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Demographic barometer

• Population of Transcaucasia: Trends and Prospects for Change (Part 2)
  • Fertility in Transcaucasia is lower than the global average and has not ensured eplacement-level fertilitysince the mid-1990s.
  • The contribution of fertility at ages 20–29 to the total fertility rate ranges from 56% in Georgia to 68% in Azerbaijan.
  • Life expectancy at birth in Transcaucasia exceeds the global average, surpassing 74 years in all three countries.
  • Under-five mortalityin the countries of Transcaucasia ranges from 9 deaths per 1,000 live births in Georgia to 17 in Azerbaijan, compared to 36 globally.

Q&A

• Dating: Russians on where it is easier to find a partner
• Parental opinion in choosing a bride or groom
• Electronic medical records: from innovation to routine
• Pension expectations have increased by 7%: 53,500 rubles nationwide, 57,900 in Moscow
• Trust in the Russian Orthodox Church and its influence on public life

In the vastness of Russia

• The Civic Chamber called for providing benefits to pregnant women regardless of income
• Golikova: students will be able to receive 200,000 rubles upon the birth of a child
• In Russia, over 100,000 women became donors of the “pregnancy hormone” over the year
• A bill on paternity for children born after the father’s death has been introduced to the State Duma
• Pregnant women living in rural areas of Russia will have their trips to gynecologists covered
• In Moscow, access to free IVF has doubled since 2019
• In the Smolensk region, student mothers will receive payments of 100,000 rubles
• The government has expanded the program of free medical care to include cancer treatment
• Analysts reported on disease trends among Russians in 2025
• Vyacheslav Volodin proposed addressing labor shortages without attracting migrants
• The government approved fingerprinting of migrants from Tajikistan prior to their arrival
• The Supreme Court: convicted foreign nationals will be deported from Russia despite marriage to Russian citizens

World News

• Scientists have warned of global overpopulation
• The world’s largest digital population census has begun in India
• Post-COVID syndrome will cost OECD countries $135 billion annually
• Lancet Neurology: the number of deaths from meningitis worldwide has decreased by 55% since 1990
• WHO has declared a full-scale healthcare crisis in the Middle East
• Reuters: the United States has revised supplies of HIV and malaria medicines to the poorest countries
• China will ban the burial of relatives in vacant apartments
• Expert Gladun: about 6 million people have left Ukraine since 2022
• More than 100 Ukrainians have been expelled from Switzerland following tighter asylum rules

The newspapers write about

• “Kommersant” on the shortage of physicians
• “Nezavisimaya Gazeta” on the constitutional review of the law on mandatory service for medical professionals
• “Vedomosti” on the regulation of the circulation of electronic cigarettes and vapes
• “Kommersant” on the inclusion of cancer vaccines in the compulsory health insurance system
• “Kommersant” on a new program for treating children with autism
• “Nezavisimaya Gazeta” on the positive effect of the placebo
• “Vedomosti” on the postponement of marriage
• “Econs” on China’s transformation into a leader in pharmaceutical innovation
• “Kommersant” on the ranking of graduate success from universities and colleges
• «RBC” on the non-prohibition of abortion
• “Nezavisimaya Gazeta” on Russia’s spatial development
• “Vedomosti” on urban statistics data
• “Nezavisimaya Gazeta” on society’s aspiration for social equality

Read books and magazines

• A healthy future: primary health care and the chronic disease epidemic in East Asia and Pacific
• State Report on the Situation of Children and Families with Children in the Russian Federation, 2024
• Migration, diaspora and transnationalism. South Asian experiences
• Ethnodemographic Processes in the Eurasian Space: Transformations and Challenges to Sustainable Development
• The demographic yearbook of Poland 2025
• From the pages of the journals “Demographic Review” and “Living Standards of the Population in the Regions of Russia”
• Contents of the journal “Genus”

Profession: researcher

• Congratulations to Alekseenko Aleksandr Nikolaevich on his anniversary!
• 210th anniversary of the birth of Aleksandr Petrovich Roslavsky-Petrovsky

New in the Reading Room

• Anatoly Grigorievich Vishnevsky. Intercepted Letters
• Lectures on Statistics Delivered at the Imperial Kharkov University by Adjunct Aleksandr Roslavsky