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Demographic barometer

• The population of the BRICS countries according to 2022 estimates
  • The combined population of the BRICS countries is about 3.3 billion people, or 41% of the world's population, but this share is declining
  • The transition to modern mortality in the BRICS countries continues
  • In Russia, fertility has not ensured simple reproduction since the mid-1960s, in China since the 1990s, and in Brazil since the 2000s
  • Population aging is occurring in all BRICS countries, but its degree varies significantly

Q&A

• Normative views on marriage, children, and family roles
• Public Health: in pursuit of quality
• Unemployment in Russia: monitoring
• The amount of material assistance to parents has increased over year and a half
• No illusions left: over last 12 years interest in life in other countries has more than halved

In the vastness of Russia

• Maternity Capital program extended until the end of 2026
• From 2023 a new unified benefit for families with children will appear in Russia
• Putin proposes to revoke acquired citizenship for "fake news" about army
• Ministry of Labor to expand list of professions eligible for simplified citizenship
• Ministry of Digital Development to create program to bring back IT specialists who left Russia
• About 100,000 Russians who left the country remain in Georgia
• Matvienko is sure that most emigrants will return to Russia
• Hundreds of evacuated Belgorod residents have arrived in Moscow region
• About 6 million foreigners in Russia
• Has the number of refugees from Ukraine and Donbas increased to 4.6 million?
• Proposal to reduce quotas for foreign workers from far abroad to 79 thousand
• Moskalkova proposes to ease rules for deportation of migrants for administrative offenses
• Ministry of Health considers data of Academician Pokrovsky on the number of HIV-infected people to be an estimate
• HIV patients claim major drug shortage
• Spending of Russians on antidepressants has risen by more than 50%
• Golikova proposes to ban abortions for teenagers without parental consent
• Women planning an abortion and women continuing pregnancy will be assigned to different wards
• Number of IVF procedures performed has increased by 40% in five years
• Ministry of Health of Russian Federation and WHO European Office agree on regular contacts

World News

• World population has exceeded 8 billion people
• Over the past 200 years, world's population has increased eightfold
• Serbia is a "magnet" for IT specialists from Russia
• Mass relocation of Russians strengthens economies and national currencies of Armenia and Georgia
• More than 1 million refugees from Ukraine registered in Germany
• About 7.5 million people have entered Poland from Ukraine since February
• Not all EU member states satisfied with system for granting asylum to migrants
• Asylum system for migrants in the United States does not work
• Sweden intends to reduce refugee quota fivefold
• Due to Covid, 25 million children have not received routine vaccinations
• At least 15 thousand people in Europe died due to the heat in 2022
• Uganda confirms 130 Ebola cases
• WHO predicts more than a billion people will have hearing problems due to headphones
• Kangaroo care for premature and small babies should be used as early as possible

The newspapers write about…

• Izvestia, The Times, RBK and REN TV on 8 billion people on Earth and the future of the world population
• RBK on the departure of Russians abroad
• Kommersant and RBK on IT specialists who have left and returned
• Rossiyskaya Gazeta on legal changes in migration
• RBK on another ground for deprivation of Russian citizenship
• Kommersant on the organized recruitment of labor migrants from Uzbekistan
• RBK on Ukrainian refugees
• Rzeczpospolita on Ukrainian refugees
• Novye Izvestia on the decline in fertility and the number of children
• Gazeta.pl on low fertility in Poland
• Novye Izvestia on high fertility in Tyva
• Polit.ru on the decline in male fertility
• Novye Izvestia on the decline in the number of Russians
• TASS on the coronavirus situation in Russia and the world
• Kommersant on the number of HIV-infected people in Russia
• Rossiyskaya Gazeta on HIV treatment
• Kommersant on the problem of diabetes
• Kommersant on child poverty
• Kommersant on the usefulness of grandparents
• RBK on the quality of life of the elderly
• Izvestiya on guardianship by grandparents
• Polit.ru on alcohol consumption in the world
• Gazeta Wyborcza on alcohol consumption in Poland
• Kommersant on the quality of mass education

Read books and magazines

• Global Tuberculosis Report 2022
• Family and children in Russia. 2021
• International Migration Outlook 2022
• Report mapping Kyrgyz diasporas, compatriots and migrants abroad
• Women and men in Azerbaijan
• Through the pages of the journals ORGZDRAV: Novosti, mneniya, obucheniye. Vestnik VShOUZ (ORGZDRAV: news, opinions, training. VShOUZ Bulletin) and Mirovaya ekonomika i mezhdunarodnye otnosheniya (World economy and international relations)
• Contents of the journal Population and Environment

Profession: researcher

• Excess mortality in cities and regions of European Russia during the heat wave of 2010. Seminar of the student society "Demographer"
• On the anniversary of the death of Zh.A. Zayonchkovskaya. Interview with the daughter of Zh.A. Zaionchkovskaya and V.I. Perevedentsev, Alexandra Perevedentseva