate labor bind, and it’s trying to solve the problem by exploiting workers from the Global South.

Russia's defense industry is short some tens of thousands of skilled laborers. Traditional gender roles limit women's participation in crucial jobs there, a report says. Demographic trends and ...

Russian companies are widening their campaign to find young African women to help fill a labor shortage, heightening concern many are being deployed in Moscow’s war effort in Ukraine. The latest drive ...

The social media ads promised the young African women a free plane ticket, money and a faraway adventure in Europe. Just complete a computer game and a 100-word Russian vocabulary test. But instead of ...

Thousands of Cubans have been recruited to travel to Russia—and many have ended up fighting in Ukraine, possibly under false ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin wants his country to compete in the global race to build AI, besting models coming out of China and the US. But its flagship large language model, or LLM, isn't even ...