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Russian demographic barometer

Demographic results for the first half of 2020 in Russia (part II)

• The number of deaths has been rising since May 2020

• In 2019, mortality decreased from all major classes of causes of death, except for diseases of the digestive system and neoplasms

• More than 90% of those who died from certain infectious and parasitic diseases and about 80% of those who died from external causes in Russia did not reach the age of 65

• Infant mortality in the first half of 2020 continued to decline, dropping to 4.4‰

• In January-July 2020, according to Rosstat estimates, 37.9 thousand deaths were registered with an established diagnosis of COVID-19

September 10, 2020 - World Suicide Prevention Day

• Suicides and their prevention in Russia, 2019: key facts

Take care of women!

• 25 years of the Beijing Declaration

• What is reproductive health and what to think of IVF: opinions of Russians

• Russians support introduction of sex education in schools

• Montenegro becomes first Balkan country to legalize same-sex civil partnerships

In the vastness of Russia

• In past seven months natural population decline in Russia has exceeded indicators for all of 2019

• Rosstat predicts natural population decline in Russia until 2030

• Will Russia's population decrease by 40 million by 2100?

• Peskov calls the demographic problem Russia’s "Achilles heel"

• Chechnya now has Russia’s highest fertility

• Maternity capital can’t solve fertility problem in Russia

• Maternity capital will grow by 3.7% in 2021

• Muscovites will be given up to 31,680 rubles for a strong marriage

• Cabinet of Ministers decides to forbid lowering subsistence minimum

• Medvedev proposes introduction of minimum guaranteed income

• Unemployed parents will receive an additional payment of 3000 rubles in September

• Federation Council proposes to introduce additional benefits to the unemployed during pandemic

• One in two Russians would like to live by the sea in retirement

• About 13% of Russians dream of their children living in Moscow

• 16% of Russian citizens are considering moving for permanent residence abroad

• Ministry of Internal Affairs preparing new law on legal status of foreign citizens

• Visa procedure to be simplified for foreigners with relatives in Russia

• Roszdravnadzor head confirms inaccuracy of Russian mortality statistics from COVID-19

• According to Rospotrebnadzor, a coronavirus survivor remains contagious for three months

• Russian coronavirus vaccine released into circulation

• Russian regions will begin mass vaccination against coronavirus only in 2021

• Rosstat names regions of Russia with the highest number of smokers

• Mishustin announces plans to increase excise taxes on tobacco products

• Financing of cancer care to be increased at the expense of other areas of healthcare

• Expert predicts possible increase in mortality from tuberculosis

• Russia needs a change in state policy regarding sex education

• Russians support introduction of sex ed in schools

World News

• The population of the Czech Republic is 10.7 million

• Over last 20 years the population of Belarus has decreased by almost 632 thousand people

• In recent years the number of children in Ukraine has decreased by 40%

• Azerbaijan ranks second in gender imbalance after China

• Japan records over 80,000 citizens aged 100 or more for first time ever

• Mortality in Belarus in June 2020 breaks five-year record

• Child mortality rate in North Korea is six times higher than in South Korea

• 54 million people in the United States may face food insecurity

• In 2050, the living space of a billion people will be under threat

• Young Americans returning to live with their parents

• The share of Kirgiz citizens wishing to move to Russia is growing

• Sweden's two ruling parties must agree on immigration policies

• In 2019, 44% of Britons were in favor of reducing immigration

• International Organization for Migration helps Tajik migrants to return home

• WHO chief says coronavirus pandemic won’t be the last

• WHO predicts increase in deaths in Europe due to COVID-19 in October and November

• Coronavirus incidence on the rise in France

• Do antibodies to coronavirus decrease in just a month?

• Universal vaccination against COVID-19 won’t be possible until 2024

• Coronavirus deepens gender discrimination in Japan

• Is there a relationship between subjective well-being and a region’s sex ratio?

• Vaping could lead to breast cancer

• World facing obesity problem

• In Japan, a proposed alternative to conventional graves

The newspapers write about…

• OTR, REGNUM and Nezavisimaya Gazeta on the demographic situation in Russia

• Moskovsky Komsomolets, Le Figaro, Svenska Dagbladet on mortality from coronavirus

• Russkaya sluzhba BBC and Kommersant on a second wave of coronavirus

• Russkaya sluzhba BBC on a coronavirus vaccine

• Kommersant on vaccination against coronavirus

• Frankfurter Allgemeine on protective equipment

• Nezavisimaya Gazeta, RBK, Kommersant and Izvestia on changes in migration legislation

• Le Figaro, Dagens Nyheter and Kommersant on migration policy in Europe

• Project Syndicate on the migration crisis

• Vzglyad and Russkaya sluzhba BBC on the situation of migrants

• Den’ on the migration of peoples

• Moskovsky Komsomolets on the labor market

• Moskovsky Komsomolets on political demography

• REGNUM on pension reform

• Nezavisimaya Gazeta on healthcare reform

• Vechernyaya Moskva on the sexual revolution

• Der Spiegel on the seasonality of births

• Le Figaro on surrogacy

• Trud on wedding ceremonies

• Moskovsky Komsomolets on moving the Russian capital

• Do Rzeczy on Poland’s demographic situation

• Strana.ua on Ukraine’s demographic situation

Read books and magazines

• Violence and injuries in Europe: burden, prevention and priorities for action

• Return migration: international approaches and regional features of Central Asia

• The Great Patriotic War. Features. Human losses. Victory factors

• Population and social indicators of the CIS countries and individual countries of the world. 2016-2019

• Socially significant diseases of the population of Russia in 2019

• Through the pages of the magazines Narodonaseleniye (Population) and Mirovaya Ekonomika i Mezhdunarodnye Otnosheniya (World Economy and International Relations)

• Contents of the journal Demography

Profession: researcher

• 140th anniversary of the birth of Lev Iosifovich Lubny-Gertsyk

• o N. Maksimchik. The Belarusian period in the scientific and pedagogical activities of Professor L. I. Lubny-Gertsyk (1880-1965)

The reading room

• L.I. Lubny-Gertsyk. Population movement on the territory of the USSR during the World War and Revolution