Contents of Demoscope Weekly issue

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Demographic barometer:

  • Foreign labor force in Russia in 2021
    • The number of foreigners with a valid work permit in Russia increased by the end of 2021 to 54 thousand people; the number of foreigners with a valid work license exceeded 2 million people
    • Foreign workers who arrived in Russia in 2021 were predominantly from Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan
    • Foreign workers in Russia are predominately men - 88%, including 66% aged 18-39
    • More than half of labor migrants from abroad are still attracted to work in the capital regions, St. Petersburg standing out with 7.4% of foreigners in the labor force
    • The volume of personal remittances of international migrants sent from Russia to CIS countries increased by 12% in 2021

Population and Society

  • Olga Isupova. Denial of COVID-19 and resistance to measures to combat it: qualitative and quantitative research of social media communities in social networks

Q&A

  • Coronavirus and vaccination
  • Emigration moods (Levada Center)
  • Emigration moods (VtsIOM)
  • Emigration moods (FOM)
  • Fewer Russian companies allowing remote work
  • Americans love working remotely

2020 Census

  • How many people live in Russia: Rosstat announces first census results
  • Rosstat gives preliminary census data
  • Rosstat says about 147 million people permanently live in Russia
  • The population of Moscow in ten years has grown to 13 million people
  • The population of St. Petersburg has grown by 700 thousand in 11 years
  • On the experience of participating in the 2020 Russian Population Census through the State Services portal
  • All-Russian census 2020/21 in the first person

In the vastness of Russia

  • Natural decline in January-February 2022 was 178.7 thousand people
  • In five years, the number of orphans in Russia has decreased by a third
  • Payments to needy families with children will start on 1 May
  • Government preparing new procedure for means testing
  • 28% of Russians do not expect Western sanctions to impact their financial situation
  • Golikova announces increase in the number of employees in idle time
  • State Duma approves presidential bill on citizenship of the Russian Federation
  • Senator Klishas condemns proposal to revoke the citizenship of those receiving "cookies"
  • Highly qualified foreigners will be able to obtain indefinite residence permit in Russia
  • Government intends to update compatriot resettlement program
  • Ministry of Internal Affairs clarifies registration rules for citizens of Ukraine, the DPR and the LPR
  • State Duma proposes to limit travel of civil servants abroad
  • Starting April 1, Russia cancels COVID testing for citizens of EAEU countries entering by land
  • Murashko warns of risk of new coronavirus wave in Russia
  • Share of "stealth omicron" in Russia increases to 80%
  • Ministry of Health registers world's first nasal COVID vaccine
  • Golikova reports 24.5% decrease in incidence of tuberculosis over three years
  • 31% of people with autism of working age have work experience
  • Russia introduces new procedure for assigning disability
  • Duma proposal for “import substitution” of foreign family values
  • In 2022 Russia drops from 60th to 80th place in ranking of happiest countries

World News

  • Since February 24, 1,892 civilians have died in Ukraine, including 153 children.
  • In North Korea, fertility declining
  • World Bank predicts increase in global poverty
  • Afghanistan issues 7.5 million electronic IDs
  • 51 thousand Ukrainian refugees have received refugee status in Bulgaria
  • Austria, Czech Republic and Slovakia to provide assistance to Moldova for the reception of Ukrainian refugees
  • The United States will allocate $50 million in aid to Moldova due to the influx of refugees from Ukraine
  • Ukrainian refugees can get a one-year visa with the right to work in Japan
  • The number of migrants arriving in the EU doubled in 2021
  • Kyrgyzstan asks Russia for "migration amnesty" for Kyrgyz citizens
  • Trains from Kyrgyzstan to the capital of Russia will start running no earlier than 2023
  • 40% of migrants from Uzbekistan express desire to return to their homeland due to unemployment and exchange rate instability
  • India lifts all coronavirus restrictions except masks
  • Fatigue is one of 18 pronounced covid symptoms persisting for one year
  • Mobile phones do not cause brain tumors

The newspapers write about…

  • Kommersant, The Washington Post and Politika on Ukrainian refugees
  • Harvard Business Review Russia on the brain drain
  • RBK on the consequences of the influx of Russians to Armenia
  • Izvestia on the specialist repatriation program
  • Rossiyskaya Gazeta and RBK on migrants at construction sites and the "strengthening" of the ruble
  • Izvestia on the demand for IT specialists
  • RBK on work experience and salary in Russia
  • RBK on the growth of the working-age population
  • Kommersant on unemployment
  • Rossiyskaya Gazeta on the need to modernize the healthcare system
  • Polit.ru on factors of morbidity and mortality from COVID-19
  • HSE Daily on the life and health of the elderly
  • Kommersant on ranking of regions in terms of well-being of pensioners
  • Nezavisimaya Gazeta on proposal to abandon Bologna education system
  • Nezavisimaya Gazeta on preparing university graduates to enter the labor market
  • Izvestia on the maternity capital
  • Forbes on the rating of happiest countries

Read books and magazines

  • Europe health report 2021
  • The Russian family and children's well-being
  • Monitoring of indicators of sustainable development goals (SDGs) in the CIS region 2016-2020
  • OECD labor force statistics 2011-2020
  • Global population growth and sustainable development
  • Through the pages of the journals Profilakticheskaya Meditsina (Preventive Medicine) and Rossiyskiyy Meditsinskiy Zhurnal (Russian Medical Journal)
  • Contents of the magazine Population

Profession: researcher

  • Demographic Sessions at the XXIII Yasinsky (April) International Scientific Conference of the National Research University Higher School of Economics
  • 130 years since the birth of Avdey Ilyich Gozulov
  • A.I. Gozulov. Population censuses of the States of the globe
  • A.I. Gozulov. Dynamics and structural changes in the US population over 200 years

 
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