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Demographic Barometer

• Migration in Russia, preliminary results for 2024
  • In 2024 migration growth of the population of Russia, according to preliminary data, increased by 2.8 times, exceeding 568,000 people, including 535,000 people in population exchange with other countries
  • For the fourth year, Russia has received its largest migration growth in population exchange with Tajikistan – 128,000 people in 2024
  • The number of migrants moving within Russia decreased by 11% in 2024
  • In 2024, due to migration exchange with the CIS countries, the population of 77 out of 85 regions increased, due to exchange with other regions of Russia - 20
  • The number of forced migrants and refugees in Russia continued to decline in 2024

Q&A

• 36% of Russians are for raising youth to 40 years
• More husbands are ready to take parental leave instead of their wives
• Why Russians are looking for another job: dissatisfaction with bosses, lack of career growth, and burnout, but in first place is low salary
• Meritocracy Russian-style
• Politics: no place for women?

In the vastness of Russia

• State Council Commission will look for new approaches to increasing fertility
• Russians name required amount of financial cushion for first year of a child's life
• More than 40 regions have received funds from Russian government to increase fertility
• Duma proposal to prepare Russians for family life starting in kindergarten
• Murashko supports idea of ????increasing the age of youth
• Duma names negative consequences of raising the age of youth
• In 2024, there were up to 130,000 excess deaths in Russia
• Ministry of Health: almost 6 million Russians suffer from diabetes
• Expert Teplova: type 2 diabetes can develop asymptomatically for a long time
• Almost a third of Russians support ban on sale of alcohol to those under 21
• In Vologda region, the number of ambulance calls for alcohol poisoning has decreased by 26%
• Putin creates new service for citizenship and migrants
• Ministry of Internal Affairs will present updated concept of migration policy to the government in the fall
• Russia sets passing score for Russian language test for migrant children
• The number of people deported from the Russian Federation increased by 1.5 times in 2024

World News

• Belarus recognized as country with one of the lowest maternal mortality rates
• UN: COVID-19 pandemic caused an increase in mortality during pregnancy in 2021
• Head of WHO office in Russia: the pandemic claimed the lives of over 7 million people
• Head of WHO office in Russia: medicine is moving towards people living more than 100 years
• Biologists doubt the inevitable victory of bacteria in the "arms race" with antibiotics
• WHO: gender issue should be regulated by national legislation
• Bild: Merz is negotiating with Germany's neighbors to tighten migration policy
• The Economist: two times fewer Ukrainian refugees want to return to their homeland
• Euractiv: EU has no plan for refugees from Ukraine after end of conflict
• EC: social protection measures for Ukrainian refugees will be in effect until March 4, 2026

The newspapers write about…

• Nezavisimaya Gazeta on the results of the government's work
• IA Regnum on testing migrant children on knowledge of the Russian language
• Kommersant on the repatriation program
• Kommersant on a decrease in the number of foreigners receiving a Russian passport
• Izvestia on the increase in the issuance of work permits
• RBK on increasing the length of stay in Russia on an electronic visa
• Kommersant on the slowdown in demand for labor
• Kommersant on the increase in the average age of workers
• Esli byt’ tochnym on the reduction in the poverty level
• Novye Izvestia on the financial well-being of Russian households
• Rossiyskaya Gazeta on maternity tourism
• Expert on the demographic development of cities
• TASS on the fate of foreigners moving to Russia
• Expert on the creation of a service for citizenship and registration of foreign citizens
• Kommersant on new procedure for conducting medical examinations of students to prevent drug use
• Nezavisimaya Gazeta on the need to revise pricing for medical treatment
• Kommersant on inspection of the obstetrics and gynecology service
• RIA Novosti on measures to increase fertility
• TASS and Ura.ru on payments to pregnant schoolgirls
• News.ru on demographic topics within the framework of the Moscow Economic Forum
• RBK on increasing pensions for mothers with many children
• Nezavisimaya Gazeta on the lack of pension points
• Nezavisimaya Gazet on the aging of the population and the approaching crisis of the pension system
• Kommersant on the decline in flu incidence and the increase in vaccinations
• Esli byt’ tochnym on the principles of forming survey samples

Read books and magazines

• Demographic well-being of the regions of Russia
• The demographic yearbook of Poland 2024
• Luxembourg. Health Systems in Transition
• EU country cancer profiles synthesis report 2025
• Reproduction policy in the twenty-first century
• Through the pages of the magazines Demograficheskoye obozreniye (Demographic Review) and Mirovaya ekonomika i mezhdunarodnye otnosheniya (World Economy and International Relations)
• Contents of the magazine Population

Profession: researcher

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