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Regular version of the site

"Demoscope Weekly" ## 941 - 942

In the issue: 
Foreign labor force in Russia in 2021. Coronavirus and vaccination. Emigration moods (Levada Center). Emigration moods (VtsIOM). Emigration moods (FOM). Fewer Russian companies allowing remote work. Americans love working remotely. How many people live in Russia: Rosstat announces first census results.

Demographic barometer:

·           Foreign labor force in Russia in 2021

o    The number of foreigners with a valid work permit in Russia increased by the end of 2021 to 54 thousand people; the number of foreigners with a valid work license exceeded 2 million people

o    Foreign workers who arrived in Russia in 2021 were predominantly from Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan

o    Foreign workers in Russia are predominately men - 88%, including 66% aged 18-39

o    More than half of labor migrants from abroad are still attracted to work in the capital regions, St. Petersburg standing out with 7.4% of foreigners in the labor force

o    The volume of personal remittances of international migrants sent from Russia to CIS countries increased by 12% in 2021

 

Population and Society

·          Olga Isupova. Denial of COVID-19 and resistance to measures to combat it: qualitative and quantitative research of social media communities in social networks

 

Q&A

·          Coronavirus and vaccination

·          Emigration moods (Levada Center)

·          Emigration moods (VtsIOM)

·          Emigration moods (FOM)

·          Fewer Russian companies allowing remote work

·          Americans love working remotely

 

2020 Census

·          How many people live in Russia: Rosstat announces first census results

·          Rosstat gives preliminary census data

·          Rosstat says about 147 million people permanently live in Russia

·          The population of Moscow in ten years has grown to 13 million people

·          The population of St. Petersburg has grown by 700 thousand in 11 years

·          On the experience of participating in the 2020 Russian Population Census through the State Services portal

·          All-Russian census 2020/21 in the first person

 

In the vastness of Russia

·          Natural decline in January-February 2022 was 178.7 thousand people

·          In five years, the number of orphans in Russia has decreased by a third

·          Payments to needy families with children will start on 1 May

·          Government preparing new procedure for means testing

·          28% of Russians do not expect Western sanctions to impact their financial situation

·           Golikova announces increase in the number of employees in idle time

·          State Duma approves  presidential bill on citizenship of the Russian Federation

·          Senator Klishas condemns proposal to revoke the citizenship of those receiving "cookies"

·          Highly qualified foreigners will be able to obtain indefinite residence permit in Russia

·          Government intends to update compatriot resettlement program

·          Ministry of Internal Affairs clarifies registration rules for citizens of Ukraine, the DPR and the LPR

·          State Duma proposes to limit travel of civil servants abroad

·          Starting April 1, Russia cancels COVID testing for citizens of EAEU countries entering by land

·           Murashko warns of risk of new coronavirus wave in Russia

·          Share of "stealth omicron" in Russia increases to 80%

·          Ministry of Health registers world's first nasal COVID vaccine

·           Golikova reports 24.5% decrease in incidence of tuberculosis over three years

·          31% of people with autism of working age have work experience

·          Russia introduces new procedure for assigning disability

·          Duma proposal for “import substitution” of foreign family values

·          In 2022 Russia drops from 60th to 80th place in ranking of happiest countries

 

World News

·          Since February 24, 1,892 civilians have died in Ukraine, including 153 children.

·          In North Korea, fertility declining

·          World Bank predicts increase in global poverty

·          Afghanistan issues 7.5 million electronic IDs

·          51 thousand Ukrainian refugees have received refugee status in Bulgaria

·          Austria, Czech Republic and Slovakia to provide assistance to Moldova for the reception of Ukrainian refugees

·          The United States will allocate $50 million in aid to Moldova due to the influx of refugees from Ukraine

·          Ukrainian refugees can get a one-year visa with the right to work in Japan

·          The number of migrants arriving in the EU doubled in 2021

·          Kyrgyzstan asks Russia for "migration amnesty" for Kyrgyz citizens

·          Trains from Kyrgyzstan to the capital of Russia will start running no earlier than 2023

·          40% of migrants from Uzbekistan express desire to return to their homeland due to unemployment and exchange rate instability

·          India lifts all coronavirus restrictions except masks

·          Fatigue is one of 18 pronounced covid symptoms persisting for one year

·          Mobile phones do not cause brain tumors

 

The newspapers write about…

·          Kommersant, The Washington Post and Politika on Ukrainian refugees

·          Harvard Business Review Russia on the brain drain

·          RBK on the consequences of the influx of Russians to Armenia

·           Izvestia on the specialist repatriation program

·          Rossiyskaya Gazeta and RBK on migrants at construction sites and the "strengthening" of the ruble

·           Izvestia on the demand for IT specialists

·          RBK on work experience and salary in Russia

·          RBK on the growth of the working-age population

·          Kommersant on unemployment

·          Rossiyskaya Gazeta on the need to modernize the healthcare system

·          Polit.ru on factors of morbidity and mortality from COVID-19

·          HSE Daily on the life and health of the elderly

·          Kommersant on ranking of regions in terms of well-being of pensioners

·           Nezavisimaya Gazeta on proposal to abandon Bologna education system

·           Nezavisimaya Gazeta on preparing university graduates to enter the labor market

·           Izvestia on the maternity capital

·          Forbes on the rating of happiest countries

 

Read books and magazines

·          Europe health report 2021

·          The Russian family and children's well-being

·          Monitoring of indicators of sustainable development goals (SDGs) in the CIS region 2016-2020

·          OECD labor force statistics 2011-2020

·          Global population growth and sustainable development

·          Through the pages of the journals Profilakticheskaya Meditsina (Preventive Medicine) and Rossiyskiyy Meditsinskiy Zhurnal (Russian Medical Journal)

·          Contents of the magazine Population

 

Profession: researcher

·          Demographic Sessions at the XXIII Yasinsky (April) International Scientific Conference of the National Research University Higher School of Economics

·          130 years since the birth of Avdey Ilyich Gozulov

·          A.I. Gozulov. Population censuses of the States of the globe

·          A.I. Gozulov. Dynamics and structural changes in the US population over 200 years