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Demographic Barometer

• Crime in Russia, 2022
  • In 2022, the number of crimes registered in Russia decreased by 1.9%, the number of deaths as a result of criminal attacks - by 9.1%
  • In 2022, the number of crimes against persons decreased by 5.5%, the number of crimes against property - by 2.2%
  • The number of victims in road accidents continues to decline: the number of deaths decreased by 4.7%, the number of injured - by 4.9%
  • In 2022, 819,000 people were identified as having committed crimes
  • In 2022, about 579,000 people received court sentences that have entered into force
  • As of January 1, 2023, 433,000 people were incarcerated

Q&A

• For everyone and without state control: on social support for families with children
• 9% of working women have had to deal with the negative reaction of the employer to their pregnancy
• The burden of stroke: the Russian experience
• Fewer Russians planning to work after retirement
• Secondary vocational education growing more popular, higher education – less popular
• Most Belarusians say they don’t plan to leave the country

In the vastness of Russia

• Life expectancy up in Russia
• Kudrin says 10 years of maternity capital payments have affected the birth rate by “about 20%”
• Opinions of Russians on state support for families with children are split down the middle
• Average Russian considers 47,000 rubles a decent pension
• Raising incomes is the most important national goal for Russians
• Ministry of Justice planning to abolish the possibility of changing the gender on your passport
• Russian enterprises experience record shortage of personnel
• More than 106,000 foreigners have received Russian citizenship over three months
• Russia will no longer require visas for citizens of Georgia
• Russian tour operators begin offering tours to EU countries
• Has the number of citizens of Uzbekistan working in the Russian Federation quadrupled in 7 years?
• Ministry of Internal Affairs to revoke migrant work permits at the request of the employer
• Foreigners can register through "Gosuslugi"
• At the end of 2022, crime among migrants had increased by 10%
• Ministry of Health considers possibility of introducing new anti-alcohol measures
• Rospotrebnadzor chief notes decrease in the incidence of measles in Russia
• With measles on the rise, children and adults up to 35 years will be subject to "clean-up" immunization
• Total morbidity in Russia has increased by 3.8 per cent
• Ministry of Health has developed a questionnaire for women considering abortion
• Proposal to hand over some doctor’s duties to nurses

World News

• According to the UN, India’s population has already overtaken China’s.
• Japan's population predicted to shrink by a third in 50 years
• The number of children in Japan declining for the 42nd year in a row
• Uruguay raises retirement age to 65
• Japan to increase the number of women in leadership positions by 30% by 2030
• 640 million girls worldwide marry as children
• US and Britain increase number of "talent visas" for Russians severalfold
• More than a third of those who came to Georgia in 2022 are Russians
• Influx of qualified Russians to Serbia helping country's economy
• Pope believes that the problem of migration should be solved by the EU as a whole
• EU warns Britain against deporting migrants to Rwanda
• German interior minister proposes tougher EU asylum policy
• Lithuanian Seimas legalizes procedure for ousting illegal migrants from the country
• WHO cancels state of emergency due to COVID-19 pandemic
• At least 20 million people have died from COVID-19 worldwide
• The total number of deaths from starvation among Kenya cult has reached 98
• Fentanyl overdose deaths in the US have quadrupled in recent years

The newspapers write about…

• Kommersant on revised citizenship law
• Kommersant on the peculiarities of registering migrants
• Rossiyskaya Gazeta on wages and competition between migrants and Russians
• Kommersant on "record" number of internally displaced persons
• Kommersant on the accessibility of kindergartens for children of migrants
• Kommersant on migration problems in Germany
• RBK on trips across the border of Russia
• Kommersant on restoring healthcare systems after the pandemic
• Izvestia on birth support measures
• Kommersant on reproductive plans and talk about them
• Nezavisimaya Gazeta and RIA Novosti on a shortage of young people in the labor market
• Novye Izvestia on a proposal to bring back compulsory job assignments for college grads
• Izvestia on the creation of a network of population centers
• Rossiyskaya Gazeta, RBK and Kommersant on the incidence of measles
• RBK on a decrease in the number of the very old
• RBK on a decrease in the percentage of the poor
• Nezavisimaya Gazeta on the decline in incomes of the population
• Nezavisimaya Gazeta on life satisfaction
• Izvestia on the difficulties of work of non-governmental social organizations
• Izvestia on accompanied accommodation
• RBK on electronic register of conscripts
• Kommersant on the Chinese language in Russia
• Kommersant on the age of youth

Read books and magazines

• World Population Report 2023
• WHO European initiative on childhood obesity surveillance: Tajikistan
• Gender and noncommunicable diseases in Belarus: analysis of steps data
• Demography statistics, 2021
• Monitoring of indicators of sustainable development goals (SDGs) in the CIS region 2017-2021
• Through the pages of the journals Voprosy Statistiki (Questions of Statistics) and Mediko-sotsialnaya ekspertiza i reabiitatsiya (Medico-Social Expertise and Rehabilitation)
• Contents of the journal Population

Profession: researcher

• A new wave of emigration: some results of a longitudinal qualitative study. Meeting of the Demographic Section of the Central House of Scientists
• Happy birthday to Vladimir Mikhailovich Shkolnikov
• Publications of V.M. Shkolnikov since 2011
• Happy birthday to Maria Yuryevna Mezhevova
• 90 years since the birth of Valentina Andreevna Belova

Student page

• On the Master’s degree in Demography