While Putin’s said in 2005 that the retirement age would not be raised as long as he was president, the Russian government has decided to raise the retirement age 8 years to age 63 for women ...

Russia is also joining this race, hastily preparing for the reform of the pension system. With the decline of capitalism, humanity survives only at the cost of continuous destruction, by crippling ...

The pension reform bill will jack up the retirement age for a number of special-category workers who have hitherto been able to stop working ... The average pension in Russia, 13,300 rubles ...

On Tuesday, August 21, the Russian parliament (Duma) held a hearing that made clear it is pushing forward with a deeply unpopular pension reform that would raise the retirement age for men from 60 ...

Thousands of Russians have taken to the streets to protest a government plan to raise the age for receiving state pensions, despite concessions made by President Vladimir Putin to soften the ...

The faceless authors of pension reform. Aristotle believed that some unpleasant animals are born from dust and dirt alone, without creators. The same thing seems to apply to Russia’s pension reform.

According to Kravchenko's count, there have been more than 450 demonstrations in 281 cities and towns in the two months since the pension reform became a public issue.

Some 200 protesters gathered outside the Russian State Duma on July 19 to challenge proposed legislation to increase the country's retirement age, as lawmakers prepared to vote for the bill in its ...

Tens of thousands of people across Russia, including Communist Party supporters, labor union members, and pro-democracy activists, have so far rallied to protest the pension reforms.

Thousands of people attended protests across Russia today against a deeply unpopular pension reform plan. It comes despite President Vladimir Putin's announcement of several concessions earlier ...

Raquel Pichardo-Allison talks to Pavel Teplukhin, president of Troika Dialog Asset Management, about the state of Russia's pension reform five years after the second pillar went into force Raquel ...

RUSSIA - Radical pension reform in Russia is likely to herald rich pickings for foreign fund managers as assets look set to rocket by 2012. Combined pension assets under the state system and ...