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Demographic barometer

• Population of CIS countries: how its composition is changing
  • Population censuses of the 2020 World Round were conducted in 9 CIS countries
  • The share of the urban population in the CIS countries ranges from 29% in Tajikistan to 79% in Belarus
  • The share of the population of the titular nationality has increased in all CIS countries, except Russia and Moldova
  • In the CIS countries, the prevailing trend is to reduce the share of children and youth under 20 years of age
  • Children and young people under the age of 20 account for 20% of the population of Ukraine to 45% of the population of Tajikistan; people aged 65 and over account for 6% of the population of Tajikistan to a quarter of the population of Belarus, Moldova, Russia and Ukraine.

Q&A

• The family in the value system of Russians
• How many children do you need to be happy?
• Attitudes of Russian youth towards family and children
• Russians need 1.6 million rubles to have a child
• About half of Russians believe that now is a good time to have children
• Who considers themselves middle class

In the vastness of Russia

• The government sees no need to create a “Ministry of Demography”
• Golikova calls for including Investigative Committee in the assessment of senior officials
• Allowance for women under 25 giving birth may lead to undesirable effects
• State Duma proposes to shorten working Friday for women by two hours
• Russian Orthodox Church wants to send women on maternity leave in first trimester of pregnancy
• Adoption of children by foreigners may be completely prohibited
• State Council proposes to come up with a standard for the development of small towns
• Student work squads are once again becoming an important labor reserve
• Almost 30% more migrant law-breakers were expelled from the Russian Federation in the first quarter
• Control over migrants will be strengthened even more
• Seven universities have received warnings due to violations in Russian language exams for foreigners
• More than half of new HIV cases in Russia were detected in 24 regions
• Measles situation in Russia has stabilized
• One in three Russians is obese
• Russian economic losses due to chronic diseases are estimated at 4% of GDP
• Doctors will report citizens with mental disorders to police
• Russia sees decrease in number of murders

World News

• Japan's 2023 fertility is its lowest on record
• South Korea, China and Japan intend to jointly address the problems of population aging
• Global life expectancy has dropped by 1.8 years due to COVID-19
• Excess mortality from Covid in the West exceeds 3 million
• Fighting heart disease and infections will increase global life expectancy by 5 years
• Germany advocates equal distribution of Ukrainian refugees across EU
• Albania will not conclude agreements with EU countries on taking in illegal immigrants
• Greece has no plans to accept migrants from Latin America
• More than 60% of French people want to return borders inside Schengen to fight migration
• Biden introduces asylum ban on illegal immigrants at Mexico border
• US Homeland Security Secretary says country's immigration system is broken
• Rising anti-immigrant sentiment will make migration less manageable
• Tajikistan and Russia discuss changes to bilateral migration agreement
• Putin promises decent working conditions for citizens of Uzbekistan
• WHO countries agree to continue work on pandemic agreement
• In Sweden, the incidence of whooping cough among children has increased
• Measles cases on the rise in Europe
• Do married people beat cancer more often?
• Electric cars are dangerous for pedestrians

The newspapers write about…

• News.ru on measures to support fertility
• Esli byt’ tochnym on regional demographic development rating
• RBK and TASS on EU migration policy
• Nezavisimaya Gazeta on tightening immigration policy in the United States
• Novye Izvestia on immigration in Israel
• Rossiyskaya Gazeta and Novye Izvestia on expulsion of compatriots and illegal immigrants
• Kommersant on the Russian language school exam for migrant children
• Esli byt’ tochnym on studying dacha migration using satellite data
• Novye Izvestia on the growth of migrant wages
• Kommersant on job seekers asking to receive salaries in an envelope
• Kommersant on the shortage of blue-collar professions
• Kommersant on the growing demand for outsourcing
• Novye Izvestia on teacher income inequality
• Nezavisimaya Gazeta on the decrease in income when retiring
• Kommersant on trends in platform employment
• Expert on medicinal sovereignty
• Kommersant on the incidence of sexually transmitted infections
• RBK on the spread of infectious diseases in Russia
• Kommersant on measles incidence
• RBK on anti-vaxxers
• Kommersant on cutting spending on antiretroviral drugs
• RBK on monitoring the condition of the fetus in pregnant women
• Novye Izvestia on the increase in university tuition
• TASS on the possibilities of obtaining joint custody of children after a divorce in Japan

Read books and magazines

• Statistics of road traffic accidents in Europe and North America
• Internal migration and health in China
• A focus on adolescent physical activity, eating behaviors, weight status and body image in Europe, Central Asia and Canada
• Population and demographic processes 2022
• The ethnopolitical situation in the Russian Federation in 2023
• Through the pages of the magazines Naseleniye i Ekonomika (Population and Economics) and Ekonomicheskoye razvitie Rossii (Economic Development of Russia)
• Contents of the journal Population

Profession: researcher

• Young scientists on demographic problems. Meeting of the Demographic Section of the Central House of Scientists
• Excess mortality in the United States during the COVID-19 pandemic. Seminar of the International Laboratory for Population and Health Research of the National Research University Higher School of Economics
• Happy birthday to Natalia Vasilievna Zubarevich
• In memory of Leonid Leonidovich Rybakovsky