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Demographic barometer:

  • Older generations of Russians, 2023
    • The number of Russians over working age decreased by the beginning of 2022 to 35 million people, or 24% of the total population
    • Potential support ratio for the population aged 65 and over has decreased in Russia to 4.0
    • At Russia’s 2019 mortality rate, about 85% of girls born and 63% of boys will survive to the age of 65, at the 2020 rate - 82% and 60%, respectively
    • Two out of three Russians over working age are women
    • At the beginning of 2023, the number of pensioners registered with the Pension Fund of Russia decreased to 41.8 million people

Q&A

  • Saint Valentine leaves, love remains!
  • To find your second half, you have to go not to clubs, but to work
  • Coronavirus, influenza and vaccination
  • How and why do Muscovites spend money on paid healthcare?
  • Russians' interest in living abroad is declining

In the vastness of Russia

  • Natural population decline in 2022 decreased by 45%
  • Life expectancy in 2022 increased to 72.6 years
  • In St. Petersburg, fertility has decreased by 15% over past six years
  • Micro-census planned for 2026
  • Government will have right to suspend disclosure of statistics
  • Ministry of Construction developing demographic KPI for improvement projects
  • Minimum wage will be further increased by 10% as of 2024
  • Moscow, St. Petersburg and the Moscow region are leaders in quality of life
  • Russian pensions will start being paid in new regions
  • MP proposes to deny maternity capital to those going abroad to give birth
  • Volodin concerned about popularity of maternity tourism among Russian women
  • 16% of IT-specialists of Russian companies work from abroad
  • Volume of freelancer remittances from Russia abroad grew almost seven times in 2022
  • Number of registered unemployed fell by almost 30% over year
  • Will rental housing for defense industry workers stimulate labor migration?
  • Biometric passports will simplify receipt of services
  • Russia may introduce “controlled stay” regime for migrants
  • Project to attract construction workers from Uzbekistan is suspended
  • Conscripts and migrants to be vaccinated against measles
  • Ministry of Health to create federal register of persons with infectious diseases

World News

  • India census date not yet known
  • EU countries received 1 million requests for refugee status in 2022
  • Kazakhstan approves list of professions eligible for fast-track residence permit
  • Thailand to fine migrants taking local jobs
  • Earthquakes in Turkey and Syria are strongest in region in last 100 years
  • Over 10,000 Syrians return home from Turkey
  • Global covid deaths down 62% in four weeks
  • Belarus excludes coronavirus, syphilis and gonorrhea from the list of diseases dangerous to the population
  • Pandemic has seriously affected mental health of American teenagers
  • WHO calls risk of spread of cholera in the world very high
  • Taliban denies information about ban on contraceptives for women
  • Fingerprint breast cancer screening method developed in UK
  • WHO plans to test vaccines against Marburg virus
  • Monkeypox causes increased mortality in people with advanced HIV
  • Average penis length has grown by 25% in 30 years

The newspapers write about…

  • Nezavisimaya Gazeta on natural population decline in Russia
  • RBK on the number of pensioners in Russia
  • Izvestia on implementation of President's instructions to Federal Assembly
  • Kommersant on criticism of "migration" bills
  • Kommersant on increase in incidence of coronavirus
  • Izvestia on termination of investigation into origin of COVID-19
  • TASS on telemedicine
  • Project Syndicate on China's population decline
  • Nezavisimaya Gazeta on protests against China’s imperfect health insurance system
  • RBK on first assignments for State Duma group to implement policies aimed at preserving and strengthening traditional spiritual and moral values

Read books and magazines

  • Health Systems in Transition. Italy
  • Marriages and divorces in modern society: a sociological analysis
  • Adaptation and integration of migrants in Russia: challenges, realities, indicators
  • Children and youth in Georgia 2022
  • Population and social indicators of CIS countries and individual countries of the world. 2018-2021
  • Through the pages of the journals Demograficheskoye Obozreniye (Demographic Review) and Povolzhsky onkologicheskiy vestnik (Povolzhsky Oncological Bulletin)
  • Contents of the journal Studies in family planning

Profession: researcher

  • "Excess summer mortality in children and adolescents: the effect of long school holidays?".
  • Seminar of the A.G. Vishnevsky Institute of Demography of the National Research University Higher School of Economics "Demographic Challenges of the 21st Century"
  • On trends and prospects of fertility in Russia - on the occasion of the 90th anniversary of the birth of V.A. Borisov. Meeting of the Demographic Section of the Central House of Scientists of the Russian Academy of Sciences
  • 90 years since the birth of Vladimir Aleksandrovich Borisov
  • Happy 70th birthday to Sergei Feliksovich Ivanov!

 
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