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Demographic barometer

• Disabled people in Russia, 2023
  • At the beginning of 2023, 10.9 million people with disabilities were registered in Russia, or 7.5% of the country’s total population
  • Most disabled persons in Russia belong to groups II and III - 41% each; disabled people of group I make up about 12%, and children with disabilities more than 6%
  • 64 per cent of the disabled in Russia are older than working age, including 41 per cent of women over working age
  • The number of children with disabilities at the beginning of 2023 came to 722,000 people, or 2.4% of the population under 18
  • General illness is the cause of disabilities of 84% of disabled persons 18 years old and older; another 12% have been disabled since childhood
  • The number of people recognized as disabled for the first time decreased in 2021 to 536,000 people, or 4.6 per 1,000 persons

Q&A

• On fertility
• A portrait of Russians planning to have a child
• A sore subject: Russians on HIV and AIDS
• Russians and religion
• 37% of Russians approve of ban on sale of hard alcohol to those under 21, another 36% of ban on any alcohol product

In the vastness of Russia

• Mortality in first quarter fell by more than 21%
• Maxim Oreshkin disappointed with results of demographic policy
• Peskov acknowledges difficult demographic situation in Russia
• Ministry of Labor proposes to consider families with three or more children large
• Ministry of Justice announces bill banning change of gender in documents
• Putin approves strategy for comprehensive safety of children in Russia
• Russia to create register of needy citizens in 2023
• By 2030, Russia will need 2.5 million more workers
• Vice-President of Russian Academy of Sciences reports loss of 50,000 scientists over five years
• The popularity of higher education is declining, while that of secondary special education is growing
• Putin simplifies acquisition of citizenship for foreign contractors
• Goal of reducing outflow of Russians included in updated Migration Policy Concept
• Migration Policy Concept supplemented with measures to adapt migrants and their children
• Russia to try to attract more foreign workers
• Government finalizing draft law on entry and departure of foreigners
• Bastrykin says migrants attacking Russia from inside
• Ministry of Health approves list of diseases with which social services will be denied

World News

• G7 countries vow to tackle declining global life expectancy
• Deaths from COVID-19 have led to the loss of more than 336 million years of life
• Since the start of the special operation, Ukraine has lost more than 30% of its workforce
• ECHR obliges Romania to recognize same-sex marriages
• Serbia changes its mind on fast-tracking citizenship for Russians
• Germany agrees on bill to simplify the acquisition of citizenship
• Kazakhstan and EU to hold consultations on visa facilitation
• Germany switches to new protocol in Russia for accepting visa application documents
• Mexico to stop issuing transit visas to US migrants
• US tightens entry rules for migrants
• Have some 6.5 million migrants illegally crossed the US southern border since 2021?
• More than 1.5 million people in the US have applied for migrant sponsorship
• German government to allocate €1 billion to federal states to help refugees
• More than a thousand Russians have requested asylum in Finland due to mobilization
• Sweden to issue work permits to highly skilled migrants faster
• Germany concerned about increase in drug-related deaths
• Ireland to be first country to introduce health risk labels on alcohol
• WHO cancels state of emergency due to monkeypox
• UN concerned about spread of cholera in the world
• The number of overweight children in Europe and Central Asia is on the rise
• Breast cancer screening should start at age 40
• Vaccines will be administered with a patch
• WHO European Office to continue cooperation with Russia

The newspapers write about…

• Kommersant on migration policy
• RBK on possibly keeping 13-15% income tax for relocators
• RBK on the shortage of workers in the labor market
• Novye Izvestia and RBK on continuing to work at retirement age
• RBK on lowering unemployment
• Advance on world population dynamics
• Novye Izvestia on the side effects of Covid vaccines
• Nezavisimaya Gazeta on Russia's lag in life expectancy
• Vedomosti on the lack of funding for the fight against diabetes
• Kommersant on complaints about the treatment of cardiovascular diseases
• RBK on the reasons for the return of measles
• Kommersant on inspections in connection with the death of orphans in a boarding school
• TASS on medical abortion in Japan
• Izvestia on proposal to decriminalize pedophilia
• RIA Novosti on a region development rating
• Read books and magazines
• World Migration Report 2022
• Health at a glance: Latin America and the Caribbean 2023
• Gender and noncommunicable diseases in Georgia: analysis of steps data
• World Malaria Report 2022
• Gender Statistics, 2022
• Through the pages of the journals Demograficheskoye Obozreniye (Demographic Review) and Vestnik MGU. Seriya 5. Geografiya (Bulletin of Moscow State University. Series 5. Geography)
• Contents of the journal Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health

Profession: researcher

• The preference for sons and its effect on fertility in Central Asia and the Middle East: the experience of comparing cohorts. Seminar of the HSE International Laboratory for Population and Health Research
• Young scientists on demographic problems. Meeting of the Demographic Section of the Central House of Scientists
• The city going outside the city. Section at the international scientific conference "HOMO URBANUS: man in an urban environment"
• 95 years since the birth of Igor Semenovich Kon
• Remembering Zh.A. Zayonchkovskaya. Projects under the direction of Zh.A. Zayonchkovskaya

New in the Reading Room

• Kon I.S. Introduction to Sexology