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Eurasian Demographic Barometer

Russia and its nearest neighbors: 30 years after the 1989 All-Union Population Census

• Censuses of the 2020 round will take place in the post-Soviet space in 2019-2024 with wider than before statistical monitoring tools

• Over the past 30 years, the population has increased in 6 former Soviet republics, in 9 it has decreased

• Significant differences in fertility persist between former Soviet republics

• Life expectancy is increasing in all the former Soviet republics, but at different rates.

• Aging of the population has begun in all countries of the post-Soviet space, but to varying degrees

• The number of international migrants has declined in all former Soviet republics except Kazakhstan and Russia

Take care of women!

• Summit on the 25th anniversary of the Cairo Conference

• Russia preparing draft law on the prevention of domestic violence

• About the Working Group of the Council of the Federation on the problem of family (domestic) violence

• Pre-abortion counseling will be funded by the Mandatory Health Insurance Fund

• Most new cases of HIV infection in 2018 are among key population groups

In the vastness of Russia

• Life expectancy of men in Russia has increased by 12 years over past 15 years

• Patriarch Kirill proposes to increase the population of Russia to 160 million

• Regional heads of Tatarstan told to increase marriage rate

• Ministry of Labor says statistics on illegitimate children are lacking

• The concept for the development of Russia until 2020 has failed

• The parameters of the new funded pension system have been disclosed

• Russians dream of a 40,000-ruble pension

• Over 75% of Russians not saving for retirement

• There is no money for indexation of payments to working pensioners

• The poor will be identified more thoroughly

• A third of Russians fear poverty more than anything

• Child benefits will have little effect on overall poverty

• Program to improve living conditions of young families may be extended

• Rosstat names regions with the lowest and highest unemployment

• Putin warns of a shortage of qualified personnel by 2030

• Over past 30 years the population of the northern regions of Russia has halved

• Russians name the best cities to move to

• The number of Russia’s single-industry towns may be halved

• Foreigners will be given the opportunity to file migration documents electronically

• Titov suggests taking security deposit from Vietnamese coming to work in Russia

• Moskalkova reports decrease in number of complaints from migrants

• In 2020, the number of HIV-infected people undergoing treatment will reach 90%

• Russia has become a leader in the number of free HIV tests

• Five-fold increase in oncological diseases found in Russian patients with HIV

• State Duma supports draft law on bringing back drying-out stations

• Mortality from strokes has been halved in Russia

• Incidence of tuberculosis in Russia over the year decreased by 4%

• Disruptions in insulin supplies in Russia

• Economists propose making prescription drugs free in Russia

• Kremlin calls Russian healthcare system incapable of self-reform

• Golikova admits unsuccessful optimization of healthcare in the regions

• Ministry of Health changes salt consumption norm for Russians

• For the first time in 25 years Russia records overall growth in crime

World News

• Population of Moldavia is declining

• In 20 years, every third resident of Germany will have migrant roots

• Ukraine census to be held in November-December 2020

• Kazakhstan will conduct census using new IT technologies

• Bishkek preparing for population and housing census

• In 2020, child benefits will increase sharply in Armenia

• By 2025, 2.6 million new jobs will have been created in Kazakhstan

• Over six thousand DPR residents have received Russian passports in past six months

• Uzbekistan plans to change procedure for going abroad

• More than 2 million foreigners live in South Korea

• The number of migrants in Italy has not increased in recent years

• The number of repatriates in Ethiopia will double in 2019

• Almost 10% of Italians live abroad

• Macedonia loses up to 3.1% of GDP due to emigration

• In 2018 Poland issued more residence permits than any other EU country

• Are Ukrainian workers the driving force of the Polish economy?

• In Estonia, a proposal to “chip” labor migrants

• Japan promises to provide 345,000 work visas to migrants from Kyrgyzstan

• Labor migration from Tajikistan has grown by a quarter since the beginning of the year

• The volume of remittances of Ukrainian migrants to their homeland has grown significantly over the past five years

• Trump lowers refugee acceptance limit to 18,000 people in 2020

• In Germany, the number of refugees decreased in 2019

• Italian authorities suggest building camps for migrants in Africa

• Israel speeds up asylum procedure for Russians

• Italian Interior Minister promises to ease decree on migration restrictions

• Rwanda sees success in fighting HIV / AIDS

• Does a higher education protect against alcoholism?

• Scientists warn of threat of hundreds of millions of homes being flooded

The newspapers write about…

• Kommersant, RBK, Forbes, TASS and Svobodnaya Pressa on a new pension scheme

• Rossiyskaya Gazeta on the census

• Patriarkhiya.ru on the Strategy of preserving the nation in the Russian Federation

• Gazeta.ru on the demographic strategy of the Russian Orthodox Church

• The American Conservative on the demographic crisis

• Gazeta.ru, Russkaya sluzhba BBC and Rossiyskaya Gazeta on the anti-alcohol campaign

• Rossiyskaya Gazeta, Kommersant, RBK, Gazeta.Ru and Novoye Vremya on medicine

• Aeon Magazine on HIV

• Haqqin.az, Izvestia and Baltnews.ee on the migration crisis

• Politika Sevodnya on migrants and migrant-phobia

• Russkaya Germaniya on the age of refugees

• REGNUM on issuing passports in Donbass

• Delovaya Stolitsa on the economic and demographic crisis in Ukraine

• Gazeta.Ru on the falling marriage rate

• REGNUM and Izvestia on an initiative to increase the marriage rate

• Gazeta.Ru on wedding loans

• Gazeta.Ru on including maternity leave in the work record

• Russkaya sluzhba BBC on male contraception

• Novye Izvestia on IVF

• Kommersant on the age imbalance

• Deutsche Welle on nursing homes

• The Guardian on cancer

• REGNUM on inequality

• Novaya Gazeta on violence

• RBK on recording poverty

• RBK on the development of the Far East

• Izvestia on single-industry towns

• Znak.com on Stalinist statistics

Read books and magazines

• Alcohol Policy Impact Case Study

• Regional features of demographic development of Russia in the 21 ^st century

• Key figures on Europe statistics illustrated

• Demographic Yearbook of the Kyrgyz Republic: 2014-2018

• Morbidity in the population of Russia in 2018

• Through the pages of the journals Zdravookhraneniye Rossiyskoy Federatsii (Healthcare of the Russian Federation) and Ekologiya Cheloveka (Human Ecology)

• Contents of the journal Population

Profession: researcher

• 135 years since the birth of Mikhail Vasilyevich Ptukha

• M.V. Ptukha. The history of the first nuptiality table

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