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Demographic barometer

• Population of CIS countries, 2025 (part 2)
  • The number of deaths in CIS countries in 2024 was between 3 and 14 per 1,000 permanent residents
  • Life expectancy at birth varies in CIS countries from 70 to 78.6 years
  • Infant mortality has declined markedly in all CIS countries over the past 30 years, but in some of them it still exceeds 10 deaths under 1 year old per 1,000 live births
  • Marked differences in mortality between men aged 25-44 and those aged 85 and over
  • The proportion of deaths from diseases of the circulatory system and malignant neoplasms is between 57% and 75% in CIS countries

Q&A

• Mutual help and assistance
• The father’s image in modern society
• Family and income
• Material assistance to elderly relatives
• Rambler&Co study: family delights, geopolitics disappoint

In the vastness of Russia

• Government approves plan to implement family policy until 2036
• In Russian Federation, conditions for granting unified benefit have changed since the new year
• In 10 regions, maternity capital at birth was higher than average for Russia
• Putin orders to develop measures for shaping engaged fatherhood
• Russia changes rules of treatment and termination of pregnancy
• New genetic tests for parents now free
• Russia to create rating of companies with best demographic policy
• Ministry of Justice sees great potential for mediation before divorce
• Russian doctors compile list of preventable causes of death
• Incidence of sexual infections has decreased in Russia by 66% in 10 years
• Experts: in RF, incidence of tuberculosis has decreased by 3.5 times over 10 years
• Rospotrebnadzor: only half of those infected with HIV cease to be carriers after treatment
• Expert Pokrovsky: average age of mortality from HIV in RF is 40-42 years
• Russia to introduce position of "doctor of medicine of healthy longevity"
• Rules for migrants are tightened
• RF may start experiment on targeted recruitment of migrants in 2027
• Russia gives jobs to about 80,000 migrants from India
• Almost 2,800 foreigners sharing traditional values have moved to the RF

World News

• China’s population in 2025 decreased by 3.39 million people
• Asahi: Japan at the end of 2025 will set record low birth rate for 126 years
• In France, mortality exceeds fertility for first time since the end of World War II
• Poland legalizes same-sex unions
• WHO estimates number of alcohol-related deaths in Europe
• WHO calls on countries to raise taxes on sweet drinks and alcohol
• Almost 70% of American doctors use AI daily
• World: EU sees decreased number of asylum applications in 2025
• Bild: about 20,000 young Ukrainian men have entered Germany since August
• Germany for first time in 25 years records "reverse migration" of Poles

The newspapers write about…

• To be precise on the demographic results in 2025
• To be precise on the closure of demographic statistics
• RBK on migration policy
• RBK on Indian workers in Russia
• Kommersant on medical certificates of foreign workers
• Kommersant on labor mobility programs
• Izvestia on plan for implementation of family and demographic policy
• Ekonos on the impact of monetary policy on fertility
• Kommersant on financing long-term care system
• Russkaya Gazeta on new strategy for development of health care in Russia until 2030
• Kommersant on exercise being more effective than drugs in combatting obesity
• RBK on a sexual recession

Read books and magazines

• Health in Russia. 2025
• HIV. Newsletter No. 50
• Women and men in Azerbaijan
• Pensions at a glance 2025
• World malaria report 2025
• Through the pages of the journals Demograficheskoye Obozreniye (Demographic Review) and Mirovaya Ekonomika i Mezhdunarodnye Otnosheniya (World Economy and International Relations)
• Contents of the journal Demographic Research

Profession: researcher

• In memory of Konstantin Kasienin
• Happy 65th birthday to Mikhail Borisovich Denisenko
• Happy birthday to Yekaterina Alexandrovna
• Fertility in Russia: modern dynamics and generational changes. Meeting of the Demographic Section of the Central House of Scientists
• Mark Toltz. Foreign population estimates of the USSR in the first post-war decade