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Demographic Barometer

• Morbidity in Russia’s regions, 2024
  • From 2004 to 2024, primary incidence of all diseases increased in most regions of the Russian Federation.
  • In 72 of Russia’s 85 regions respiratory diseases accounted for 45% to 60% of primary incidence in 2024
  • Injuries, poisonings, and some other consequences of external causes accounted for 3% to 15% of primary incidence, while circulatory diseases accounted for 2% to 9%.
  • The number of patients with malignant neoplasms is increasing in almost all regions of the Russian Federation.
  • The incidence of some infectious and parasitic diseases decreased in almost all regions from 2004 to 2024.
  • The prevalence of alcoholism and drug addiction is declining in most regions of Russia.

Q&A

• Love with calculation: Russians on financial relationships in couples
• The closest people for Russians are mothers, significant others, and children
• Can a woman successfully combine a career and kids?
• Women are more likely to see work as a calling, while men are more likely to see it as a career
• 4 in 10 Russian adults smoke
• The pains and demands of Russian society: A study of the effectiveness of social policy in Russia

In the vastness of Russia

• Russians are told who will be affected by 2028 microcensus
• Putin orders statistical monitoring of population's reproductive plans
• Mortgage benefits for a fourth child and the promotion of values. Putin's instructions
• Large families in Russia will retain right to benefits if income exceeds 10% of subsistence minimum.
• In Russia a new edition of corporate demographic standard guide
• Public Chamber proposes introducing paternity capital of 2 million rubles for large families
• Public Chamber says adult children living with their parents is an obstacle to demographic development
• Public Chamber proposes introducing "joint" maternity leave in Russia
• Ministry of Health approves new procedure for medical care for pregnant and postpartum women
• Unified patient registry to include 12 groups of diagnoses
• Golikova notes decrease in mortality from cancer, tuberculosis, and HIV in Russia
• Cabinet of Ministers approves Demographic Policy Strategy for Far Eastern Federal District until 2030
• State Duma reduces period for migrants to undergo medical examination after entry to 30 days
• Migrants with incomes below subsistence level will not be able to obtain a work permit
• Ministry of Internal Affairs calls for tougher measures against illegal migrant labor on construction sites
• Russian Ambassador to India: More than 70,000 Indians work in Russia
• Ambassador in Moscow: Russia and Afghanistan are in dialogue to attract Afghan migrants
• 36,000 Tajik citizens deported from Russia in 2025

World News

• Switzerland to hold population limit referendum
• Media predicts first US population decline in 108 years
• Poland raises alarm over rapid population decline
• Korean governor proposes "importing" girls to boost fertility
• Database of parental leave policies in Europe has been created
• US develops world's first HIV vaccine effective after a single injection
• WHO: Up to 40 percent of cancer cases can be prevented
• The Lancet: Artificial intelligence will improve breast cancer detection
• Measles incidence in Europe and Central Asia has declined, but danger remains
• Taiwan authorities will offer citizens "health coins" for vaccination and cancer screening
• Tajik Ministry of Labor announces efforts to diversify labor migration
• Telegraph: Three African countries will accept thousands of illegal immigrants from Britain

The newspapers write about

• Esli byt’ tochnym on a reduction in the availability of statistical data
• Kommersant on the organization of illegal migration
• Rossiyskaya Gazeta on the punishment of foreigners who change their names to enter Russia
• RBK on Indian migrants in Russia
• Esli byt’ tochnym on the decline in the number of first-graders with foreign citizenship
• Kommersant on the decline in the entry of foreigners into Russia
• Nezavisimaya Gazeta and RBK on the decline in the proportion of students entering 10th grade
• Kommersant on attracting foreign students to Russia
• Esli byt’ tochnym on the seasonality of marriage
• RBK on limiting the range of recipients of child benefits for low-income families
• Vedomosti on the impact of child benefit indexation on the standard of living of families with children
• Kommersant on the fight against poverty and its natural decline
• Kommersant on sexually transmitted infections
• Expert on a change in the global demographic picture by mid-century

Read books and magazines

• WHO global report on trends in tobacco use prevalence 2000-2024 and projections 2025-2030
• Migration Studies of Belarus. Part 1. Migration theory and the history of Belarusian migration studies
• Migration Studies of Belarus. Part 2. Current migration processes in Belarus
• Sustainable development goals in the Russian Federation. 2025
• Social dynamics of the population and human potential
• Through the pages of the journals Sotsialnye aspekty zdorovya naseleniya (Social Aspects of Population Health) and Analiz riska zdorovyu (Health Risk Analysis0
• Contents of the journal Population & Societes

Profession: researcher

• Happy birthday to Gayane Levonovna Safarova!
• Population losses in the USSR in 1941-1945 according to postwar estimates of Russian emigres

New in the reading room

• Population of Crimea in the late 18th - late 20th centuries (size, distribution, ethnic composition)