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Demographic barometer

• Fertility in the European Union, 2023
  • The number of births is falling in the EU27 as the number of women of reproductive age falls
  • The total fertility rate in the EU27 fell to 1.38 in 2023, ranging from 1.06 in Malta to 1.81 in Bulgaria
  • The average age of mothers at first birth increased in the EU27 to 29.8 years, ranging from 26.9 years in Bulgaria to 31.8 years in Italy
  • The share of first-borns among births in the EU27 was 46.4% in 2023, ranging from 39.2% in Latvia to 54.5% in Luxembourg
  • The share of births outside marriage, reaching almost 43% in the EU27, has been declining moderately in recent years, dropping to 41% in 2023

Q&A

• The image of the family in modern Russian cinema
• An apartment answer to the demographic question
• When the heart trembles not from feelings: arrhythmia remains an underestimated threat
• Emigration sentiments 2025: monitoring
• Poverty: Russians' views on poverty and personal well-being

In the vastness of Russia

• Putin gives positive assessment of introduction of regional maternity capital in the Nizhny Novgorod region
• Bill on progressive scale of maternity capital will be introduced to State Duma in the fall
• Public Chamber: mortgage payments at the birth of a third child need to be indexed
• Public Chamber will ask regions to implement presidential decree on supporting large families
• State Duma introduces bill on annual payments to families with children before September 1
• In Russia, female students will begin to receive maternity benefits
• Active longevity programs have reached 1.3 million more people since beginning of year
• Russia may introduce target group scholarships in higher medical education
• Senator Timchenko: returning to Soviet methods of combating alcohol will not be effective
• Ministry of Labor proposes to reduce share of foreign workers in the Russian Federation in 2026
• The number of foreigners deported from Russia increased by 17% over six months
• Medical institutions will be able to transmit data to Ministry of Internal Affairs on assistance to migrants
• Russian may check use of residential premises before registering migrants
• Volodin: Russian schools have significantly reduced the number of migrant children accepted
• Sobyanin: technological solutions will improve migration order
• St. Petersburg installs cameras to recognize people by nationality

World News

• UN: more than 2 billion people in the world do not have access to clean drinking water
• WHO: productivity in the workplace decreases by 2-3% with each degree above 20° С
• The Lancet: doctors have become worse at diagnosing cancer due to the use of AI
• Study: COVID-19 provokes heart problems in women
• European startups in healthy aging expect record investments
• Expert Peiris believes a new pandemic is inevitable
• Kazakhstan's achievements in fight against cardiovascular diseases and cancer are noted in WHO report
• Dagens Nyheter: Sweden expects closure of one in ten kindergartens
• YouGov: 71% of Britons are unhappy with government's fight against illegal migration

The newspapers write about…

• Kommersant on tightening of migration policy
• Kommersant on the tightening of entry and stay rules for minor foreigners
• Rossiyskaya Gazeta and Kommersant on restricting migrant work in some sectors of the economy
• Rossiyskaya Gazeta on the problem of educating migrant children
• Kommersant on the abuse of medical care by foreigners
• Kommersant on the statistics of entry of foreign citizens
• Izvestia on migrants compensating for low fertility in Europe
• Kommersant on the reasons for postponing childbearing
• Izvestia and Nezavisimaya Gazeta on measures to support fertility
• Vedomosti on promoting family values
• Vedomosti on support for common-law wives of SVO participants
• Kommersant and RBK on targeted recruitment to medical schools
• Expert on reducing the cost of treatment
• Kommersant on the slowdown of the medtech market
• Kommersant on the effectiveness of AI in treating diseases
• Esli byt’ tochnym on an increase in dropped murder charges under certain articles of the criminal code
• Rossiyskaya Gazeta on comfortable living rating of cities

Read books and magazines

• NCDS at a glance 2025. NCDS surveillance and monitoring: noncommunicable disease mortality and risk factor prevalence in the Americas
• The state of oncological care for the population Russia in 2024
• The role of migration and fertility for the future size of EU population
• Materials for the state report on the sanitary and epidemiological well-being of the population in the Kursk region in 2024
• Social status and standard of living of the population of the Republic of Belarus, 2025
• Through the pages of the journals Narodonaseleniye (Population) and Uroven’ zhizni naseleniya regionov Rossii (Standard of living of the population of the regions of Russia)
• Contents of the magazine Demography

Profession: researcher

• Congratulations to Alexander Vladimirovich Akimov on his 75th anniversary
• 85 years since the birth of Tamara Mikhailovna Maksimova
• In memory of Tamara Mikhailovna Maksimova