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Demographic barometer

• Dynamics of the urban and rural populations in Russia
  • At the beginning of 2025, the urban population of Russia was 109.8 million, while the rural population was 36.3 million.
  • The urban population continues to grow due to migration, while rural settlements are primarily losing population through migration.
  • The trend of population concentration in large cities continues
  • The proportion of urban population in the constituent entities of the Russian Federation ranges from 30.4% in the Republic of Altai to 100% in Saint Petersburg

Population and Society

• Maria Viktoriovna Vinnik. Seasonal changes in marriage during the last 150 years on the example of the Altai region

Q&A

• Love knows no age: Russians on the age gap in relationships between men and women
• Russians rely more on their ability to work until old age than on a state pension
• I’m just starting to live: I’m retiring
• Paid or free healthcare: opinions of Russians
• The right to health: guaranteed or in question?

In the vastness of Russia

• Putin on declining fertility, the joys of motherhood, and a “worn down” Golikova
• Matviyenko calls for demography meeting to be dedicated to corporate practices
• Matviyenko: Russia must be family-centered in all areas
• Matviyenko proposes implementing program to build nurseries
• Matviyenko calls for punishment for asking women about children during job interviews
• Matvienko reports lack of qualitative sociological studies
• Russia to launch registry with data on pregnant women
• Golikova: Demographic Competence Centers will open in 13 more regions
• Childless women offered family mortgages on condition of having a child
• Sociologist Rogozin outlines measures to increase fertility in wealthy families
• Public Chamber proposes compromise between mandatory and voluntary spousal mediation
• Fines for inducement to abortion in the Russian Federation could reach 800,000 rubles
• State Duma Health Committee supports amendments to Compulsory Medical Insurance Law.
• Alcohol consumption in Russia has fallen to a minimum. Expert explains whether people’s habits were only factor.
• Ministry of Health supports closure of "dives" and restrictions on alcohol sales.
• Putin approves new concept for Russia's state migration policy.
• IT solutions and traditional values. Migration policy concept highlights
• Starting December 1, biometric data will be collected from foreigners at all border crossings
• Prosecutor Generals of Russia and Tajikistan agree to cooperate in overseeing migration
• Russia reduces quota for issuing temporary residence permits to foreigners
• The number of relocants who could return to Russia has been announced
• Volodin: About 35,000 migrants have been deported from Russia in eight months

World News

• Spanish Prime Minister announces "demographic winter" in West
• Ukrainian women who left for Poland are marrying Poles en masse
• Digi24: Roma in Romanian city protest ban on child marriage
• Improved air quality has reduced sugar and blood pressure levels in adolescents
• Science shows that a sensible alcohol policy helps prevent cancer
• Bundestag cancels three-year fast-track citizenship
• Politico: British see failure of post-Brexit migration policy
• NYT: Trump may review refugee reception system in favor of white people
• Axios: Donald Trump’s migration policy could deprive US of almost 16 million workers
• FT: The Netherlands wants to deport illegals to Uganda
• The number of illegals in France is estimated at 700,000
• Less than half of Ukrainians ready to return home, poll shows
• Kiev will have to open borders for migrants, says Ukrainian economist

The newspapers write about…

• Kommersant and Novye Izvestiya on new concept of state migration policy
• Nezavisimaya Gazeta on internal migration to cities
• Vedomosti on health checks of migrants
• Ekons and Expert on the contribution of migrants to the economy of Moscow
• RBK on diasporas in Russia
• Kommersant on audit of the number of insured in the mandatory health care system
• Rossiyskaya Gazeta on extension of "Zemsky" programs
• Kommersant on mental health
• Kommersant on the fight against forced abortion
• Russkaya Gazeta on the fight against obesity
• Vedomosti on genetic screening before IVF
• Novye Izvestiya on resistance of bacteria to antibiotics
• Vedomosti on new methodology for calculating road accidents and incident rates
• Nezavisimaya Gazeta on increased risk of poverty among families with schoolchildren
• Kommersant on platform employment

Read books and magazines

• Assessment of knowledge, attitudes, and practices regarding HIV among labor migrants from Uzbekistan (2023-2024)
• Human resources of the northern regions of Russia: demography, labor, education
• Demographic yearbook of the Kyrgyz Republic: 2020-2024
• Advances in social demography
• On the state of sanitary and epidemiological well-being of the population in the Leningrad region in 2024
• Through the pages of the journals Sotsialnye aspekty zdorovya naseleniya (Social Aspects of Population Health) and Vestnik MGU Seriya 6. Ekonomika (Moscow State University Bulletin. Series 6. Economics)
• Contents of the journal Population and Development Review

Profession: researcher

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