"Demoscope Weekly" ## 879 - 880

We are pleased to present the contents of the recent issue of our web journal Demoscope Weekly (№ 879-880). All articles listed below are available in the Russian language only.

In this issue:

World demographic barometer

·           An aging global population — the view from 2020

o    International Day of Older Persons celebrated for thirtieth time on October 1, 2020

o    In 2020, there were 728 million people 65 years and older in the world, by 2050 their number could exceed 1.5 billion

o    Population aging is a major concern of the world's governments

o    An increasing proportion of older people live independently, either alone or together with a spouse

Q&A

·          What’s more important: a successful marriage or a good job?

·          Even if the husband has a high salary, Russian women do not want to become housewives

·          Parental leave and other support measures for families with children

·          Smoking in Russia

In the vastness of Russia

·          Putin calls demographic and social policy a priority for Russia

·          The population of St. Petersburg as of October 1, 2020 was 5,378,400

·          Fertility rate in 2020 may be 9.8 per 1000 people

·          Mean age of a woman at  birth of her first child in Moscow is 29 years

·          Healthy life expectancy of Russians is under 60 years

·          Men in Russia begin taking paternity leave more often

·          Almost 50% of Russians have achieved a balance between work and personal life

·          Government allocates 61.8 billion rubles for payments to families with children

·          Parents won’t have to collect certificates to receive child benefits

·          Sick leave and maternity benefits will be paid in new way

·          30% of Russian women 18-24 years old have lost their jobs in pandemic

·          State Duma introduces draft law on “involuntary unemployment”

·          Proportion of employed people with disabilities should double by 2025

·          Ministry of Labor names regions with maximum migration inflow

·          State Duma clarifies reasons for refusing to pay pensions to migrants and refugees

·          Russia has developed its own program of "investment citizenship"

·          Issuing residence permits in exchange for investment will not bring Russia much money

·          The proportion of foreign workers has been set for 2021

·          State Duma adopts law on new rules for migrants taking exams

·          Ministry of Internal Affairs plans to create centralized bank of biometric data

·          Ministry of Health announces fatality rate from coronavirus in Russia

·          Medicines used in the fight against COVID-19 are in short supply in pharmacies

·           Murashko warns regions about health care burden during New Year holidays

·           Sberbank identifies Russian cities with highest risk of COVID infection

·          Proposal in Russia to limit sale of strong alcohol

·          New anti-drug strategy proposes to rely on traditional spiritual and moral values ​  in fight against drugs

·          Survival of children with extremely low body weight has increased by 18% in Moscow

·          Infant mortality declines with increase in mothers’ education

·          Ministry of Health does not support proposal to exclude abortion from  compulsory medical insurance

·          Ministry of Health announces increase in condom sales

·          Digitalization of metropolitan ambulance service reduces call processing time

·          Air pollution near highways has decreased 2.3 times in 8 years

World News

·          Population of Kazakhstan has increased by 240 thousand people over the year

·          Italy faces record low demographic indicators due to low fertility

·          China intends to ease fertility policy

·          Population census postponed to 2023 in Uzbekistan

·          US visas to be issued after payment of deposit

·          UAE stops issuing visas to citizens of 13 states

·          EU chief points to failure of European Union migration systems

·          Kirgizia asks Turkey to cancel work visas for migrants

·          Compared to last year, the number of refugees and migrants in Serbia has increased by 30%

·          Swedish government makes it easier for unaccompanied children to obtain residence permits

·          California becomes  second US state with over 1 million coronavirus cases

·          11% of all deaths in England in 2020 have been due to infection with coronavirus

·          Austria reintroduces lockdown

·          Emergency mode extended in the Czech Republic until December 12

·          UK may introduce "Covid passports"

·          Finland, Norway and Estonia coped better than others in Europe with the first wave of the pandemic

·          British scientists warn of third wave of coronavirus after Christmas

·          Does the immune system quickly “forget” the coronavirus?

·          Model shows where coronavirus infections occur most often

·          Results of AstraZeneca vaccine trials in older volunteers published

·          Number of new HIV infections plummets in Beijing

·          A third of e-cigarette smokers have lung damage

·          Measles kills more than 200 thousand people worldwide

The newspapers write about...

·           Voennoye Obozreniye and La Croix on  natural decline in the population of Russia

·           Russkaya Sluzhba BBC, CNN, Yle, Kommersant and Le Figaro on coronavirus in Russia

·           Novye Izvestia and Le Monde on the shortage of doctors in the regions

·          Die Welt on the third wave of coronavirus

·           Cumhuriyet on coronavirus in Turkey

·          The Wall Street Journal on the risks of coronavirus infection

·          IQ on coronavirus vaccination

·          Nature on reducing mortality from coronavirus

·           Gazeta.Ru on the hardships of those who have had coronavirus

·          Forbes on inequality

·          REGNUM on social support measures

·          Rossiyskaya Gazeta on alcohol consumption

·          Komsomolskaya Pravda on the boundaries of youth

·           Gazeta.Ru on retirement age

·          Novaya Gazeta on work accidents of migrants

·          Le Monde and Nozh on breaking traditions

·          Forbes on family traditions in Korea

·          Project Syndicate on UN Reform

·          Slate.fr on organ xenotransplantation

Read books and magazines

·          International Migration Outlook  2020

·          Global Tuberculosis Report  2020

·          Protecting the population of Russia: health, employment, standard of living and quality of life

·          Women and men of the Kirgiz Republic 2014-2018

·          Total morbidity of the adult population of Russia in 2019

·          Through the pages of the journals Demograficheskoye Obozreniye (Demographic Review) and Rossiyskaya Pediatricheskiy Zhurnal (Russian Pediatric Journal)

·          Contents of the European Journal of Population

Profession: researcher

·          In memory of Lydia Ivanovna Grafova

o    Lydia Grafova. The migrant code of honor

o    Alla Yaroshinskaya. A life lived to the fullest 

o    Words of recognition

·          75th anniversary of the birth of Viktor Mikhailovich Medkov