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Demographic barometer

• Population of Central Asia: Trends and Prospects of Change (Part 2)
  • Fertility in Central Asia remains higher than the global average
  • In Central Asia, the total fertility rate ranges from 2.7 in Turkmenistan to 3.5 in Uzbekistan
  • The contribution of fertility at ages 20–24 to the total fertility rate ranges from 26% in Kazakhstan to 40% in Tajikistan
  • Life expectancy at birth in Central Asia has remained lower than the global average since the early 1990s

Q&A

• Proprietary parental leave support programs are in place in every eleventh company
• Raising children
• “Successful success”: the Mars version, the Venus version
• Attitudes toward feminism
• The number of men willing to relocate for a high-paying job has decreased over the past two years

In the vastness of Russia

• Maternity capital may exceed one million rubles in 2027
• In Russia, in 2025, the number of divorces among families with children reached its lowest level in 20 years
• The Ministry of Labor noted an increase in the number of fathers taking parental leave
• Putin called the creation of nurseries a top priority for the economy
• The State Duma is considering reducing the working day by two hours on Fridays for women
• A proposal in the State Duma suggests awarding additional pension points for childbirth
• A bill proposing 14 days of leave for fathers after the birth of a child will be introduced in the State Duma
• The Ministry of Health proposed including cancer vaccines in the mandatory health insurance program
• Expert Vasyukova: one in ten first-grade students in Russia has obesity
• The number of highly qualified foreign specialists in Russia has increased by one third
• Kolokoltsev: more than 185,000 foreign nationals have regularized their legal status in Russia
• The State Duma approved a bill tightening requirements for labor migrants
• Bastrykin reported a 7% increase in crimes committed by migrants
• The State Duma protected foreign nationals fighting in the “special military operation” from deportation
• It was proposed to deny Russian citizenship to individuals with any criminal record

World News

• A study in Poland: the ability to acquire housing and the availability of stable, well-paid employment consistently rank among the most important determinants of fertility
• Nearly 70 percent of women in Eastern Europe and Central Asia experience mistreatment during childbirth
• In China, a 63-year-old woman gave birth to a daughter following IVF
• China aims to increase average life expectancy to 80 years
• World Obesity Federation: a global epidemic of childhood obesity is underway
• Poland is widely refusing to renew residence permits for Russian nationals
• The number of Ukrainian refugees since 2022 has reached 5.6 million
• Norway will cease granting Ukrainian men the right to protection
• Bloomberg reported risks for millions of migrants in the Persian Gulf
• The main destinations of potential migration from Iran have been identified
• Bloomberg: Trump’s immigration policy did not reduce unemployment

The newspapers write about

• Nezavisimaya Gazeta and Vedomosti on Russians’ reproductive intentions
• RIA Novosti on fertility support measures
• Nezavisimaya Gazeta on the impact of wage inequality on fertility
• Novye Izvestia on the closure of children’s stores
• Novye Izvestia on the failure of the pension reform
• RBC on the entry into force of new residency training rules
• Kommersant on genetic predisposition to anemia
• Nezavisimaya Gazeta on declining access to clean water
• Kommersant on AI consultations on obesity issues
• TASS on projections of the structure of causes of death in half a century
• Econs on the role of grandmothers in human development
• RBC on the introduction of new income brackets in population surveys
• Rossiyskaya Gazeta on the legalization of labor migrants

Read books and magazines

• Demographic change and policy responses. The case of Japan
• Prevention and control of noncommunicable diseases in Georgia: case for investment
• World population highlights 2026: youth
• Population and Demographic Processes 2024
• Population, Employment and Living Conditions in the Countries of the Commonwealth of Independent States. 2024
• From the Pages of the Journals Health, Demography, Ecology of Finno-Ugric Peoples and Public Health
• Contents of the Journal Population Studies

Profession: researcher

• 95th anniversary of the birth of Arkady Aleksandrovich Isupov