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Contents of Demoscope Weekly issue

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Demographic barometer

  • Population of the CIS Countries, 2025 (Part 1)
    • The combined population of the CIS countries at the beginning of 2025, according to the Interstate Statistical Committee of the CIS, was 254 million, excluding Ukraine
    • Natural population growth was maintained between 1991 and 2024 in all CIS countries except Ukraine, Belarus, Russia, and Moldova
    • Children under 15 make up from 15% of the population in Ukraine to 36% of the population in Tajikistan, while older adults aged 65 and over make up from 4% in Tajikistan to 18% in Moldova and Belarus.
    • In all CIS countries except Tajikistan and Uzbekistan, women outnumber men
    • Total fertility rate in CIS countries ranges from 1.0 to 3.4 children per woman

Q&A

  • How Russians take care of their health: key trends and conclusions
  • AI and medicine: confidence in doctors' diagnoses remains absolute
  • Medicine, communication and leisure - areas where Russians prefer to receive services offline
  • Alcohol consumption
  • Personal responsibility against addiction and infantilism

In the vastness of Russia

  • Putin: fertility in Russia is falling due to objective factors
  • Matvienko: family mortgage conditions do not help raise fertility
  • Duma Deputies propose new measures to support large families in Russia
  • “New people" propose opening courses for future fathers in women’s consultations
  • In Novosibirsk region, eight people accused of embezzling social benefits
  • Murashko: child mortality in Russia has more than halved in 10 years
  • Alcohol consumption in Russia has fallen to a low since 1997
  • Putin approves strategy for healthcare development until 2030
  • Murashko: technological independence of healthcare will reach 80% by 2030
  • Sobyanin: life expectancy of Muscovites is approaching 80 years
  • Volodin: to solve demographic issues, it is necessary to stop population outflow from villages
  • Since the beginning of the year, more than 16,000 Russians have been removed from fictitious registration
  • Starting in 2026, new ID mark will appear in Russian passports
  • Sobyanin says Moscow needs 500,000 specialists
  • Proposal to reduce period of visa-free stay of migrants to 30 days
  • Package of draft laws on labor migration submitted to Duma
  • Russian Ambassador in New Delhi says about 70,000 Indians work in Russia

World News

  • WHO releases first international guidelines on infertility
  • WHO: 6% of people are still struggling with consequences of COVID-19
  • Gates: reducing US health aid will increase infant mortality
  • Media reports $833 million in revenue from heirless citizens in Japan
  • Trump instructs US Department of Health to study vaccination schedules in other countries
  • Welt: Germany registers over 100,000 asylum seekers for 13th consecutive year
  • Hungary intends to challenge EU migration pact in court
  • CTK: Czech government rejects EU migration pact
  • Lithuania decides to pay EU compensation for unaccepted migrants
  • Lithuania revokes temporary residence permits for 145 Russians
  • US suspends green card lottery following shooting at Brown University
  • US believes era of mass migration must end
  • US has spent $2 billion from Pentagon budget to combat migrants
  • Sri Lanka ready to facilitate flow of migrant workers to Russia

The newspapers write about…

  • TASS and RBK on demographic topics at the National Projects Council
  • RBK and Kommersant on responsible fatherhood
  • RBK on the need to improve family mortgages
  • TASS on maternal health
  • Rossiyskaya Gazeta on the ban on migrants working in various industries and occupations
  • Nezavisimaya Gazeta on the labor market shortage
  • Kommersant on the quality of engineering training
  • RBK and Kommersant on relaxed admissions requirements for migrants with Russian as their native language
  • TASS on healthcare development strategy
  • Vedomosti on compulsory work placement for medical school graduates
  • Kommersant on access to Federal Register of Healthcare Workers
  • Kommersant on Moscow Region proposal to ban incitement to abortion
  • Esli byt’ tochnym on stopping publication of some disability data
  • Rossiyskaya Gazeta on vaccination schedule
  • Vedomosti on the goal of reducing alcohol consumption
  • Izvestia and Econs on the future of small and large cities
  • Nezavisimaya Gazeta on high-rise and low-rise construction
  • Econs on the accelerated aging of the population in developing countries
  • Vedomosti on China's silver economy
  • L'Express on the demographic challenges of the US

Read books and magazines

  • Health at a glance 2025
  • Health systems in transition Slovakia
  • Demographic explosions in Kazakhstan: historical experience and modern potential
  • World Urbanization Prospects 2025
  • Preserving the population of Russia: health, employment, standard and quality of life
  • Through the pages of the journals Sotsiologicheskiye Issledovaniya (Sociological Research) and Ekologiya Cheloveka (Human Ecology)
  • Contents of the European Journal of Population

Profession: researcher

  • Happy birthday to Tatyana Leonidovna Kharkova!
  • List of T.L. Kharkova's works since 2021
  • First foreign estimates of the demographic dynamics of the USSR between the 1926 and 1939 censuses

Student Page

  • Academic event announcements from the student society “Demographer”

 
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