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Demographic barometer

• COVID-19 Pandemic: A few demographic results as of June 2022
  • The number of reported cases of COVID-19 has reached 540 million, the death toll is 6.3 million.
  • The highest prevalence of COVID-19 is found in the European region of the WHO, the highest mortality from it - in the American region
  • A total of 153 doses of COVID-19 vaccine per 100 people have been administered worldwide, 61 out of 100 people are fully vaccinated
  • From January 2020 to December 2021, 5.4 million people worldwide died from COVID-19; pandemic-related excess mortality, as estimated by WHO, was 14.9 million people

Scientific digest

• Denisenko M.B., Mkrtchyan N.V. Demographic Changes and Labor Supply in the Russian Regions

Q&A

• Doctors: trust, prestige, profitability of the profession
• How doctors in Russia relate to the conclusions and recommendations of the WHO
• Monkeypox: we’ve heard of it, but aren’t afraid!
• Russians have become less tolerant of holiday romances
• 4 out of 10 women change jobs after maternity leave
• Income inequality: VTsIOM monitoring

In the vastness of Russia

• Mortality rates in Russia fall below pre-pandemic levels
• Infant mortality in Russia has shrunk by almost 2.5 times since 2006
• Putin calls Russia’s demographic situation extremely difficult
• Moscow State University explains reasons for ongoing population decline
• Women in Russia have begun having their first child later
• Real incomes of Russians in 2022 expected to decrease by 6.8%
• Moscow becomes one of Russia’s three most prosperous regions
• More than 1.5 million families have taken advantage of preferential mortgages
• Preferential Family Mortgage Program will be extended to families with children born before the end of 2023
• Fathers with many children may be offered early pension
• 60% of Russians do not trust social networks when looking for a job
• Ministry of Labor chief speaks of growth of tension in labor market
• Ministry of Construction says no shortage of workers at construction sites.
• Ministry of Internal Affairs announces shortage of IT specialists in Russia
• Has the number of refugees arriving in Russia from Ukraine and Donbass exceeded 2 million?
• Citizens of the LDNR and Ukraine can stay in Russia after August 17
• Have anti-alcohol measures saved the lives of 3.5 million Russians?
• Mortality from cancer in the Russian Federation decreased by 3.8% over the year
• Russia abortion ban will not solve problem of low fertility
• Rosstat records sharp decrease in mortality from COVID
• Over half of Russians treat medical problems with information from Internet

World News

• By 2050, the population of Moldova will decrease by almost a third
• Afghan nomads have begun receiving electronic identity cards
• EU introduces new Schengen visa procedure
• Germany lifts entry ban and resumes issuing visas to Russians
• Ukraine introduces visa requirement for Russian citizens as of July 1
• Turkey to reduce quota for foreigners living in country to 20%
• Number of Ukrainian refugees exceeds 8 million people
• WHO reports 90% reduction in global Covid cases
• WHO chief calls for continuing widespread covid vaccination
• Sputnik V could still be recognized in Europe
• More than 2,000 cases of monkeypox confirmed in 42 countries
• Monkeypox virus to be renamed
• Abortions continue to fall in Sweden
• Zelensky signs law on ratification of Istanbul Convention against Domestic Violence
• Taliban* compares women without a hijab to animals

The newspapers write about…

• Nezavisimaya Gazeta and RBK on risk of global food and migration crisis
• The Guardian on Ukrainian refugees
• Kommersant on the statistics of refugee numbers
• RBK on "temporary protection" in Russia
• Profile on migration in Russia
• Forbes on the "return of IT people"
• Kommersant on the future of the Russian labor market
• NEWS.ru on the decline in fertility
• Izvestia on the possibility of choosing the duration of maternity leave
• RIA Novosti on criminal abortions
• RBK and Kommersant on the abolition of abortion rights in the United States
• RIA Novosti, TASS and Eurasianet on the new wave of COVID-19
• Izvestia on the consequences of COVID-19
• Kommersant on replacing HIV drugs with cheap analogues and the shortage of drugs
• Novye Izvestia on the demand for private schools
• Nature on the origin of the plague
• Polit.ru on religiosity and corruption

Read books and magazines

• HIV infection. Newsletter No. 46
• Society at a Glance: Asia Pacific 2022
• The state of oncological care for the population of Russia in 2021
• Youth in statistics, 2020
• Favorable living conditions for older people in Europe. Indicators, monitoring and evaluation
• Through the pages of the journals Problemy sotsialnoy gigieny, zdravookhraneniya i istorii meditsiny (Problems of Social Hygiene, Health and the History of Medicine) and Problemy prognozirovaniya (Problems of Forecasting)
• Contents of the journal Studies in Family Planning

Profession: researcher

• Morbidity and mortality of children in Moscow in the 1940s. Seminar of the Laboratory of Economics of Population and Demography and the Department of Population of the Faculty of Economics of Moscow State University

New in the reading room

• A.I. Kuzmin. The family in the Urals (demographic aspects of the choice of a life path)