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Demographic Barometer

• Migration in Russia based on the results of the first half of 2023
  • According to data for January-June 2023, net migration increase of the Russian population exceeded 126,000 people, including 79,000 people in population exchange with other countries
  • Russia received net migration increase in January-June 2023 in population exchange with all CIS countries except Ukraine
  • The volume of migration within Russia decreased in January-June 2023 by 2% in terms of the number of arrivals and by 5% in terms of the number of departures
  • In January-June 2023, the population of 64 out of 85 subject regions of the federation increased due to migration exchange with CIS countries, and in 32, due to migration exchange with other regions of Russia
  • The number of people receiving temporary asylum in Russia decreased by mid-2023 to 36,500 people

Q&A

• Your own roof over your head, or housing for Russians
• Top 5 housing problems of Russian teenagers
• Foreign languages: August 2023
• About longevity
• Demographic anxieties through the eyes of Europeans

In the vastness of Russia

• Life expectancy in the Russian Federation is 73.4 years
• Maternity capital for a first child in 2024 will amount to almost 631,000 rubles
• Russia has acute shortage of workers
• Unemployment rate in August was 3%
• Russian companies have significantly increased payments to freelancers working for them in Europe
• The number of participants in vocational training programs will increase to 180,000
• Will technological progress free up more than 700 thousand Russians?
• More than 2.2 million residents of new regions have received Russian passports
• Employers may be required to provide housing for migrant workers
• Russia sees increase in incidence of COVID-19
• Ministry of Health does not support legalization of alcohol sales on the Internet
• The number of mental disorders has increased in Russia
• Shortage of devices and consumables for diabetes patients in Russia
• Neonatal screening program will be expanded

World News

• Ukraine's population could drop to 26 million in ten years
• France's birth rate falls to lowest level since 1946
• Life in Yerevan, Tbilisi and Almaty is now more expensive than in Moscow
• Entry of Ukrainian citizens into Russia from third countries will be limited
• Latvia orders Russians to pass language exam to obtain residence permit
• Poland blocks decision to resettle migrants in EU countries
• Illegal migrants tricked into entering Germany
• Armenia overtakes Kazakhstan and Georgia in terms of growth in remittances from Russia
• 26,000 people listed as missing in Ukraine
• Ukraine plans to change approach to disability concept
• WHO recommends second vaccine against malaria in children
• Loneliness increases risk of Parkinson’s disease

The newspapers write about…

• RBK on Rosstat's demographic forecasts
• Kommersant on the development of a demographic security strategy
• RBK, News.ru and Kommersant on tightening the circulation of abortion drugs
• Esli byt’ tochnym on teen birth rates
• TASS on work-family balance
• Vedomosti on benefits for working mothers
• Nezavisimaya Gazeta and Kommersant on low unemployment and staff shortages
• Nezavisimaya Gazeta and Novye Izvestia on working pensioners
• News.ru on the results of pension reform
• Le Monde on the departure of women and teenagers from Ukraine
• Kommersant on the attitude of migrants to Russian legislation
• Kommersant on the fight against "rubber" apartments
• News.ru on population censuses
• Kommersant on the growing interest in secondary specialized education
• Esli byt’ tochnym on Russian monitoring of the economic situation and public health
• Izvestia on detecting depression in patients using MRI
• Novye Izvestia on reducing costs for modernizing clinics
• Expert on the socio-economic and demographic development of China
• RBK on the economic and demographic situation of the Gaza Strip and Israel
• RBK on the 2023 Nobel Prize in Economics
• RBK on the victims of Hamas attacks

Read books and magazines

• Modernization of fertility in Kazakhstan (the sociocultural aspect). Volume 1
• Modernization of fertility in Kazakhstan (the sociocultural aspect). Volume 2
• Health and care data: approaches to data linkage for evidence-informed policy
• Population dynamics in the Mediterranean: a demographic convergence?
• Statistical annex of the 2022 annual report on migration and asylum. 2023 edition
• From the pages of the magazines Narodonaseleniye (Population) and Zdorovye, demografiya, ekologiya finno-ugorskikh narodov (Health, demography, ecology of the Finno-Ugric peoples)
• Contents of the magazine Genus

Profession: researcher

• XXII International Scientific and Practical Conference "Ethnodemographic processes in Kazakhstan and adjacent territories"
• Consumption of surrogate alcohol in Russia (analysis of the situation using the example of the Jewish Autonomous Region): micro-level and macro-level. Seminar of the student society "Demographer"

Student page

• Expedition of the A.G. Vishnevsky Institute of Demography of the National Research University Higher School of Economics "Migration processes in a single-industry area (using the example of the Udomelsky urban district of the Tver region)"