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Demographic Barometer

• Migration in Russia, preliminary results for 2023
  • In 2023, net migration in Russia, according to preliminary data, exceeded 204 thousand people, including 110 thousand people in population exchange with other countries
  • Russia again experienced net migration growth in 2023 only in population exchange with Tajikistan - about 82 thousand people
  • The number of migrants moving within Russia increased by 0.7% in 2023
  • In 2023, due to migration exchange with CIS countries the population of 57 out of 85 regions increased, due to exchange with other regions of Russia - 29
  • The number of internally displaced persons and refugees in Russia continued to decline in 2023

Q&A

• Roles of men and women in the family
• Is an apartment for the kids the parents’ duty?
• Most adult Russians prefer to live separately from their parents
• Z and Alpha: basic attitudes of generations
• On the religiosity of Russians
• Only 44% of employers have no bias against hiring pensioners

In the vastness of Russia

• Kremlin announces necessary number of inhabitants for Russia
• Putin is again asked to introduce post of demography chief
• Register of large families in Russian Federation will begin to function on July 1, 2024
• Proposal to increase maternity capital in regions with low fertility
• Over 40% of married Russians positively assess state support measures for families with many children
• Putin calls for taking lesson from Chechens with many children
• In Russia, it turns out to be impossible not only to register same-sex marriages, but also to dissolve them
• Government approves allocation of money for elderly care projects
• Commitment to healthy lifestyle depends on the region of residence
• School course “Family Studies” will be extracurricular and optional
• Personnel shortage will continue in coming years
• Business increases spending on headhunting
• Organizational recruitment will tie migrants to employer
• State wants to allow migrants to use same work license in several regions
• In Moscow, the incidence of tuberculosis is lower than Russian average
• Russian regions have enough medicines from list of vitally needed drugs for more than eight months
• State Duma adopts bill on release of prisoners with serious illnesses
• Some 9 thousand children to be evacuated from Belgorod region

World News

• Germany's birth rate falls to lowest level since 2009
• Bulgaria and Romania will begin issuing Schengen visas to Russians from April 1
• EU tentatively agrees on conditions for freezing visa-free travel with third countries
• Mexico condemns Texas anti-immigration law
• EU must respond to the use of migration for political pressure
• Biden and Trump differ on their assessments of illegal migrants
• UK will pay refugees to voluntarily move to Rwanda
• Anti-Covid measures have rid world of contagious flu strain
• New bacterial infection spreading rapidly in Japan
• The number of dengue cases in Brazil has exceeded figures for all of 2023
• Denmark has created the most effective anti-obesity drug
• Markers in the blood will help determine a person’s biological age
• India ready to cooperate more closely with Russian Federation in healthcare

The newspapers write about…

• RBK on expanding the federal population register with new information about Russians
• Novye Izvestia on the income of migrants
• Novye Izvestia on the first case of deprivation of acquired citizenship
• RBK on the growing number of Russian residents in Argentina
• TASS on the migration crisis in Great Britain
• Nezavisimaya Gazeta on the connection between living standards and birth rates
• RBK on a portrait of women facing reproductive choice
• Izvestia on reducing family mortgage rates for the birth of children
• Novye Izvestia on Family Studies
• Kommersant on the economic problems of Russian families
• Kommersant on a failure in the information system of the Ministry of Labor
• TASS on the challenges of Switzerland’s pension system
• Novye Izvestia and Vedomosti on personnel shortage
• Novye Izvestia and Kommersant on proposal to send medical students to the front
• Kommersant on protecting the interests of a doctor in cases of medical errors
• Esli byt’ tochnym on the quality of mortality statistics
• Novye Izvestia on obesity in different countries
• Expert on world’s coming depopulation
• RBK on reducing the prison population

Read books and magazines

• The changing climate and public health: problems of adaptation
• Regional features of reproductive behavior of urban Kazakh women
• Global spending on health: coping with the pandemic
• Social inequalities in childhood cancers in the WHO European Region
• The demographic yearbook of Poland 2023
• Through the pages of the journals Demograficheskoye Obozreniye (Demographic Review) and Sibirskiy Onkologicheskiy Zhurnal (Siberian Oncology Journal)
• Contents of the journal Population & Societies

Profession: researcher

• Happy birthday to Olga Sergeevna Chudinovskikh
• Demographic policy in the USSR on the eve and during the Great Patriotic War (1939-1945). Meeting of the Demographic Section of the Central House of Scientists