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Russian Demographic barometer

· Russia: preliminary demographic results of 2017 (Part I)

• The population of Russia continues to increase for the ninth consecutive year, although in 2017 it grew by less than 0.1%

• In 2017, natural population decrease in Russia was 134,000 people; it was offset by migration, providing a small increase

• The number of births in Russia decreased by 11% - to 1.65 million

• In 2017, 6.5% more marriages and 0.5% more divorces were registered than in previous year

Online polling

• Is it necessary to equate cohabitation with official marriage?

Q&A

• Fertility in Russia: measures and opinions

• Marriage and cohabitation: put an equal sign?

• Cheating, same-sex relations, abortions: taboo or norm?

• From human papillomavirus to cervical cancer

• Attitudes to religion

In the vastness of Russia

• The number of deaths in Russia has decreased, but the number of newborns has also fallen

• Rosstat tells of sharp reduction in the number of births

• Is Moscow growing mainly due to natural increase, not migration?

• Kudrin reiterates inevitable increase in the retirement age in Russia

• Should the retirement age of men and women be the same?

• Lack of changes in the pension system will lead to a reduction in the size of real pensions

• Rich Russians won’t be left without a pension

• Federation Council preparing bill on support for large families

• St. Petersburg to extend regional maternity capital program

• Age limit of young people may be legally raised to 35 years

• Most Russians are not ready to recognize cohabitation as marriage

• Russians will be allowed a maximum of 113 minutes for marriage ceremony at registry offices

• Russia’s best and worst regions for quality of life have been identified

• Most Russians seek a better life in regional centers

• Rosstat forecasts an outflow of population from the Far Eastern Federal District

• Officials consider the departure of inhabitants of the Far Eastern Federal District to the Krasnodar Territory to be a myth

• In first place among those who obtained Russian citizenship in 2017 are natives of Ukraine

• HRO does not consider it necessary to introduce work visas

• Over 90% of labor migrants in St. Petersburg are from Uzbekistan and Tajikistan

• Maximum stay in Russia of workers from North Korea limited to one year

• Hosts of migrant workers will face fines of up to 500,000 rubles for migrants’ violations

• Nearly 600,000 Russians are diagnosed with cancer each year

• Infant mortality in Russia has decreased by 8%

• Children in Russia have begun suffering more often from diabetes, but less often from alcoholism

• Flu season will last until mid-April

• Moscow doctors have already issued over 45 million electronic prescriptions

• State may shed a part of its healthcare spending

• Russia expecting a sharp rise in prices for medicines

• Ministry of Internal Affairs proposes to double punishment for drunken driving

World news

• Population of Armenia is 2,972,900

• Life expectancy in Belarus reaches 74.3 years

• Mortality down in Kazakhstan

• Average age of the working population in 2030 will exceed 41 years

• The working age population in Lithuania is shrinking unevenly

• In Kazakhstan, retirement age of women to be raised to 63

• Kazakhstan census to be conducted with help of new technologies

• Uzbekistan intends to tighten procedures for marriage and divorce

• Lithuania wants to hold referendum on dual citizenship

• Ukraine to introduce electronic single-entry visas

• Migrants forcing Germans to vote for the right

• The flow of migrants to Europe through the Mediterranean Sea has declined

• In Tajikistan, reports of a decline in the flow of labor migrants

• Georgian citizens coming to Russia more often

• National Bank of Ukraine warns of a growth of emigration from the country

• Large numbers of Ukrainians going to work in Europe

• Czech Republic intends to double job quotas for Ukrainian citizens

• Filipino migrants may be evacuated from Kuwait

• Migrants from Africa oppose deportation from Israel

• Prostate cancer kills more people than breast cancer

• In Ukraine, more than 130,000 cases of cancer are registered each year

• Staphylococcus, streptococcus and salmonella becoming resistant to antibiotics

• It will be possible to find out your baby’s genome during pregnancy

The newspapers write about…

• “Ekonomika sevodnya”, “REGNUM”, “Praim”, “Moskovskiy Komsomolets”, “RBK”, “Komsomolskaya Pravda” and “FederalPress” on the retirement age

• “Gazeta.Ru” on Russia’s demographic successes and problems

• “Komsomolskaya Pravda” on the working life of Russians

• “Radio Svoboda” and “Rossiyskaya Gazeta” on internal Russian migration

• “REGNUM” on demographic problems of the Far East

• “Telekanal 360” on difficulties in obtaining citizenship

• “Dagbladet” on endangered villages

• “Jyllands-Posten” on childbirth abroad

• “Life” on mass migration of Chechens

• “112.ua” and “Atlantic Council” on labor migration in Ukraine

• “Delfi.Iv” on Latvia’s population decline

• “Moskovskiy Komsomolets” and “Rossiyskaya Gazeta” on the fight against cancer

• “Vechernyaya Moskva” on surrogate motherhood

• “Bumaga” on caring for the elderly

• “Ridus” on “dead souls” before the elections

• “Kommersant” on criticism of the healthy lifestyle strategy

• “Gazeta.ru” on counterfeiting on the drug market

• “Rossiyskaya Gazeta” on causes of death

• “Moskovskiy Komsomolets” on mass health examinations

• “Slate.fr” on the biological limits of humans

• “Novye Izvestiya” on the future of the labor market

• “Novaya Gazeta” on the shortage of schools

• “REGNUM” on the fate of low birthweight babies

• “Komsomolskaya Pravda” on the theory of generations

• “InFormat” on Ukraine’s place in a prosperity ranking

• “Feniks” on the lifestyle of the Japanese

Read books and magazines

• Social condition and the standard of living in Russia. 2017

• Monitoring the demographic development of Moscow. 2016-2017: analytical materials

• A collection of statistical materials on diseases of the circulatory system

• Green book ageing society. How “new ageing” will change our lives

• Low Fertility And Reproductive Health In East Asia

• Through the pages of the magazines “Demograficheskoye Obozreniye” ("Demographic Review") and “Vestnik MGU. Seriya 18. Sotsiologiya i politologiya” ("Bulletin of Moscow State University. Series 18. Sociology and Political Science”)

• Contents of the “European Journal of Population”

The reading room

• · “The population of Russia 2015”. Twenty-third annual demographic report

Demographic digest

• Trading Youth for Citizenship? The Spousal Age Gap in Cross-Border Marriages

• Demographic and Educational Success of Lineages in Northern Sweden

Profession: researcher

• "Farewell, Soviet simple man: a sociological analysis of intergenerational dynamics." Scientific seminar of the Institute of Demography of the Higher School of Economics "Demographic challenges of the 21st century"

• “The length of working life in Russia". A joint seminar of the Labor Market Research Laboratory and the Center for Labor Studies

• Demographic results of a revolutionary century. The cycle of dialogues "Chronicles of a plunging empire"