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Russian Demographic barometer

Crime in Russia, 2017

• In 2017, the number of registered crimes and victims of them continued to decline in Russia

• In 2017, the number of crimes related to illicit arms trafficking, terrorist intent, fraud and extortion continued to grow

• The number of murders and attempted murders continues to decline, dropping in 2017 to 6.6 per 100,000 people

• The number of deaths in road accidents fell by 6% in 2017, the number of injured by 3%

• In 2017, 967,000 people who committed crimes were identified

• In 2017, 744,000 offenders received various sentences

• As of the start of 2018, 602,000 people were held in carceral facilities

Q&A

• The most disturbing problems

• Russians have become more modest – for happiness they need less money than in 2017

• The quality of medical services: what the public wants

• Women’s health: outer beauty, inner beauty

• Russians name optimal retirement age

In the vastness of Russia

• Experts promise an increase in the life expectancy of Russians

• The number of births in Russia continues to fall

• Russia’s highest fertility growth is recorded in Chechnya

• In Russia live more than 15,000 people over 100 years old

• Medvedev announces plan to raise retirement age

• Putin signs new “May decree”

• Minimum wage now equal to subsistence level

• Central Bank expects sharp rise in public sector wages

• Putin promises to cut poverty in half by 2024

• About 28,000 families have received payments for first child

• New child benefits will not be taxed

• Golodets promises to solve problems with places in kindergartens within “two or three years”

• “Russians see no future”

• Russians to receive a single identification number

• Russia to increase state duties on documents

• Russians will be able to apply for marriage license one year before wedding

• In Russia, a growing number of Ukrainians, Kazakhs and Tajiks

• Residence permits in Russia may become unlimited in time

• Russia may ease migration rules for Tajik citizens

• Are most emigrants from Russia qualified specialists?

• More than 10,000 foreigners expelled from Russia since the beginning of 2018

• Rospotrebnadzor names the 10 regions of Russia with the largest number of HIV-infected people

• Ministry of Health plans to tighten legislation on HIV infection

• Mortality from alcohol poisoning in 2017 decreased by a quarter

• In Russia, the number of alcoholics has decreased by 22 percent over past five years

• WHO registers record decrease in alcohol consumption in Russia

• Rospotrebnadzor extends ban on sale of surrogate alcohol

• Regions with the lowest tuberculosis mortality have been named

• Infant mortality in Moscow has decreased by almost a third in 7 years

• Putin calls for reducing mortality from traffic accidents to zero

• 1.3 million people donated blood in 2017

• Ministry of Health is considering expanding the list of indications for IVF treatment

• The number of obese people in Russia has increased by 45% over 5 years

• Moscow to begin drug testing for 8^th graders

• Putin gives instruction to liquidate doctor shortage in polyclinics

• Ministry of Health opposes the sale of drugs in supermarkets

• After the decriminalization of beating in Moscow, more complaints of domestic violence

World news

• The population of Belarus continues to decline

• Kazakhstan’s urban population has reached 10.43 million people

• The number of births in Lithuania has reached 60-year low

• Life expectancy in Belarus is growing

• Lithuania approves demographic strategy

• World’s oldest women dies aged 118

• More and more elderly people worldwide don’t want to retire

• Ukrainians’ pensions in 35 years will make up 20% of their salary

• The main threats to the growth of the global economy have been named

• The Dutch work less than everyone else, but have high pensions

• Will more than 1 million Americans move due to tax reform?

• Uzbek passports to be replaced by ID cards

• Georgia intends to make procedure for obtaining citizenship harder

• Residence permit in Ukraine will be issued in the form of an ID card

• Government of Lithuania does not approve law on return of emigrants

• EU countries have returned violators of visa-free regime to Georgia

• The flow of migrants from Tajikistan to Russia is decreasing

• 4 million inhabitants of Ukraine are migrant workers

• The only way to stop emigration from Ukraine is a competitive salary

• Germany to allocate €9 million to Ukraine to house internally displaced persons

• Ukraine again a leading country in terms of remittance volumes

• Labor migrants will send $9 billion home to Ukraine over one year

• France intends to tighten laws on granting refugee status

• Over a thousand migrants have gone missing in 2018

• Great Britain has accepted more than 10,000 Syrian refugees

• The number of illegal migrants in Libya has decreased significantly

• Trump proposes to pass law on deporting migrant criminals

• Kirgiz embassy asks Kirgiz citizens in Russia to behave decently

• In Belarus, mortality of working age people is decreasing

• Kazakhstan sees decrease in mortality from tuberculosis

• Scotland world’s first country to introduce minimum prices for alcohol

• Irish Prime Minister supports lifting abortion ban

• Lack of sleep in children leads to obesity

• The countries with the world’s cleanest air

The newspapers write about…

• "Vedomosti", "RBC", "Russkaya Sluzhba BBC" and "Gazeta.Ru" on the President’s past and present "May decrees"

