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Demographic barometer

• Disabled people in Russia, 2025
  • By the beginning of 2025, 11.1 million people with disabilities were registered in Russia, or 7.6% of the total population of the country
  • Among the disabled people of Russia, the most numerous are those of groups II and III - 40 and 42%, respectively; disabled people of group I make up about 11%, and disabled children - 7%
  • Among the disabled people of Russia, 56% are people of older working age, including 37% who are women of older working age
  • The number of disabled children by the beginning of 2025 exceeded 779,000 people, or 2.6% of the population under 18 years of age
  • The number of people recognized as disabled for the first time increased in 2023 by 28% - to 726,000 people, or 6.2 per 1,000 people

Population and Society

• Yulia Vladimirovna Khavraeva. Infant Mortality in Moscow in 1939-1949

Q&A

• Family and Marriage in Russia in the 21st Century
• Marriage and planning for children
• On plans to undergo state medical exam
• Anti-Alcohol campaigns: yesterday and today
• Russians on reducing the working day by one hour for women: 67% for, 17% against

In the vastness of Russia

• Ostanina suggests government adopt new measure to support families
• Cabinet of Ministers approves increase in maternity benefits for female students
• Russians offered “demographic week” to increase fertility
• Russian Public Chamber proposes to pay additional 10% to pension of mothers who have given birth to three children
• Golikova: transfer of main amount of maternity capital to second child must be assessed
• Ostanina names catastrophic consequences of abortion ban
• Self-treatment in Russia remains a serious health problem
• Ministry of Health outlines main tasks until 2030
• Murashko: up to 35,000 patients with congenital diseases are diagnosed in the Russian Federation every year
• Mikhail Murashko identifies reserves for reducing mortality
• Ministry of Health: alcohol consumption in Russia has decreased by 11% over five years
• Russians have begun drinking more over past year
• Murashko: restrictions on alcohol sale in regions have reduced mortality from it
• Rosalkogoltobakkontrol: sharp restrictions on the sale of alcohol increase the black market
• In the Russian Federation, since 2015, the mortality rate from tuberculosis has decreased by 67.3%
• Rospotrebnadzor: The situation with HIV infection in the Russian Federation is stabilizing
• The number of pensioners registered with the Social Fund in April was 40.9 million people
• In Russian Federation, possible to not register at new address when moving within same region
• Government approves rules for providing medical care to foreigners in Russia
• VTsIOM: society's demand for smart regulation of migration will increase
• State Duma introduces possibility for migrants to work with one patent in two regions
• In Moscow and the Moscow region, migrants will begin to register through app
• Titov says businesses in the Russian Federation must pay for support of hired migrants
• Rosobrnadzor: 81% of migrant children were denied Russian language test
• Bastrykin announces tens of thousands of naturalized Russians "on the front lines"

World news

• Cabinet of Ministers approves Concept of Demographic Policy of Kyrgyzstan until 2040
• Belstat reports how fertility in Belarus has changed over eight years
• WHO member states adopt historic agreement to improve pandemic preparedness
• Link between smoking and frequent development of lung diseases in women refuted
• Revolution in the treatment of "heart patients"? Gene therapy will make heart muscle cells recover
• UN: almost half of women's organizations face closure due to crisis
• China to allocate additional $500 million to WHO over next five years
• Lithuania files lawsuit against Belarus in UN court over migrant situation
• Tusk announces readiness to close border with Germany due to expulsion of migrants to Poland
• Ukraine youth population decreases by more than 2 million people
• Trump administration requests 20,000 troops to combat migrants
• International Labor Organization: AI will not replace humans, but will transform work

The newspapers write about…

• Esli byt’ tochnym on demographic losses during the Great Patriotic War
• Expert on human and material losses during the Great Patriotic War
• Vedomosti on demographic development scenarios
• Expert on robotization in the next decade
• News.ru on demographic politics
• URA.RU on inclusion of fertility indicators in governors' KPIs
• Esli byt’ tochnym on abortions in Russia
• RBK on European aid to poor countries in exchange for curbing migration
• URA.RU on the fight against migrant enclaves
• Kommersant on monitoring the location of migrants
• Izvestia on the first results of Russian language testing for migrant children
• Nezavisimaya Gazeta on the transformation of diasporas into national-cultural autonomies
• Kommersant on additional testing of migrant doctors for knowledge of the Russian language
• Kommersant on the non-medical workload of doctors
• Kommersant on the digitalization of healthcare
• Kommersant on assessing economic losses from cardiovascular diseases
• Kommersant on the fight against HIV
• Kommersant on the fortieth anniversary of Gorbachev's anti-alcohol campaign

Read books and magazines

• Cyprus. Health Systems in Transition
• Levels & trends in child mortality report 2024
• New directions in South-South migration
• Population and demographic processes 2023
• Sustainable development goals in the Russian Federation. 2024
• Through the pages of the journals DEMIS and Ekonomika regiona (Economics of the Region)
• Contents of the journal Studies in Family Planning

Profession: researcher

• Air temperature and health of the population in Russian cities: results of the first countrywide study, 2000-2019 Seminar of the International Laboratory for Population and Health Research, HSE
• Congratulations to Alexander Alexandrovich Avdeev on his 70th birthday