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Demographic Barometer

• Migration in Russia in the first half of 2024
  • Net migration in the population of Russia for January-June 2024 decreased to 65 thousand people, including up to 30 thousand people in population exchange with other countries
  • Russia received its largest migration increase for January-June 2024, as in 2021-2023, in population exchange with Tajikistan
  • According to the Border Service of the FSB of Russia, the number of foreign citizens who arrived in Russia for work purposes exceeded 4.5 million people in 2023
  • The volume of migration within Russia decreased in January-June 2024 by 5% in terms of the number of arrivals and by 4% in terms of the number of departures
  • In January-June 2024, migration exchange with CIS countries increased the population of 48 of the 85 regions-subjects of the federation, and migration exchange with other regions of Russia - 23
  • The number of people granted temporary asylum in Russia decreased to 13.9 thousand people by mid-2024

Q&A

• Family studies in school: pros and cons
• Half of Russians support ban on childfree propaganda, while 74% oppose introduction of tax on childlessness
• Fear of contracting coronavirus has decreased to the level of fear of the flu
• Let’s move for work?
• Not just Moscow and St. Petersburg. Top 5 best cities for a career include Yekaterinburg, Tyumen and Kazan

In the vastness of Russia

• Russia plans to reduce mortality in 2025
• Age group above 80 years shows largest population growth
• More than 1,000 Muscovites are over 100 years old
• The share of IVF births in 2023 was 2.4% of all births
• Bill to ban childfree propaganda is introduced to State Duma
• "Student family" bill introduced to Duma
• Universities may get student family support officer
• Russian employers starting to value candidates over 50 more
• Putin expands visa-free regime for Georgian citizens
• Five bills against illegal migration introduced to Duma
• State Duma adopts in second reading a bill against fictitious marriages with foreigners
• Migrants with a fictitious certificate in the Russian language will not receive a Russian passport
• Ministry of Internal Affairs plans to introduce illegal migrant register starting in March
• Ministry of Internal Affairs proposes to limit period of temporary registration for all migrants to a year
• In Primorye, migrants will be prohibited from working with work patents in 41 fields
• Over last 20 years, the proportion of non-drinking Russians has almost doubled
• Proposal to limit the sale of tobacco to those born after 2009
• Survival rate of children with cancer in Russia is more than 80%

World News

• Britain sees biggest population growth in last 50 years
• The population of Ukraine may decrease by almost 6 million by 2051
• Europe has partially met its personnel shortage with Ukrainian refugees
• In Germany, almost one in two recipients of benefits does not have a German passport
• In Finland, a proposal to revoke residence permits for security reasons
• Tajikistan concerned about the situation with migrants in the Russian Federation
• CDU party promoting construction of fences on EU borders
• Harris promises to take new measures against illegal migration
• France needs new immigration control policy
• France and Germany call on EC to conclude agreement on illegal migration with UK
• Hungary intends to stop illegal immigration to the EU
• Brussels to create camps for deported migrants outside the EU
• Migrant situation on Polish-Belarusian border is difficult
• The number of male smokers will decrease by 26% by mid-century
• Antimicrobial resistance causes more than one million deaths per year
• COVID-19 is not seasonal
• Humans have approached the biological limits of life expectancy
• One teen in ten suffers from addiction to social networks and computer games

The newspapers write about…

• Kommersant, Rossiyskaya Gazeta, News.ru on the approval of bills on migration and citizenship
• Kommersant on the fight against fictitious marriages among foreigners
• Kommersant on foreign citizenship as an aggravating circumstance
• RBK and Expert on criticism of the tightening of migration policy
• Rossiyskaya Gazeta on the decrease in the number of labor migrants in Russia
• Kommersant, RBK and Novye Izvestia on the personnel shortage in the labor market
• Kommersant on increasing fertility by 2035
• News.ru on the "special demographic operation"
• Izvestia on banning the adoption of Russian children
• Novye Izvestia, Gazeta.Ru and News.ru on childlessness tax
• Novye Izvestiya on regional law prohibiting encouragement to abort
• Novye Izvestia on support for large families
• RBK on new practical approaches to demographic policy in China
• Kommersant on the risk of heart defects in children conceived using IVF
• Rossiyskaya Gazeta on reproductive health screening
• RBK on the impact of the tobacco ban on cancer mortality
• Kommersant on the problem of funding hepatitis C screening
• Novye Izvestia on the deadly Marburg virus
• Kommersant on providing treatment for rare diseases
• Kommersant on program to fight the spread of antibiotic resistance
• Novye Izvestia on the benefits of sports
• TASS on life satisfaction in rural areas
• Rossiyskaya Gazeta on the ages of increasing health risks
• Kommersant on myopia in young people and children
• Nezavisimaya Gazeta on the aging of mortgage borrowers
• Esli byt’ tochnym on the life of orphans

Read books and magazines

• World development report 2023. Migrants, refugees, and societies
• Moscow region dachas: population, land, economy (19th-21st centuries)
• On the state of sanitary and epidemiological well-being of the population in the Belgorod region in 2023
• Monitoring of indicators of sustainable development goals (SDGs) in the CIS region 2018-2022
• Population, disabilities, incidence of COVID-19 and vaccination in the Republic of Kazakhstan
• Through the pages of the journals Demograficheskoye Obozreniye (Demographic Review) and Rossiyskiy Meditsinskiy Zhurnal (Russian Medical Journal)
• Contents of the journal Population and Development Review

Profession: researcher

• Sources of primary data for official statistics. Changing priorities. Meeting of the Statistical Section of the Central House of Scientists
• Happy anniversary to Oksana Vyacheslavovna Sinyavskaya
  • "We are more likely experiencing a demographic autumn, because the population of Russia is not yet that old" - interview with Oksana Sinyavskaya (HSE)