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Demographic Barometer

• Population of CIS countries, 2022
  • The population of the CIS countries at the beginning of 2022 was, according to the CIS Interstate Statistical Committee, 287 million people
  • Children under the age of 15 make up from 15% of the population of Ukraine to 36% of the population of Tajikistan, elderly people 65 years of age and older - from 3% in Tajikistan to 18% in Ukraine
  • Total fertility in the CIS countries varies by more than 2.5 times
  • Life expectancy at birth is from 70 to 76 years in CIS countries
  • In recent years, infant mortality in CIS countries has varied from 2‰ to 27‰

Q&A

• Traditional values, modern goals
• Sex in our lives
• Attitude towards abortion
• The labor market in 2023: Superjob trends and forecasts
• Level of inclusion of people with disabilities in Russia

In the vastness of Russia

• By the end of 2023, average life expectancy in Russia will be about 74 years
• Golikova announces steady downward trend in mortality in Russia
• Ministry of Labor reports increase in the number of large families
• Total fertility rate of third and subsequent children over past 6 years has increased by 12%
• State allocates almost 90 billion rubles for payment of unified child benefit
• Russia doesn’t need to create new agency for family issues in Russia
• From 2024, minimum wage will increase by 18.5%
• Ministry of Defense proposes changing health requirements for military service
• Have about 40% of recent emigres returned to Russia?
• Proposal to fingerprint foreigners when entering Russia
• Ministry of Internal Affairs proposes to introduce a controlled stay regime for illegal migrants
• Over last 35 years, the number of abortions in Russia has decreased by 14 times
• Lipetsk region joins ban on abortions in private clinics
• Matvienko speaks out against abortion restrictions in private clinics
• Russia will begin to conduct mandatory medical examinations of all working citizens
• 81% of men and 72% of women say their sex life is important

World News

• WHO European Region has fastest growing HIV epidemic in the world
• New Zealand to lift ban on cigarette sales to youth
• Children in China suffering en masse from unknown type of pneumonia
• On the heels of China, an outbreak of SARS in France
• Middle Eastern migrants flee Finnish border after its closure
• Norway thinking about closing checkpoints on Russian border
• Estonia warns travelers to Russia about possible border closure
• Lithuania sees no reason to close border with Russia
• A significant portion of Ukrainians who left for the West may not return to their homeland
• Germany may cancel benefits for future migrants from Ukraine

The newspapers write about…

• Kommersant and Novye Izvestia on the upcoming Year of the Family
• Esli byt’ tochnym and Kommersant on proposal to ban abortions and its consequences
• Kommersant on opponents of abortion ban in Russia
• News.ru on proposal to pay women 200 thousand rubles for birth of a child
• News.ru on a tax on childlessness
• RBK and Forbes on recognizing the LGBT movement as extremist
• Novye Izvestia on the price of condoms
• Kommersant and Esli byt’ tochnym on the fight against HIV
• Esli byt’ tochnym and Kommersant on ranking of regions by HIV prevalence
• Novye Izvestia and Kommersant on the shortage of personnel in the labor market and the fight against it
• Izvestia on the demand for personnel of pre-retirement age
• Esli byt’ tochnym on the gender pay gap
• Rossiyskaya Gazeta on the rules for obtaining and losing Russian citizenship
• Novye Izvestia and Rossiyskaya Gazeta on a regime of controlled stay of illegal migrants
• Kommersant on a proposal to forbid migrants to express political views
• Novye Izvestia on the shortage of migrant drivers
• Novye Izvestia and RBK on the closure of checkpoints on Finnish-Russian border
• RBK and Izvestia on the maternity capital, allowances and benefits for families with children
• Kommersant and Novye Izvestia on the increase in divorce rates for the sake of receiving social benefits for families with children
• Expert and Kommersant on living alone
• Novye Izvestia on variations in pension sizes in Russian regions
• Kommersant on supporting artificial intelligence in healthcare
• Kommersant on the growth of respiratory diseases in China
• Novye Izvestia on reproductive health monitoring
• Novye Izvestia on the man’s role in providing for the family
• Novye Izvestia on reducing the list of diseases that are contraindications for military service
• Kommersant on the image of a doctor through the eyes of the doctors themselves

Read books and magazines

• 2022 United Nations Demographic Yearbook
• Global Tuberculosis Report 2023
• HIV/AIDS surveillance in Europe 2023. 2022 data
• Migration of the population of the Republic of Kazakhstan
• Monitoring indicators of the quality of life of the population in the countries of the Commonwealth of Independent States 2019-2022
• Through the pages of the magazines Naseleniya i Ekonomika (Population and Economics) and Ekonomika i Organizatsiya Promyshlennovo Proizvodstva (EKO) (Economics and Organization of Industrial Production (ECO))
• Contents of the journal Population & Societies

Profession: researcher

• 60th anniversary of the birth of Alexander Albertovich Sagradov

New in the reading room

• Archive of issues of the journal "SPERO. Social policy: expertise, recommendations, reviews" (2004 - 2012)