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Russian demographic barometer

Migration to Russia, preliminary results of 2018

• In 2018, net migration in Russia decreased by 41%, while international migration turnover increased by 4%

• Russia’s greatest net migration in 2018 came from population exchange with Tajikistan – 31,000 people

• The number of migrants moving within Russia increased by 4% in 2018

• In 2018 the population of 62 regions increased due to migration exchange with CIS countries, due to exchange with other regions of Russia - 17

• The number of forced migrants, refugees and persons receiving temporary asylum continued to decline in 2018

• By the end of 2018, the number of foreigners with a valid work permit in Russia dropped to 93,000 people, while those with a valid work license increased to 1,662,000

Take care of women!

• New report on violence against women in Eastern Europe

• UNAIDS: case of person cured of HIV inspires hope, but it’s still far from complete victory

• Abortions in Georgia

In the vastness of Russia

• Lowest numbers of births are in the Tambov, Tula and Smolensk regions

• Russian women putting off birth of first child more often

• Highest mortality rates are in the Pskov, Tver, Novgorod, Ivanovo and Vladimir regions

• Moscow among top 30 world leaders in life expectancy

• In 15 years will Muslims make up one third of the population of Russia?

• Men’s salaries are 28% higher than women’s

• Rosstat will consider comments of experts on calculating real incomes

• Has the Ministry of Finance pushed 5.5 million Russians into the shadows?

• Moscow authorities have provided places in kindergartens for all children over two and a half years old

• Pre-pensioners will keep the right to alimony

• HSE has found nothing special about modern teens

• This spring will 115 thousand Russians be left without a job?

• Audit Chamber considers state support of young scientists ineffective

• Golikova announces change in rules for admission to targeted university education

• “Everyone will move to Moscow and the region”?

• The number of new citizens of the Russian Federation has doubled in five years

• 20,800 Russians received EU citizenship in 2017

• Putin demands that all violations of immigration laws be stopped

• Plans to attract 425,000 foreign students to Russian universities

• Kemerovo, Irkutsk and Sverdlovsk regions lead in mortality from HIV

• Russians will be offered HIV testing in the workplace

• Alcohol could cause 38% of deaths in the working-age population of Russia

• Leading wine-drinking regions of Russia named

• 53% of citizens in Russia do not smoke, 45% do not drink alcohol

• Ministry of Health introduces anti-tobacco concept to government

• Maternal mortality in Russia down four-fold

• Measles outbreaks already observed in seven regions of Russia

• In Russia, cancer being diagnosed more often

• Ministry of Health will expand oncological screening program for the older generation

• Oncological diseases will be treated in private clinics too

• Putin signs law on palliative care in the Russian Federation

• Ministry of Health names the most common mental disorders of Russians

• Golikova promises rural areas 11,500 doctors and 3,000 paramedics

• Almost 70% of equipment in Russia’s perinatal centers is Russian-made

• Ministry of Health proposes fines for non-normative medical care

World news

• 52% of the world's population lives in seven countries

• Population of Ukraine shrinking by an average of 200,000 people per year

• Lifting ban on having children is not helping to boost fertility in China

• Should every Ukrainian woman have four children?

• Poland plans to abolish income tax for young people

• Armenia is among the top five post-Soviet countries in the gender equality index

• World’s best cities to live in named

• Almost 250,000 jobs will appear in Kirgizia

• In Kazakhstan, a proposal to improve citizenship legislation

• Latvian citizens most often obtain British citizenship

• EU will introduce visas for Americans

• European Commission announces end of migration crisis

• Migrants to EU will not solve the problem of population aging

• In Ukraine, 1,364,713 internally displaced persons

• Poland uses smartphones to count the number of Ukrainian migrants

• Migration outflow from Kazakhstan in 2018 increased by 11%

• Belarus authorities unhappy about migration of specialists

• Ukraine left without qualified personnel

• The country that two thirds of the population wants to leave

• Spanish government announces reduction in the number of illegal migrants

• First UN center to receive refugees from Venezuela opens in Colombia

• Experiment to fight HIV in Africa fails

• More than 1 billion people may experience hearing problems by 2050

• Myth about danger of measles vaccine refuted

• Uzbekistan introduces in vitro fertilization

The newspapers write about…

• Rossiyskaya Gazeta and Svobodnaya Pressa on the national projects

• Kommersant and Rossiyskaya Gazeta on stimulating fertility

• Rossiyskaya Gazeta, The New Republic and Moskovsky Komsomolets on reproductive behavior and health

• Le Figaro on parenthood

• Gazeta.Ru, Lenta.ru, Le Figaro and Radio Svoboda on gender inequality and feminism

• L'Espresso on gender uncertainty

• Moskovsky Komsomolets on working in the registry office

• Snob on increasing life expectancy

• Forbes, Russkaya sluzhba BBC and the Neue Zurcher Zeitung on aging and longevity

• Forbes on rehabilitation

• RFI, Der Spiegel, The New York Times and Foreign Policy on measles and other infectious diseases

• RBK on HIV

• The Village on cancer vaccinations

• Gazeta.ru and RBK on a healthy lifestyle

• The Guardian on road traffic mortality

• Kommersant on attracting new citizens to Russia

• Izvestia, News Front and The Daily Storm on the migration crisis

• Radio Azattyk on migrant families

• Bloomberg and RIA Novosti on Russian emigration

• Vedomosti and Russkaya sluzhba BBC on new data in the study of migration

• Moskovsky Komsomolets on inequality

• Al Arab on the growing number of Muslims in Russia

• RIA Novosti on the extinction of mankind

• Forbes and Deutschlandfunk on the 1930s famine in Kazakhstan and new challenges

• Svenska Dagbladet on Finland as the best country

Read books and magazines

• Proactive demographic policy: 10 years later. Effects, instruments, new targets

• Global Education Monitoring Report 2019

• Monitoring SDG indicators in the CIS region 2015-2017

• Demographic Yearbook of the Czech Republic 2017

• On the state of rural areas in the Russian Federation in 2016

• Through the pages of the journals Problemy sotsialnoy gigieny, zdravokhraneniya i istorii meditsiny (Problems of Social Hygiene, Health and the History of Medicine) and Mir Rossii. Sotsiologiya i etnologiya (The World of Russia. Sociology and Ethnology)

• Contents of the journal Population & Societes

Profession: researcher

• The need for migrant workers in modern Russia. Meeting of the Demographic Section of the Central House of Scientists of the Russian Academy of Sciences

• 155 years since the birth of Alexander Arkadyevich Kaufman

• Congratulations to Anna Mironova and Timur Fattakhov on the birth of their daughter

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