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    Will Pensions End Putin? Russia’s Retirement Age Debate

    Protesters and unions worry workers won't live to see the new retirement age.
    by Marc Bennetts Sep 07, 2018 5 minutes
    A model skeleton lies on the ground during the protest against the government's plan to raise the pension age in St. Petersburg, Russia, on July 19. It reads "Waited for the pension."
    Russian pensions

    In the fall of 2005, Vladimir Putin, in his second term as Russia’s president, was holding a televised Q&A session with the nation. Toward the end of the program, a middle-aged woman asked him to comment on media reports that the government wanted to increase the age at which Russian citizens can retire and claim—as almost all of them do—a state pension.

    The question was an important one for Putin, whose popularity after he came to power in 2000 was partly due to his success in ensuring that senior citizens received their pensions in full and on time, something that had rarely happened under his predecessor, President Boris Yeltsin.

    Putin stared directly into the camera. “I am opposed to raising the retirement age,” he said, wagging his index finger to emphasize his words. “And as long

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