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Russian Demographic barometer

Migration in Russia, preliminary results of 2017

• According to preliminary data for 2017, Russia’s net migration has decreased by almost 20% with a 9% growth in migration turnover

• Russia’s greatest migration increase again came from population exchange with Ukraine, although it decreased by 2.5 times, to 48,000 people

• The volume of internal migration in Russia has practically not changed, increasing in 2017 by 1.3%

• In 2017 the population of 68 regions increased due to migration exchange with CIS countries, and 15 to exchange with other regions of Russia

• The number of internally displaced persons, refugees and temporary asylum residents continues to decline

• By the end of 2017 the number of foreigners with a valid work permit in Russia had fallen to 115,000, while those with a work license had increased to 1,649,000

Q&A

• Equality in the family: from declarations to reality

• Women’s work

• Loneliness, and how to deal with it

In the vastness of Russia

• The number of permanent residents of Moscow is 12.5 million people

• Life expectancy in Russia should surpass 80 years in 10 years

• Life expectancy in St. Petersburg has almost reached 75 years

• Will Russian society “grow young”?

• Vnesheconombank sets time-frame for raising retirement age in Russia

• Vladimir Putin signs law on raising minimum wage to subsistence level

• State to provide compensation for unpaid alimony

• Shortage of places in preschool to be eliminated by 2021

• Internal migration in Russia will lead to Siberia and the Far East dying out

• Bill submitted to State Duma on Russian citizenship for Crimean residents absent from the peninsula at the time of its annexation

• 58% of Russian millionaires have passports of other countries

• Sberbank ready to issue biometric passports and driving licenses

• Suspicious foreigners may be barred entry to Russia

• Plan to give Russians alcohol and drug tests in the workplace

• In Russia, growth in the number of diabetes patients

• Mortality from cancer has declined in Russia for the first time in three years

• Are mortality statistics manipulated ?

• The number of traffic accidents in Moscow since 2010 has decreased by 59%

• In Moscow, over 3,000 IVFs conducted for free

• Ministry of Health warns of threat of disruption of supplies of painkillers in the regions because of Rosgvardia

• Call in HRC to review mechanism for providing medicines to benefit recipients

• Cabinet allocates 3.5 billion rubles for development of rural healthcare

• Criteria for obtaining medical care have been established

• Sanitary aviation to be launched in all regions of Russia

• 10 billion rubles will be sent to equip children’s polyclinics

• Polyclinics will be rated on point system

• Over 40% of Russians agree that hospitals unofficially take money from patients

World news

• By the end of the century the population of Ukraine will be halved

• Lithuania admits loss of one million inhabitants

• Lithuania’s working-age population may shrink by a third by 2030

• The struggle against overpopulation continues in Egypt

• China may allow a third child

• Korea cuts work week to increase fertility

• The number of career women reaches record levels

• Poland wants 850 billion dollars in reparations from Germany

• Lithuania uncovers “gray migration”

• In EU countries live over 870,000 former Kazakhstanis

• Residents of Ukraine will continue to migrate to Poland

• 77,000 citizens of Kirgizia on blacklist of Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs

• Official labor migrants from Uzbekistan will receive transport discounts

• Uzbekistan will send migrants to Turkey in an organized manner

• In Uzbekistan, labor migrants to be trained in professions and languages

• Ethiopian Jews demand repatriation of remaining relatives to Israel

• UN calls on Angola to stop deporting refugees to Congo

• Diabetes and cancer patients banned from moving to Kuwait

• Millions of people are predicted to die from an unknown infection

• Physicians have increased the maximum permissible blood sugar level for diabetics

• India’s Supreme Court permits passive euthanasia

• The world’s most dangerous cities

• Scientists have discovered more than 500 different genes determining human intelligence

The newspapers write about…

• “Novoye Vremya” on the President’s message

• “Pravoslavie i Mir” on Russia’s demographic problems

• “RBK” on the growth of salaries

• “Kommersant-Ogonyok”, “Komsomolskaya Pravda”, “Vechernyaya Moskva”, “Rossiyskaya Gazeta” on internal Russian migration

• “RIA Novosti”, “REGNUM” on developing the Far East

• “Russkaya sluzhba BBC” on deported Chechens

• “Kommersant-Ogonyok”, “Novaya Gazeta”, “Asahi Shimbun”, “Rossiyskaya Gazeta” on aging

• ‘iq.hse.ru”, “Forbes” on the labor market

• “Nezavisimaya Gazeta” on the nationalities question

• “Mezhdunarodny diskussionyi klub Valdai” on modernization the economy

• “Novye Izvestiya” on a guaranteed income

• “Kommersant” on social assistance

• “Ukraina.Ru” on surrogate motherhood

• “The Village” on the Mosmetro initiative

• “iq.hse.ru” on the modern family

• “Udm-Info” on negative healthcare news in the media

• “TASS” on fighting cancer

• “RBK” on the threat of disruption of the drug supply

• “Rossiyskaya Gazeta”, “Vechernyaya Moskva”, “RBK”, “NTV” on health and a healthy lifestyle

• “Rossiyskaya Gazeta”, “Novye Izvestiya” on longevity

• “Forbes”, “Pravoslavie i Mir” on medicine

• “The Atlantic”, “Vedomosti”, “Izvestiya” on mortality

• “Vesti.ua” on difficulties in obtaining a Ukrainian passport

• “Kommersant”, “Russkaya sluzhba BBC”, “Vedomosti”, “Novye Izvestiya”, “The Village” on sexual harassment in the State Duma

• “Russkiy Den” on sex in the future

• “The Marker” on happiness and well-being

• “Russkay sluzhba BBC” on racism

Read books and magazines

• Migration throughout Times: From the Bronze Age to the Century of the Digital

• Monitoring noncommunicable disease commitments in Europe

• Regions of Russia. Socioeconomic indicators.

• Women and men of Kazakhstan 2012-2016

• Monitoring quality of life indicators in the countries of the Commonwealth of Independent States 2013-2016

• Through the pages of the journals “Mediko-sotsialnaya ekspertiza i reabilitatsiya” ("Medico-social examination and rehabilitation") and “Rossiyskiy onkologicheskiy zhurnal” ("Russian oncological journal")

• Contents of the journal “Population and development review”

Demographic digest

• Demographic cycles, migration and housing investment

• Does Fertility or Mortality Drive Contemporary Population Aging? The Revisionist View Revisited

• BONUS: An alternative to treatment

Profession: researcher

• Why is the state program to facilitate the resettlement of compatriots turning into resistance to settlers? Expert meeting at the Institute of Demography of the Higher School of Economics

• How to beat abortion? Discussion seminar at the Institute of Demography of the Higher School of Economics

• Congratulations on the anniversary of Alexander Petrovich Babenyshev (Sergei Maksudov)

• An interview with A.P. Babenyshev

• Alexei Levinson and Pavel Nerler about Sergei Maksudov

• Sergei Maksudov. Losses Suffered by the Population of the USSR 1918-1958

• List of published works by Sergei Maksudov