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Russian demographic barometer

Russia: preliminary demographic results of 2018 (part I)

• The population of Russia has begun to decline again, decreasing in 2018 by 87 thousand people

• Due to accelerated natural decline, the population of Russia in 2018 decreased by 218 thousand people, which was only partially compensated by reduced net migration.

• In 2018, the number of births in Russia continued to decline, decreasing to 1,599,000

• The number of registered marriages decreased in 2018 by 12%, of divorces - by 4%

Take care of women!

• HIV infection is one of the top ten public health threats in 2019

• The situation around reproductive rights in the United States has once again escalated

• Atlas of contraception availability - 2019

In the vastness of Russia

• Rosstat reports highest GDP growth in six years

• The cost of national projects for six years will exceed 25.7 trillion rubles

• The rate of fertility decline cut in half in 2018

• Can Moscow become one of the world leaders in life expectancy?

• No further increase in retirement age expected before 2036

• 330 thousand people receive a Russian pension abroad

• Clients of non-state pensions funds will be able to receive pensions according to the old rules

• Ministry of Economic Development names causes of decline in incomes of Russians

• The average monthly salary of Muscovites in 2018 exceeded 80 thousand rubles

• Preferential mortgage for families with children will have no fixed term

• Regions will receive 108 billion rubles for the creation of nursery school groups

• By the end of 2021 third shift in Russian schools will be abolished

• Will parents be obliged to support full-time students and scholarships be abolished?

• State Duma preparing bill on maternity leave for men

• Proposal in State Duma to make payments to guardians equal to subsistence minimum of children

• Over the past year, more than 4.4 million people changed their place of residence in the country.

• "Far Eastern hectare" has not attracted migrants from Central Russia

• New leadership in Department of Migration of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia

• Debt threshold remains unchanged for those not allowed to leave country

• Over 40% of young Russians have expressed a desire to emigrate

• Russia and Tajikistan will sign additional agreements on migration

• Russia cuts alcohol consumption nearly by half

• Do 70% of able-bodied men die because of alcohol?

• The main cause of death among Russians under 18 are accidents.

• Cancer incidence rising in Russia

• Tuberculosis incidence in Russia for the year decreased by 7.7%

• More than 2,500 schools and 816 kindergartens were closed due to flu and acute viral respiratory infections

• In Russia, incidence of measles jumps 3.5 times

• WHO confirms Russia's victory over rubella

• Women in Russia have become less likely to die during childbirth

• State Duma to evaluate prospects for removing abortion from mandatory health insurance coverage

• Those most likely to be obese are persons over age 55

• About 200 thousand patients with rare diseases will receive free medicines

• Russians will be stimulated to go for state medical examination

• Online help service for cancer patients created in Russia

• Expanded options for state-subsidized treatment in private clinics

• Three world-class genetic centers will appear in Russia

• Half of Russians consider euthanasia permissible for seriously ill patients

World news

• Life expectancy in the world has increased by 22 years since 1950

• Turkey's population reaches 82 million

• Tajikistan's population has increased by 3.7 million people over 28 years

• The population of Riga continues to decrease

• The population of South Korea will be significantly smaller by 2028

• Chinese experts predict a sharp increase in the number of older people by 2050

• In the next 10 years the working population of Ukraine will shrink by 3 million people

• Chinese parliament proposes to abolish birth control policy

• The number of official marriages in Latvia has increased

• Plan to put off Kazakhstan census until 2020

• Nearly 14% of the US population was born in another country.

• US Citizenship and Immigration Services to close office in Moscow

• Most Americans continue to believe that immigrants are useful to the country.

• Brexit causes many migrants to renounce Lithuanian citizenship

• Germany needs an influx of skilled migrants

• Tajikistan and Qatar sign agreement on migrant workers

• Tajik migrants trying to find an alternative to Russia

• Over 710 thousand citizens of Kirgizia are forced to work abroad

• Ukrainian employers intend to reduce labor migration of Ukrainians abroad

• Will return of migrant workers not help the Ukrainian economy?

• National Bank of Ukraine expects $12.2 billion in transfers from migrants in 2019

• Africa has 7.5 million refugees

• Germany accelerates asylum procedure

• Most Americans are against the border wall

• In Tajikistan over year HIV detected in 1.4 thousand people

• Of the three Baltic countries, Estonians drink the least

• Flu epidemic takes lives all over the world

• Mass obesity in the United States causes rise in cancer incidence

• Physical activity in leisure hours is better than that for your job

• Hundreds of little girls married by force in Australia

• France to remove lines "father" and "mother" from school documents

• The most dangerous European countries to drive in are Denmark, Germany and Belgium

The newspapers write about…

• Ekonomika Sevodnya on demographic policy

• RBK and Rossiyskaya Gazeta on national projects

• Bloomberg and Forbes on the development of cities and villages

• RBK on assessing poverty

• Gazeta.Ru and Rosbalt on shrinking incomes

• Bloomberg and Le Figaro on economic growth

• Le Monde on inequality

• Helsingin Sanomat on ‘parasites’ in Belarus

• Delfi.lt on the retirement age

• Argumenty i Fakty on internal migration

• Russkaya sluzhba BBC on the desire to leave the country

• REGNUM on judicial proceedings against migrant janitors

• Moskovsky Komsomolets on the work style of the migration service

• Le Figaro and FAN on the migration crisis

• IQ on the Russian diaspora

• RIA Novosti, New Scientist and Moskovsky Komsomolets on the fight against cancer

• Politico, Suomen Kuvalehti and Kommersant on alcohol consumption

• Life on getting the measles

• MedicForum on dangerous methods of treatment

• Hufvudstadsbladet on the worth of a person

• IQ on voluntary medical insurance

• News.ru on palliative care

• Daily Mail and Wired Magazine on the shrinking of the world's population

• Novye Izvestiya and Izvestiya on the family

• Yahoo News Japan on legalizing same-sex marriage

• Vox on suing your parents for giving you birth

• Novye Izvestiya on feminism

• Russkaya sluzhba BBC on female circumcision

• Izvestiya on collecting biometrics

• Novye Izvestiya on the unavailability of toilets

• Russkaya sluzhba BBC on the demographic situation of Iran

• Delfi.Iv on the demographic situation of Latvia

• Delfi.ee on Russian surnames

Read books and magazines

• The situation of children and families with children in the city of Moscow in 2017

• Russian youth of the Kyrgyz Republic in the twenty-first century. Adaptation strategies

• Population of Ukraine 2017

• Labour force survey in the EU, candidate and EFTA countries. Main characteristics of national surveys, 2017

• Collection of statistical materials on diseases of the circulatory system

• Through the pages of the magazines Naseleniye i Ekonomika (Population and Economics) and Zhurnal Issledovaniy Sotsialnoy Politiki (Journal of Social Policy Studies)

• Contents of the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies

Profession: researcher

• Demographic indicators in the president’s May (2018) decree. Scientific seminar “Modern Demography” of the International Laboratory for Population and Health Research, HSE

• 130 years since the birth of Peter Afanasyevich Kuvshinnikov

•    P. Kuvshinnikov. Natural movement of the population of the RSFSR in 1920-1922

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