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Demographic Barometer

• Older generations of Russians, 2024
  • People over working age make up 24.5% of the total population of Russia, in 2045 their share may exceed 27%
  • The demographic burden of older ages is 430 people over working age per 1000 people of working age; in 2045 it could range from 461 to 514
  • The share of the population over working age varies from 10% to 30% of the population of the regions of the Russian Federation
  • At the mortality rate of 2022, 62% of boys and 84% of girls born will survive to the age of 65 in Russia

Q&A

• Reproductive health of Russians: men vs. women
• One in six Russians rates state family policy highly, one in three believes its effectiveness has increased
• Russians on technologies in medicine and chipping
• Emigration sentiments and attitudes towards those who left: March 2024
• Housing for a young family: from needs to plans
• Russians say at what age they would like to retire

In the vastness of Russia

• Could Russia's population grow to 160 million people?
• Central Bank proposes six steps to combat poverty
• Almost 60% of Russians are ready to pay for their child’s college education
• Secondary education system will be adjusted to the needs of the economy
• More than half of Russian companies allow their employees to work remotely
• Almost half of job applicants are interested in the manufacturing sector
• Ambulance workers were not included among those receiving additional payments
• Demand of Russian IT-specialists for residence permit programs in Europe has sharply increased
• Klishas calls for finding balance between migration security and the need for labor
• State Duma approves bill to combat fictive marriages of migrants
• Kaliningrad region introduces support measures for repatriates
• Five universities warn against violating Russian exam requirements for migrants
• Russian Language Institute proposes changing exams for migrants
• Over 400 migrants expelled from Moscow after Crocus terrorist attack
• Ministry of Finance again proposes increasing minimum vodka price to 299 rubles
• Around 700 thousand patients with hepatitis C in Russia
• Due to iodine deficiency, more than 3 million adults and 400 thousand children require endocrinological care every year
• By December, 173 thousand people will receive medical care at home
• Russia launches mass weight loss experiment
• Only 13% of Russians surveyed rate their health negatively
• National vaccination calendar will include four more vaccines

World News

• Japan's indigenous population fell by 837 thousand people over year
• The share of young Ukrainian men aged 20 to 30 has dropped to a minimum
• Israel to introduce electronic entry permit system for tourists
• European Parliament votes for tough reform of EU migration policy
• Hungarian government will not support new EU Migration Pact
• Polish Prime Minister calls EU migration pact unacceptable for his country
• Heads of Ministry of Internal Affairs of Finland and Estonia try to solve migration problems together
• Britain needs freedom of action to tackle illegal migration
• Tajikistan calls for sensible management of labor migration
• Senate of Kazakhstan approves ban on entry into the country of foreigners convicted of pedophilia, extremism and terrorism
• 700 carriers of illegal migrants detained at German borders over six months
• Mortality from COVID-19 in the world decreased by 41% in March
• Prostate cancer is the most common form of cancer in men in more than 100 countries
• Mental health of world’s youth is worse than that of older groups
• Kazakhstan Senate adopts law on protection of victims of domestic violence
• Dushanbe needs $111 million to improve air quality and reduce deaths
• Increasing brain size helps fight Alzheimer's disease
• One person in the world has an average of nine sexual partners in a lifetime

The newspapers write about…

• Rossiyskaya Gazeta on migration policy
• RBK on reform of EU migration legislation
• Kommersant on ways to fill personnel shortage in Russia
• RBK on Russian language exams for migrants
• Esli byt’ tochnym on Russia’s participation in international research and its results
• Nezavisimaya Gazeta on long-term savings program
• RBK on "squeezing out" pensioners from public sector
• Vedomosti on the fight against fictitious marriages
• Novye Izvestia on the increase in the number of divorces
• RBK on single-parent families in Russia
• Lenta.ru on transferring children to home schooling
• Vedomosti on fertility of children of different birth orders
• Forbes on the advantages and disadvantages of different types of contraception
• Kommersant on the fight against vaping
• Novye Izvestia on the departure of foreign pharmaceutical companies
• Kommersant on preventing iodine deficiency
• Kommersant on the decriminalization of medical practice
• Esli byt’ tochnym on the survival rate of patients with cancer
• Novye Izvestia on the rating of comfortable cities
• Kommersant on tightening weapons regulations
• Nezavisimaya Gazeta on measuring poverty

Read books and magazines

• Tuberculosis surveillance and monitoring in Europe 2024. 2022 data
• Denmark. Health Systems in Transition
• Population studies in the Western Balkans
• Population and Housing Census of the Kyrgyz Republic 2022
• Migration policy in Russia: trends and development paths
• Through the pages of the journals Voprosy Statistiki (Issues of Statistics) and Mediko-sotsialnaya ekspertiza i reabilitatsiya (Medical and Social Expertise and Rehabilitation)
• Contents of the journal "Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health"

Profession: researcher

• 130 years since the birth of Boleslav Yakovlevich Smulevich