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Demographic barometer

  • Preliminary demographic results of 2021 in Russia (Part II)
    • In 2021, the number of deaths in Russia increased by 15% compared to 2020, exceeding 2.4 million people; the crude death rate rose to 16.8‰
    • The excess number of deaths in 2021 compared to the average for 2016-2019 exceeded 609 thousand
    • The number of deaths is increasing due to an increase in mortality in middle and older ages and an increase in the population of 60 years and older
    • According to Rosstat, in January-December 2021, almost 518 thousand deaths were registered with a diagnosis of coronavirus infection COVID-19
    • Infant mortality in Russia increased slightly, coming to 4.6‰ according to preliminary data for January-December 2021

Q&A

  • Trust in the healthcare system
  • Assessment of the quality of medical care
  • Post-COVID: we suffer, but don’t get treated
  • Drug addiction in Russia: monitoring
  • More than 7 percent of Americans identify as LGBT

In the vastness of Russia

  • Khabarovsk is the largest city in the Far East
  • Real disposable income of Russians increased by 3.1%
  • Are Russians ready to give up 13th salary for the sake of Donbass?
  • Putin creates Security Council Commission on migration policy
  • Bastrykin calls for tougher immigration laws in Russia
  • Kaluga region forbids hiring migrants to work in trade and catering
  • State Duma calls for freezing compatriot resettlement program
  • Medvedev fears creation of ethnic enclaves
  • Deputy Prime Minister Khusnullin is now also against migrant workers
  • Migrants committed 2% of all crimes in Russia
  • Do children of migrants interfere with Russian schoolchildren's education?
  • Those who have recovered from COVID-19 and with an antibody test will receive a certificate for a year
  • Almost half of Russians take sick leave at the first sign of SARS
  • 7 million Russians due to get post-Covid state medical check-up
  • In Moscow, no children aged 6-11 without antibodies to COVID-19 were found for testing of "Sputnik M"
  • As of March 1, all death certificates will be electronic
  • UN recognizes Moscow as best metropolis in the categories "quality of life" and "infrastructure development"

World News

  • Australia's death rate drops in two years of pandemic
  • EU discusses new migration pact
  • 1,188,000 Kirgiz citizens work abroad
  • Labor migration from Kirgizia will not be reduced
  • In Kirgizia it is thought that "migrants are forced to take Russian citizenship"
  • In January, 90 million cases of covid were detected in the world
  • WHO sees no end to COVID-19 pandemic
  • WHO calls for providing poor countries with COVID-19 vaccines
  • Fourth HIV cure confirmed in US
  • The Netherlands repeal law requiring women to "think" for 5 days before abortion

The newspapers write about…

  • Novaya Gazeta on morbidity and mortality from COVID-19
  • Kommersant on expected increase in cancer mortality
  • Rossiyskaya Gazeta on medical consequences of coronavirus
  • Naked Science on TB
  • Rossiyskaya Gazeta on large families and benefits for large families
  • Kommersant on recording of labor migration
  • Ozodlik on the problems of labor migrants
  • Rossiyskaya Gazeta on migration and unemployment
  • Novaya Gazeta on the income gap between men and women
  • Vazhnye Istorii on statistics in Chechnya

Read books and magazines

  • Demographic development of the post-Soviet countries (1991-2021): trends, demographic policy, prospects
  • Labor and employment in Russia. 2021
  • Electronic registers: their status in Ukraine
  • International Migration Outlook 2021
  • Youth of Kazakhstan 2016-2020
  • Through the pages of the magazines Demograficheskoye Obozreniye (Demographic Review) and Orgzdrav: Novosti, mneniya, obucheniye. Vestnik VShOUZ (Orgzdrav: news, opinions, training. Bulletin of the Higher School of Public Health)
  • Contents of the Journal of Population Economics

Profession: researcher

  • 85 years since the birth of Rudolf Vartanovich Tatevosov
    • Environment and population migration
    • Tasks of managing the migration processes of the population in the Uzbek SSR
  • Meeting of the HSE Expeditionary Club "Rediscovering Russia"

 
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