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Demographic barometer

• Asylum seekers in the European Union, 2022-2023
  • The number of asylum applications filed in EU-27 countries increased to almost a million in 2022
  • Among first-time asylum applicants in the EU-27, citizens of Syria and Afghanistan predominate
  • 43% of first-time asylum seekers are men aged 18-34
  • In the EU-27 in 2022, 633 thousand first instance decisions and 218 thousand final decisions were made on asylum applications, of which 49% and 34%, respectively, were positive
  • At the end of September 2023, almost 4.2 million people who fled Ukraine enjoyed temporary protection status in the EU27
  • Among those granted temporary protection status in the EU27, 25% are children under 14 years old and 60% people aged 18-64

Q&A

• Medicine for all: monitoring by VTsIOM
• Mass medical exams: monitoring by VTsIOM
• 11% of economically active Russians sought online consultations with doctors; one in five did so right at their workplace
• Coronavirus on the rise
• Thoughts about retirement

In the vastness of Russia

• Can Russia set restrictions on the maternity capital?
• Initiative to limit the age of payment of maternity capital to 30 years is short-sighted
• In Russia, a proposal to introduce “paternity” capital for the birth of a third child
• Child benefit will remain when the parent goes to work
• Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs proposes increasing income ceiling for the self-employed
• Development of the Far East will require 80 billion rubles in 2024
• Do pensioners not seek jobs because their pensions are sufficient?
• An acute shortage of personnel in the retail sector
• Could hiring people with disabilities increase GDP by 0.5% annually?
• Russia says unable to issue electronic passports
• Rules for migration registration of foreigners have changed in Russia
• Migrants to be fingerprinted at Moscow airports
• Rules for foreigners obtaining marriage-based temporary residence permits may be tightened
• Ministry of Internal Affairs proposes to prohibit illegal migrants from marrying and opening bank accounts
• About 15,000 illegal migrants will be deported from Russia in 2023
• Migrants to Russian Federation may be required to buy health insurance for their children
• Will migrant children be required to take a language test?
• Patriarch frightened by migrants
• Ministry of Finance again proposes to raise prices for vodka
• Stroke in Russia is getting younger
• Abortion ban has not increased birth rate anywhere
• Putin considers abortion problem in Russia acute
• By 2030, 70 percent of Russians should be involved in sports

World News

• Hong Kong authorities will increase birth rate with the help of cash handouts
• In US, infant mortality rises for first time since 2002
• Latvia legalizes civil partnerships
• Mayors of five American cities are asking for help in managing migration flows
• About 5,000 migrants have set off on foot to the United States
• China lifts mandatory health declarations for travelers
• WHO chief warns of threat of new pandemic
• Red Cross calls for marking sites that are significant to people's lives
• Over 6 years, the use of euthanasia in Canada has increased 13-fold
• EU losing 600 billion euros a year due to depression
• Geneticists have identified four types of biological aging

The newspapers write about…

• Kommersant, Izvestia, Novye Izvestia and RBK on new measures to stimulate fertility
• Rossiyskaya Gazeta on the idea of spending maternity capital on paid medical services for a child
• Novye Izvestia and Izvestia on paternity capital
• Novye Izvestia on measures to combat abortion
• Kommersant on hiring migrants
• Rossiyskaya Gazeta on new citizenship law
• Novye Izvestia on manifesto to migrants
• Kommersant on migrantophobia
• Kommersant on the expulsion of refugees from Pakistan
• Novye Izvestiya on Ukrainian refugees
• Novye Izvestia on possible revival of "Nansen passports"
• Kommersant on the evacuation of foreigners from Gaza
• Novye Izvestia on need to purchase mandatory insurance for migrant children
• RBK on migration moods of Russians
• RIA Novosti on the conditions for increasing life expectancy
• Nezavisimaya Gazeta on retirement age
• Novye Izvestia on alternative view of when old age begins
• Kommersant, RIA Novosti and Nezavisimaya Gazeta on the personnel shortage
• Kommersant on mentoring program in healthcare system
• Nezavisimaya Gazeta on wage problems
• Novye Izvestia and Kommersant on fictitious marriages
• Novye Izvestia on trade restrictions on Indian medicines
• Nezavisimaya Gazeta on senior spending on medicines
• Kommersant on the fight against cardiovascular diseases
• Novye Izvestia on the need to include shadow income to assess the financial situation of Russians
• Rossiyskaya Gazeta on the growth in sales of oral contraceptives
• Kommersant on proposal to hand alimony debts over to state
• News.ru on violations in universities where foreigners take exams
• Novye Izvestia on prayer rooms in residential buildings
• RBK on US population “peak”

Read books and magazines

• International Migration Outlook 2023
• Demographic Yearbook of the Kyrgyz Republic: 2018-2022
• Guidelines on the legislative framework for civil registration, vital statistics and identity management
• Risky behavior of Belarusians and the practice of using condoms
• Eurostat regional yearbook. 2023 edition
• Through the pages of the journals Sotsialnye aspekty zdorovya naseleniya (Social Aspects of Population Health) and Ekologiya cheloveka (Human Ecology)
• Contents of the journal Population and Environment

Profession: researcher

• Infertility and demographic processes. Meeting of the Demographic Section of the Central House of Scientists
• Migration intentions of Russians (according to a questionnaire survey in 9 regions). First seminar of the HSE FSN project group

New in the reading room

• How many children will there be in a Soviet family (survey results)