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Demographic barometer

• Youth of the CIS, demographic strokes of a statistical portrait of 2021
  • The number of young people aged 15-29 decreased by 2020 to 52 million people, or 18% of the total population of the CIS
  • Average age at first marriage rises for men in all CIS countries, for women in all except Tajikistan
  • Average age of a mother at the birth of her first child is on the rise in most CIS countries
  • At the age of 15, girls in the CIS will have another 61 to 65 years to live, boys - from 52 to 60 years

Q&A

• Family matters
• The family budget and division of household chores
• Romir and Rospotrebnadzor: 79% of Russians choose healthy food
• Seriously ill adults: who will help?
• Past year sees decrease in unspoken stereotypes about women in the labor market

In the vastness of Russia

• Over the past 10 years the number of women aged 20 to 29 has decreased by almost 40%
• Murashko announces start of sustainable trajectory of decreasing mortality in Russia
• Ministry of Health says additional measures are necessary to reduce male mortality
• Ministry of Labor will propose a package of measures to improve the demographic situation
• The number of children receiving federal social support has increased 10-fold since 2018
• Use of maternity capital to pay for education of children will be simplified
• Alfa-Bank predicted record decline in Russia's GDP starting in 2009
• In Russia the number of job-seeking men under 45 has decreased
• Ministry of Digital Development does not support ban on remote work for Russian IT specialists abroad
• Ministry of Defense does not support deferral of mobilization for scientists
• Putin denies need for additional mobilization
• State Duma to strengthen mechanism for refusing to give biometrics
• Ministry of Internal Affairs warns of risks of shortage of printers for printing passports
• State Duma simplifies registration of migrants
• The number of deaths of HIV-infected Russians increased by 2.4% in 2021
• 388 thousand suffer from drug addiction in Russia
• The number of drug-related deaths among teenagers has increased by 2.5 times since 2017
• Popova tells of severity of Russia’s recent flu virus
• In Russia more than half the population has been vaccinated against the flu
• Ministry of Finance proposes to combine compulsory and voluntary health insurance policies

World News

• For the first time, less than 50% of the population of England and Wales identify as Christians
• World Bank predicts increase in the number of poor in Ukraine to 8 million people
• UAE passport became world’s most powerful passport in 2022
• EU rejects admission of Bulgaria and Romania into Schengen zone
• About 100 thousand Russians remain in Kazakhstan
• Is the share of relocators in the total flow of Russians to Uzbekistan about 15%?
• Germany intends to simplify the immigration of workers from outside the EU
• Poland's labor market needs over 100,000 migrants annually
• Vienna mayor calls for rapid employment of asylum seekers
• UN seeks $1.72 billion to help Venezuelan migrants
• In European Union, one in eight people living with HIV is unaware of it
• 9 out of 10 Covid deaths in US are among the elderly
• Hopes for an end to the COVID-19 pandemic have not materialized
• About 90% of world's population has some level of immunity to COVID-19
• China abandons 'zero tolerance' COVID policy
• Ukraine Ministry of Health asks to stop planned hospitalizations
• Pilot hepatitis B vaccination project launched in Kyrgyzstan
• Indonesian parliament criminalizes premarital sex
• Condoms in France will be free for citizens aged 18 to 25
• Poland’s Sejm reprimands Kaczynski for insulting women
• Biden signs same-sex marriage into law

The newspapers write about…

• Kommersant on increase in life expectancy
• RBK on possible mortality from COVID in China
• Kommersant and RBK on the spread of HIV in Russia
• Kommersant on how doctors should talk to patients online
• The Economist on the decline in the population of Ukraine
• TASS on the forecast of the population of Africa
• Nezavisimaya Gazeta on the maternity capital
• RBK on measures to support fertility
• Kommersant on child mortality from drugs in Russia
• Kommersant on the attractiveness of countries for highly qualified specialists
• Kommersant on remote work
• Forbes on emigration from Russia and digital nomadism
• RBK on postponing financial support for foreign students in Russia
• Mysl Polska on the controversial status of Ukrainian citizens in Poland
• Novye Izvestia on the Far Eastern hectare
• RIA Novosti on a rating of Russian regions by the absence of bad habits
• Kommersant on corruption

Read books and magazines

• HIV/AIDS surveillance in Europe 2022
• Global adult tobacco survey in Kazakhstan. 2019
• World Population Prospects 2022
• Women and men of the Kyrgyz Republic 2017-2021
• The demographic well-being of Russia
• Through the pages of the magazines DEMIS and ECO
• Contents of the magazine Population & Societes

Profession: researcher

• Demographic changes and national transfer accounts in the CIS countries
• Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on life expectancy dynamics
• Labor migration in the Far East in the post-Soviet period