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Demographic barometer

• World Population Growth and Sustainable Development
  • World population continues to grow rapidly and will continue to increase in the next 30-40 years
  • The population of sub-Saharan Africa will double by 2050, while the population of Europe will decline by 5%
  • By 2020, life expectancy at birth had increased globally to 73 years
  • Total fertility declined globally to 2.4 children per woman by 2020
  • Migration makes a significant contribution to the change in the population of countries and macroregions
  • Age structure has inertial effect on population dynamics

Population and society

• Ward Kingkade. Some results from the 2020 US Census

Q&A

• For a fulfilling life, Russians above all need a family
• Russians on raising children
• Equity in healthcare provision
• Passport as a database: do we need new "stamps"?

In the vastness of Russia

• Russian Ministry of Defense reports losses in Ukraine for first time: 498 soldiers killed
• Birth and death certificates go electronic
• From September 1, it will be possible to enroll a child in kindergarten remotely
• Zakharova has not confirmed ban on issuance of Schengen visas to citizens of the Russian Federation
• Citizens of Ukraine, DPR and LPR will be helped to obtain a residence permit and citizenship in Russia
• Government reduces amount of financial assistance allocated for payments to refugees from Ukraine
• "Gosuslugi" service adds page for foreign citizens
• Patrushev is sure that most migrants disregard Russian norms of behavior
• Peskov says Russia welcomes migrants
• Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs warns CIS countries about strict control over the behavior of migrants
• Migrants will be expelled from the country for drunk driving and bribes
• Not enough places in Temporary Detention Center for foreign citizens awaiting deportation
• Restrictions on migrant labor in Russian regions do not apply to citizens of Kyrgyzstan
• Ministry of Health simplifies procedure for medical examination of foreigners
• Do schools need quotas for migrant children?
• Most Covid-19 survivors experience post-COVID syndrome
• Russians with antibodies to coronavirus will receive a QR code
• Half of the regions have canceled QR codes
• HIV service fund "Humanitarian Action" removed from register of nonprofit foreign agents
• More than half of Russians consider the Russian healthcare system to be inefficient
• Authorities to ban information about Childfree and radical feminism
• Are Russians moving from megacities to the suburbs?

World News

• Global economy predicted to lose $1 trillion by 2023 due to Ukraine situation
• Mortality in Latvia may decrease, but fertility will fall
• About 950,000 residents of Donbass have applied for Russian citizenship
• Over 1 million people have left Ukraine since start of Russian special operation
• Airbnb will provide housing for hundreds of thousands of refugees from Ukraine
• Bulgaria bans issuance of "golden passports"
• Taliban* forbids NATO and US allies to leave Afghanistan
• Kosovo authorities will fight corruption to reduce youth emigration
• Kyrgyz authorities ask Russia to open branch of migration center in Bishkek
• In Tajikistan, 922 persons living with HIV
• Only 23% of patients with depression worldwide receive 'minimal adequate' treatment
• Omicron wave in US ending
• WHO considers coronavirus pandemic may be over by the end of 2022
• WHO announces risk of new dangerous strain of COVID-19
• Columbia court decriminalizes abortion before sixth month of pregnancy

The newspapers write about…

• FederalPress and RBK on refugees from Ukraine
• Moskovskaya Gazeta, Rossiyskaya Gazeta and Nezavisimaya Gazeta on labor migration in Russia
• Novaya Gazeta on the fight against migrants breaking Russian laws
• Novaya Gazeta on the problems of labor migrants in connection with the sanctions
• Novaya Gazeta on migrants with HIV
• Znak.com on problems with the implementation of the resettlement program for compatriots
• Kommersant on improving the epidemiological situation
• Izvestiya on male supermortality
• Novaya Gazeta on the national project "Oncology"
• Izvestiya on savings for old age

Read books and magazines

• Family and demographic processes in modern Russia
• Social status and standard of living of the population of Russia. 2021
• Responding to violence against women and children during the COVID-19 pandemic: impact on service delivery, policies and interventions in the WHO European Region
• Results of the population census of the Republic of Belarus in 2019
• Children of Kazakhstan 2016-2020
• Through the pages of the magazines Narodonaseleniye (Population) and Suitsidologiya (Suicidology)
• Contents of the journal Population Studies

Profession: researcher

• "Modern fertility trends in Russia". Meeting of the Demographic Section of the CDU RAS