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Demographic barometer

• World Urbanization Trends According to 2025 UN Estimates (Part 1)
  • UN presents results of latest revision of global urbanization prospects, obtained using new approach to defining urban areas and populations.
  • Calculations taking into account the degree of urbanization show a higher number of urban residents.
  • The share of residents in cities and other urban areas exceeds 80% of the world's population; the share of the urban population by national criteria is only approaching 58%.
  • The fastest-growing population is in cities
  • The pace of urbanization is gradually slowing

Q&A

• Who’s boss in the family?
• Attitudes toward abortion
• Kazan overtakes St. Petersburg in ranking of best cities for a career
• Most Russians identify as Orthodox
• A record number of young women want to leave the United States

In the vastness of Russia

• The number of large families in Russia has grown by almost 9% since the beginning of the year
• Deputies have equated heroine mothers with Heroes of Labor
• LDPR proposes reducing work week for one parent of a large family
• Public Chamber proposes introducing maternity capital of 1 million rubles for third child
• More than 30 Russian regions have restricted abortions
• State Duma Deputy Nina Ostanina criticizes term "inducement to abortion"
• State Duma establishes pensions for children born 300 days after the death of their father
• The demographic crisis directly affects the Russian Orthodox Church, says Patriarch Kirill
• Demographic competence center created in Omsk Region
• Demographic council created in Orenburg Region
• AI system for automatically coding ICD diagnoses has been created
• Expert Klimenko: Russia has seen a decline in alcohol consumption over the past 15 years
• Russia stops publishing data on cancer mortality
• In Russia, the mortality rate for patients with circulatory diseases has decreased by 33%
• Doctor Mokrysheva estimates the number of Russians with diabetes
• Freelance expert at Ministry of Health assesses data on increase in the number of HIV patients
• Russia has developed the world's first rapid test for diagnosing hepatitis C
• Putin signs law on targeted training and practice for doctors in the compulsory medical insurance system
• Russian Federation's Federal Pension Fund announces the number of pensioners in Russia
• Putin approves road safety strategy for 2030-2036
• The first 12 immigration checkpoints have opened at Russian airports
• Poverty rate in Russia reaches 30-year low

World News

• Japan begins to combat population decline
• Tokyo switches to four-day work week to boost fertility
• Ukraine's population has decreased by 10 million in 11 years
• WHO records decline in tuberculosis cases globally for the first time since 2020
• Lancet: Ultra-processed foods harm almost every human organ
• WHO: 25% of primary school-aged children in Europe are overweight
• WHO proposes solving the healthcare shortage problem by implementing AI
• Kazakhstan approves law banning LGBT propaganda
• WHO: America has lost its status as a region free of endemic measles
• Poland demands complete exemption from "Migration Pact"
• Britain's Home Office says illegal migration is tearing country apart
• European Commission bans issuance of new multiple-entry visas to Russian citizens

The newspapers write about…

• Kommersant on the Indian workforce
• Rossiyskaya Gazeta on expanding the list of grounds for dismissal of migrants
• Kommersant on the ban on migrant taxi drivers
• Kommersant on the scale of Russia's repatriation potential
• RBK on the ban on deportation of foreigners participating in special operations
• Kommersant on the system of organized migrant recruitment
• Kommersant on the decline in the number of foreign visits to Russia
• RBK on health conditions as a reason for US visa denial
• Vedomosti on language requirements in immigration policy
• Esli byt’ tochnym on teaching children in their native language
• Esli byt’ tochnym on the popularity of vocational schools
• Kommersant on mandatory work for graduates of medical and vocational schools
• Kommersant on road accident victims
• Kommersant on the impact of alcohol consumption on careers
• Vedomosti on alcohol consumption in Russia's regions
• Nezavisimaya Gazeta on the decline in pensioners' living standards
• Izvestia on the decline in the number of pensioners
• Vedomosti on the decline in the number of researchers in the last decade
• Kommersant on the proposal to donate "excess" embryos to the state
• Kommersant on the Smolensk region's readiness to ban abortions in private clinics
• Kommersant on the decline in tuberculosis worldwide

Read books and magazines

• International migration outlook 2025
• Changes in the social structure of Russian and Chinese societies over the past 20 years
• Global status report on neurology
• Demographic situation in Georgia 2024
• Monitoring quality of life indicators in the Commonwealth of Independent States countries 2021-2024
• Through the pages of the journals Problemy sotsialnoy gigieny, zdravookhraneniya i istorii meditsiny (Problems of Social Hygiene, Healthcare, and the History of Medicine) and Vestnik MGU. Seriya 18. Sotsiologiya i politologiya (Vestnik of Moscow State University. Series 18. Sociology and Political Science)
• Contents of the journal Genus

Profession: researcher

• Second Demographic Readings in Memory of A.G. Vishnevsky “Theory of demographic transition and the future of the population of Russia and the world”
• Happy birthday to Ekaterina Mikhailovna Shcherbakova!

Student Page

• Student expedition of the Faculty of Social Sciences "Population Migration in Peripheral Northern Settlements (using the Murmansk Region as an example)" (August 16-30, 2025) – a collective diary