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Contents of Demoscope Weekly issue

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Demographic Barometer

  • Demographic results of the first half of 2024 in Russia (part II)
    • In the first half of 2024, the number of deaths increased compared to the same period in 2023, exceeding 921,000 people, or 12.7 per 1,000 people
    • Life expectancy at birth increased in 2023 to 73.4 years, exceeding the pre-pandemic level of 2019
    • In 2023, mortality from external causes, diseases of the digestive system, neoplasms, and some infectious and parasitic diseases increased
    • According to data for the first half of 2024, infant mortality was 4.0‰ in annual terms
    • Maternal mortality in 2023 increased again, amounting to 13.3 per 100 thousand live births

Q&A

  • Russians' views on parenting
  • Online dating, or Romance in the digital age
  • Less than 1% of Russians surveyed consider a housewife to be the ideal role for a girl
  • Women in politics: VTsIOM monitoring
  • Career growth leads women to divorce 1.5 times more often than men
  • Mandatory consultation with a psychologist before divorce: 42% of divorced people approve, 45% are against

In the vastness of Russia

  • In Russia, the population decline trend continues
  • Ministry of Labor expects the number of women of reproductive age to decrease by 2046
  • Data on 2.4 million families has been added to the register of large families
  • Does the Kremlin still have no position on the issue of banning the childfree movement in the Russian Federation?
  • 1.9 million unemployed in Russia
  • List of professions prohibited for women has been cut by almost a third
  • As of September 1, there were 6.2 million foreigners registered with the migration service in Russia
  • In 2024, 43,000 work patents of migrants were cancelled in Russia
  • Moscow Region will limit the work of migrants in 2025
  • Authorities intend to reduce the number of fictitious marriages between migrants and Russian citizens
  • Ministry of Education and Science supports introduction of oral part in Russian language exam for migrants
  • Ministry of Education decides to test children of migrants on knowledge of the Russian language
  • Russian Federation has almost 370,000 educational migrants
  • More than 70% of foreigners study at Russian universities on a fee-paying basis
  • Russia no longer one of world’s heaviest-drinking countries
  • About 40 million Russians are obese
  • Muscovites are offered free fertility testing for a year
  • More than half of elderly Russians report anxiety and depression

World News

  • Australia's population reaches 27.1 million for first time
  • The number of people over 100 in Japan reaches 95,000
  • China to raise retirement age
  • Germany to start checking social networks of Schengen visa applicants
  • Hungary intends to join Netherlands' request to withdraw from EU migration pact
  • More than 80% of Germans surveyed support immigration restrictions
  • Scholz supports introduction of controls at all German borders
  • 77% of French respondents support restoration of border controls
  • British government to allocate $100 million to strengthen border security
  • New French Interior Minister promises to combat illegal migration
  • Danish Prime Minister calls migrant problem second most important after Ukraine
  • Finland to tighten residence permit requirements for family reunification
  • Netherlands to declare asylum crisis
  • Germany and Uzbekistan sign migration agreement
  • Uzbekistan begins recruiting migrants for construction and manufacturing in Russia
  • Ethiopian refugees return home due to war in Sudan
  • Trump calls for death penalty for drug dealers in US
  • New monkeypox strain reaches Sweden, Thailand and other countries outside Africa
  • About 40% of Americans are obese
  • Almost 50,000 cases of cholera registered worldwide in August
  • Spain records its largest outbreak of dengue fever
  • WHO recognizes Jordan as first leprosy-free country in world
  • UK National Health Service in critical condition

The newspapers write about…

  • News.ru, E1.ru, Novye Izvestia, RBK and Fontanka.ru on banning "childfree ideology"
  • RBK and Kommersant on the reproductive plans of Russians
  • Esli byt’ tochnym on low fertility
  • Kommersant on hormonal analysis for fertility
  • RBK on the possibility of increasing the amount of child care benefits up to one and a half years
  • Novye Izvestia on curtailing family mortgages
  • RBK on the 2030 population census
  • Kommersant on migration in Russia through the eyes of the Ministry of Internal Affairs
  • RBK on restrictions for illegal migrants
  • Rossiyskaya Gazeta on assistance to foreign citizens in moving to Russia
  • Kommersant and Izvestia on regulating the number of migrant children in school classes
  • Esli byt’ tochnym on crime in Russia
  • RBK on the difficulties of Russian emigrants
  • Kommersant on the shortage of personnel
  • Kommersant on new strains of coronavirus
  • Kommersant and Novye Izvestia on the resistance of microbes to antibiotics
  • Rossiyskaya Gazeta on refusing prophylactic vaccinations
  • Novye Izvestia on the aging of the human body
  • Novye Izvestia on the problem of early puberty in girls
  • Kommersant on the transfer of anonymized personal data for training models based on artificial intelligence
  • Novye Izvestia on identifying a predisposition to diabetes in children
  • Novye Izvestia on the problem of loneliness
  • TASS on Semashko's healthcare system
  • Kommersant on the advantages and disadvantages of remote work
  • Kommersant on shrinking cities in the Russian Arctic

Read books and magazines

  • The demography of transforming families
  • Materials for the state report "On the state of sanitary and epidemiological well-being of the population in the Russian Federation in 2022" for the Republic of Bashkortostan
  • Health behaviour in school-aged children international report from the 2021/2022 survey
  • Safeguarding the population of Russia: health, employment, standard of living and quality of life
  • Population of the Republic of Tajikistan as of January 1, 2024
  • Through the pages of the journals Zdravookhraneniye Rossiyskoy Federatsii (Healthcare of the Russian Federation) and Sibirskiy onkologicheskiy zhurnal (Siberian Oncology Journal)
  • Contents of the journal Population & Societe

Profession: researcher

  • 95th anniversary of the birth of Alexander Samoilovich Akhiezer
  • Congratulations to Ekaterina Sharepina on the birth of her son

Student page

  • Expedition of the HSE Department of Social Sciences "Population migration in settlements between two or more large centers: what determines its scale and direction?" Collective diary of participants

 
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