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Russian demographic barometer

Migration in Russia, results of the first half of 2020

• Net migration in Russia decreased 2.7 times compared to the first half of 2019

• Russia’s largest migration gain in January-June 2020 came from population exchange with Ukraine and Tajikistan

• The volume of internal Russian migration decreased in January-June 2020 by 21%

• In January-June 2020, Moscow for the first time in many years lost part of its population due to migration exchange with other territories

• By mid-2020, the number of foreigners with a valid work permit in Russia dropped to 68,000, and the number of foreigners with a valid work license to 1,345,000

Q&A

• Xenophobia and nationalism

• Should women work?

• Russians are satisfied with their health, but not with the quality of medical services

• Emigration moods - 2020: Dry bread at home is better than roast meat abroad

In the vastness of Russia

• Ministry of Economics predicts reduction in the population of Russia to 146.5 million people

• Fertility in Russia hits 12-year low

• Russia decides to reduce spending on education and demography

• Rosstat reports increase in the number of poor in the second quarter of 2020

• A proposal to calculate the minimum wage and the cost of living in a new way

• Ministry of Labor plans to increase payments for children from low-income families

• Almost 154 billion rubles will be allocated for payments for a first child in 2021

• List of regions to receive payments for a third child has been approved

• Pension Fund simplifies use of maternity capital for education of children

• Putin says maternity capital will be indexed annually

• Pensions in 2021 will be indexed above inflation

• Trade unions call for abolishing funded part of pension

• Mizulina's amendments to Family Code did not receive support

• Labor productivity growth in Russia will be provided with the help of 6.4 billion rubles

• State Duma changes quota procedure for temporary residence permits of migrants

• Russia to count on attracting foreign labor

• In Russia, almost 90% of hospital beds for coronavirus patients are occupied

• Russians arriving from abroad ordered to self-isolate

• Second vaccine against coronavirus patented in Russia

• 75% of Russians got no help from the state during lockdown

• Russians taking HIV tests 1.5 times more often

• Cigarette and alcohol prices will go up due to rising excise taxes

• In Russia, a proposal to restrict the sale of alcohol during New Year holidays

• Will restricting the sale of alcohol during the New Year holidays not force people to abstain?

• Mortality from cardiovascular diseases is not decreasing in Russia

• Murashko announces decrease in mortality from tuberculosis in Russia

• The number of overweight children in Russia ranges from 8 to 15%

• State Duma proposes to simplify the provision of emergency medical care

• Audit Chamber reveals that 40% of the indicators of the national project "Healthcare" have not been carried out

World news

• The population of Kazakhstan is 18.767 million people

• Israel's population grows 1.6% over past year

• In South Korea, fertility declines again

• Residents of Kirgizia have become much less likely to marry

• Japan’s proportion of elderly has exceeded 28%

• In Belarus, tax incentives being used to support large families

• Internal migration has increased in South Korea

• Switzerland votes against restricting migration from the EU

• European Union presents new refugee plan

• Eastern European leaders unhappy with new EU migration plan

• Liberals in Italy intend to ease migration legislation

• European Commissioner sees immigration as beneficial for aging European populations

• EU bans prosecution of carriers of migrants

• Remittances to Ukraine down by almost $500 million

• WHO does not rule out 2 million deaths from COVID-19 before widespread vaccination

• UN Secretary General believes that humanity has failed pandemic test

• Coronavirus exposes need for UN reform

• Rich countries have reserved half of all promising coronavirus vaccine supplies

• Few severe cases of COVID-19 in Georgia

• Swedish authorities thinking about introducing additional restrictions in connection with COVID-19 epidemic

• In Europe, growing dissatisfaction with measures to combat Covid-19

• Russia to send 50,000 doses of measles vaccine to Kirgizia and Belarus

• Does loneliness contribute to type 2 diabetes?

The newspapers write about…

• Izvestia, CNN, The Times, Gazeta.Ru, Novaya Gazeta and The Economist on a second wave of coronavirus

• Russkaya sluzhba BBC and Kommersant on a coronavirus vaccine

• Gazeta.Ru on anti-maskers

• Russkaya sluzhba BBC on herd immunity

• Reflex and Info.cz on the migration crisis

• Atlantico on mixing cultures

• Vedomosti on population decline

• Izvestiya on the maternity capital

• REGNUM on measures to improve the demographic situation

• IQ on life expectancy

• Nihon Keizai on alcohol consumption

• Kommersant on personal income

• RBK on unemployment

• Russkaya sluzhba BBC on those wishing to start a new life

• Gazeta Wyborcza on equality

Read books and magazines

• Challenges and trends in the demographic development of Russia and its regions

• Vital statistics of Ukraine for 2019

• Eurostat Regional Yearbook. 2020 Edition

• Every Newborn Progress Report 2019

• The incidence of sexually transmitted infections, infectious skin diseases and skin diseases in 2018-2019

• Through the pages of the magazines Zdravookhraneniye Rossiyskoy Federatsii (Public Health of the Russian Federation) and Uroven zhizni naseleniya regionov Rossii (Living Standards of the Population of Russian Regions)

• Contents of the Journal of Population Economics

Profession: researcher

• Congratulations to Mark Solomonovich Tolts on his 70th birthday!

• Mark Tolts. Fifty years in demography

• Mark Tolts. On the influence of marriage status on fertility

• Publications of M.S. Tolts since 2015