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Demographic Barometer:

• Preliminary 2022 Demographic Outcomes in Russia (Part II)
  • The number of deaths in Russia decreased by 22% compared to 2021, amounting to 1.9 million people in 2022, or 13 per 1,000 people
  • The excess number of deaths compared to the average for 2016-2019 decreased in 2022 to 70 thousand
  • In 2020-2021, the number of deaths increased due to an increase in mortality in middle and older ages and an increase in the number of people 60 years and older
  • Life expectancy at birth increased in 2022, according to preliminary data, by 2.7 years, coming to 72.8 years
  • Infant mortality in Russia decreased slightly, coming to 4.5‰ according to preliminary data for January-December 2022

Q&A

• Women want to decide for themselves whether they need maternity leave in the first trimester of pregnancy
• Aging: accept or fight it?
• Only 4 out of 10 companies are ready to consider retirees on an equal footing with younger candidates
• Russians assess availability of paid services in the field of medicine, education and transport
• Romir: the world’s relation to religion

In the vastness of Russia

• Natural population decline in January 2023 decreased by 28%
• Russian regions will analyze their demographic potential
• In Moscow, the number of large families has almost tripled in 10 years
• Maternity capital can’t be limited for those giving birth abroad
• Will the size of Russia’s labor force not change until 2030?
• Shortage of qualified personnel will be the main challenge in Russian labor market
• Putin signs law simplifying procedure for renouncing Ukrainian citizenship
• Has the number of refugees in the Russian Federation from the territory of Ukraine and Donbass exceeded 5.4 million people?
• Russia simplifies process of obtaining residence permit for foreign IT-specialists
• Ministry of Internal Affairs agrees to increase validity period of migrant work licenses
• Business asks authorities to abolish work licenses for migrant drivers
• HRC likes how Kaluga region is fighting illegal migration
• The number of migrants deported from Russia increased by 2.5 times in 2022
• The number of migrants expelled from Moscow has doubled
• Migrants to be vaccinated against measles and diphtheria
• Mortality from diseases of the circulatory system has decreased by 12.5% in five years
• Ministry of Health approves recommendations for treatment of severe pain

World News

• Chinese authorities will actively respond to reduction in population growth
• French Senate approves final draft of pension reform
• Over past year, 8,544 citizens of Russia and Ukraine applied for Georgian citizenship
• China will issue all types of visas again from March 15
• UN unhappy with new UK migration bill
• Sunak denies unlawfulness of UK asylum ban for illegal migrants
• UK and Rwanda sign updated immigration agreement
• EU intends to allocate €500 million by 2025 to receive 50,000 refugees
• Italian government approves decree to combat smuggling of migrants
• Since the beginning of last year, 22,000 Russians have arrived in Argentina
• Over the past five months, a record 25 thousand Russians have entered the US through the border with Mexico
• The United States resumes deportation of Russians
• About 7.2 million Venezuelans have left the country for economic reasons
• Fighting cancer will cost the world economy $25 trillion over 30 years
• First woman cured of HIV after stem cell transplant
• The consequences of COVID-19 for the psyche are not as significant as previously thought
• WHO hopes to declare end of COVID-19 pandemic this year
• Drought killed 43,000 in Somalia in 2022
• Cholera is spreading rapidly in 11 African countries
• Only one percent of Earth’s territory still has clean air
• Finland named happiest country in the world for sixth time

The newspapers write about…

• RBK on the reproductive intentions of Russian women
• Nezavisimaya Gazeta on the double demographic burden on women
• Izvestia on a unified allowance for pregnant women and children
• Novye Izvestia on the change in the working-age population
• Kommersant on scenarios for the development of the Russian labor market
• Forbes on Russia's loss of human capital
• Kommersant on attracting teenagers to the labor market
• Rossiyskaya Gazeta on amnesty offer for some deported migrants
• RBK on proposal to deprive migrants of parental rights for refusing to send their children to school
• Kommersant on upcoming innovations in the law on Russian citizenship
• Novye Izvestia on extraditions to the homeland
• TASS on the fight against alcohol addiction
• RBK on the fight against expired drugs
• Novye Izvestia on the cessation of publication of statistics on herd immunity and the number of vaccinated on the portal "Stopcoronavirus"
• Kommersant on proposal to abolish requirement to conduct clinical trials of foreign drugs in Russia
• Kommersant and Nezavisimaya Gazeta on Russians' saving on medical services and inequality in access to medicine
• Novye Izvestia on the problems of poor-quality treatment in polyclinics
• Kommersant on the Russian language in the post-Soviet space
• RBK on Russia's refusal to study the knowledge of schoolchildren

Read books and magazines

• Europe health report 2021
• Migration Atlas of the Russian Federation
• World social report 2023: leaving no one behind in an aging world
• The demographic yearbook of Poland 2022
• Global status report on physical activity 2022: country profiles
• Through the pages of the magazines Naseleniye i Ekonomika (Population and Economics) and Ekonomicheskoye razvitiye Rossii (Economic Development of Russia)
• Contents of the Journal of Marriage and Family

Profession: researcher

• Economic effects of shifts in the age structure. Meeting of the Demographic Section of the Central House of Scientists
• "Assessment of the quality of mortality statistics by causes in the regions of Russia". Seminar of the A.G. Vishnevsky Institute of Demography of the National Research University Higher School of Economics "Demographic Challenges of the 21st Century"