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Demographic barometer:

• Morbidity of the population of Russia, 2020-2021
  • In 2020 morbidity decreased for all major classes of diseases except respiratory diseases
  • In 2021 the incidence of acute respiratory viral infections continued to grow, increasing by 15% compared to 2020
  • In 2020 the incidence of COVID-19 was 34 cases per 1,000 people; in 2021, according to preliminary estimates, 50
  • In 2021 the incidence of acute intestinal infections increased by 20%
  • In 2021 the incidence of tuberculosis continued to decline; the incidence of HIV infection remained at about the same level as in 2020

Q&A

• Taking care of health
• The role of Internet in questions of health
• The labor market: main trends
• The situation on the labor market: the view of Russians
• Attitudes towards migrants from Central Asia

In the vastness of Russia

• Life expectancy in Russia in 2021 is 70.06 years
• Mortality in St. Petersburg increased by 19% over the year
• Four million Russians will receive a pension increase starting April 1
• About 100,000 workers are idle
• About 660,000 officially registered unemployed in Russia
• Ministry of Labor does not expect mass layoffs in the Russian Federation
• 40 billion rubles will be allocated to support regional labor market
• France resumes issuing tourist visas to Russian citizens
• Kaspersky suggests using propaganda, reassurances and PR events to stop the emigration of IT specialists
• Bill on asylum and residence permit for citizens of Ukraine and LDNR submitted to State Duma
• There is no outflow of migrants from construction sites
• Medvedev proposes support for highly qualified foreign specialists
• Peak incidence of coronavirus in Russia has passed
• Ministry of Health calls for Russians to be ready for new wave of COVID-19
• Russians are massively depressed
• There will be enough medicines for benefit recipients in the regions for six months
• Ministry of Health may start purchasing medicines in short supply
• It will be possible to register with a polyclinic in another region through the public services portal

World News

• UN reports 1,232 civilian casualties in Ukraine
• The number of people leaving Ukraine since February 24 has exceeded 4 million
• The flow of refugees from Ukraine is a huge challenge for Europe
• Moldovan president asks UN for help taking in Ukrainian refugees
• Ukrainians have become the second largest diaspora in Portugal
• Washington will work on the issue of simplified entry into the United States for citizens of Ukraine
• Mortality in the Czech Republic in 2021 is highest in the last 77 years
• In Sweden, average life expectancy is back to 2019 levels
• Is Italy facing its tenth consecutive record low birth rate?
• The number of marriages and divorces has decreased in South Korea
• Montenegro proposes to pay newborns up to a thousand euros
• WTO chief expects protests in poor countries over rising food prices
• Hungary says migration policy won’t change
• Kirgiz Ministry of Foreign Affairs proposes to stimulate the creation of diasporas abroad
• WHO reports a 43% increase in the number of deaths from covid in the world
• Will COVID-19 be the last pandemic in human history?
• Covid severity will decrease as immunity improves

The newspapers write about…

• Nezavisimaya Gazeta on the impact of the "special operation" on the demographic situation
• Izvestia on social support measures
• Rossiyskaya Gazeta on the labor market
• Vedomosti on the gender pay gap
• Vedomosti on the substitution of imported drugs
• RBK on Russia's withdrawal from the agreement on pensions in the CIS
• RBK on the Russian language in the world
• Realnoe Vremya on Tatars in population censuses
• The Telegraph (UK) on US internal migration
• Foreign Policy on the shrinking white majority in the US
• RBK on euthanasia

Read books and magazines

• Population of Russia 2019
• Preserving the population of Russia: problems, tasks, solutions
• Migration bridges in Eurasia: global and regional dimensions
• Demographic situation in Poland up to 2020. Deaths and mortality
• Microdata in social and economic achievements
• Through the pages of the journals DEMIS and ECO
• Contents of the European Journal of Population

Profession: researcher

• James William Vopel dies
• The relevance of assessing total cardiovascular risk. Seminar of the HSE International Laboratory for Population and Health Research
• "Population aging and loneliness of older people in Russia". Meeting of the Demographic Section of the CDU RAS