• "Moskovsky Komsomolets", "Gazeta.Ru", "Komsomolskaya Pravda" and "Daily Storm" on the idea of ??raising the retirement age

• “Moskovskiy Komsomolets” on the prototype of a population register in Russia

• “RBK” on child benefits

• “Forbes” on the maternity capital

• “Moskovskiy Komsomolets” on weddings

• “Novye Izvestiya” on the statistics of children taken from their homes by the state

• “Sobesednik” on planning the sex of a child

• “Wonderzine” on children

• “Sputnik” on private life

• “Russkaya sluzhba BBC” and “Primechaniya” on not wanting children

• “Novye Izvestiya” on criminal liability for teenage sex

• “Moskovskiy Komsomolets” and “Lenta.ru” on an abortion commission

• “Quyi van” on surrogate motherhood in Russia

• “Wonderzine” on ordering brides from abroad

• “BIZNES Onlines” on Indian marriages

• "Kommersant", "Russkaya Sluzhba BBC", "Le Temps" and "Daily Mail" on a project to bring Russian students back from abroad

• “Deutsche Welle” on university entrants from Central Asia

• “Kommersant” on Israeli immigrants

• “RBK” on a citizenship rating

• “Rossiyskaya Gazeta” on Russian settlers

• “Rossiyskaya Gazeta” on stateless persons

• “IQ” on de-urbanization

• "Open Democracy", "Ilta-Sanomat", "Baltnews.lv" and "Russkaya Germaniya” on refugees in Europe

• “Sputnik” on the depopulation of Latvia

• “REGNUM” on Lithuania’s human resources

• “The Washington Post” on the visa conflict between the US and Russia

• “TUT.by” on those who have moved to the Belarusian village

• “Cheremukha” on human capital

• “Izvestiya” on mortality from tuberculosis

• "Kommersant", "Rossiyskaya Gazeta" and "Moskovskiy Komsomolets" on a healthy lifestyle

• “REGNUM” on the demographic situation in the Orenburg region

• “TV Mig” and “Kommersant-Ogonyok” on self-treatment

• “Rossiyskaya Gazeta” on dealing with citizens’ appeals in the Ministry of Health

• “SciencePop” on bioethics

• “News.ru” on the history of fighting intemperance

• “Gazeta.ua” on struggling with road accidents in Ukraine

• "Kommersant", "Russkay sluzhba BBC" and "URA.RU" on HIV

• "The Village" and "Novye Izvestia" on restricting drug imports

• “Izvestiya” on maternal and infant mortality

• “Kommersant” on reducing alcohol consumption

• “Ekonomicheskiye Izvestiya” on fighting diseases with genes

• “Wired Magazine” on scientific solutions to health problems

• “Wonderzie” on intuitive nutrition

• “Rossiyskaya Gazeta” on the inefficiency of the medical insurance model

• “Gazeta.Ru” on raising unemployment benefits

• “News.ru” on a new methodology for calculating GDP

• “EurasiaNet” and “Slate.fr” on economic inequality

• “Izvestiya” on the difference in salaries between men and women

• “TASS” on cohabitation and marriage

• “Central Asia Monitor” on the movement toward monoethnicity in Kazakhstan. Part 2

• "Gazeta.Ru", "Polit.ru" and "Ukraine.Ru" on the initiative to return Ukrainians to their homeland

• “Den” on losses from the Holodomor

• “Mainichi Shimbun” on population decline in Japan

• “Moskovskiy Komsomolets” on female circumcision

• “Project Syndicate” on demystifying menstruation

• “Aeon Magazine” on consent to sex

• “The Guardian” on the importance of sex for the elderly

• “Slate.fr” on the LGBT lobby

Read books and magazines

• International Migration Report 2017

• Population and Demographic Processes [in Bulgaria] 2017

• On the state of rural areas in the Russian Federation in 2015

• The number of students, pedagogical and teaching staff, the potential number of educational organizations at all levels of education: forecast up to 2035

• Youth of Kazakhstan 2012-2016

• Through the pages of the journals “Demograficheskoye Obozreniye” ("Demographic Review") and “Ekonomika i organizatsiya promyshlennovo proizvodstva” ("Economics and Organization of Industrial Production")

• Contents of the “Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies”

Demographic Digest

• Migration from New-Accession Countries and Duration Expectancy in the EU-15: 2002–2008

• Fertility Intentions and Residential Relocations

Profession: researcher

• Adaptation and integration in Russia of migrants from the post-Soviet countries. Meeting of the Demographic Section of the Central House of Scientists of the Russian Academy of Sciences

• 85 years since the birth of Valentina Andreevna Belova

• V.A. Belova, E.M. Moreva. Remarriage among women: situation and factors

• Congratulations to Maria Yuryevna Mezhevova