"Demoscope Weekly" ## 945 - 946
In the issue:
Migration of Ukrainians to the European Union, 2008-2020. The share of medicines in the Russian consumer basket has increased. Attitudes towards the Russian Orthodox Church and the Patriarch. How much money do Russians need to be happy? British women asked about menopause. Denial of COVID-19 and resistance to measures to combat it: qualitative and quantitative research of communities in social networks.
Demographic barometer
· Migration of Ukrainians to the European Union, 2008-2020
o As of December 31, 2020, 1,347,000 Ukrainians had valid residence permits in the EU-27 countries, including 1,041,000 for a period of 12 months or more
o As of December 31, 2020, 37% of all valid EU-27 residence permits in Poland were issued to Ukrainians, 17% in Italy, 12% in the Czech Republic
o Over 200,000 Ukrainians received citizenship of one of the EU-27 countries in 2008-2020
o The number of first-time EU-27 residence permits issued to citizens of Ukraine increased by more than 5 times in 2008-2020, totaling about 4.9 million
o Most of the initial residence permits were issued to Ukrainians in Poland - 3.8 million in 2008-2020
o The largest number of asylum applications in EU-27 countries were filed by citizens of Ukraine in 2015 - about 22 thousand
· Olga Isupova. Denial of COVID-19 and resistance to measures to combat it: qualitative and quantitative research of communities in social networks
· The share of medicines in the Russian consumer basket has increased
· Attitudes towards the Russian Orthodox Church and the Patriarch
· How much money do Russians need to be happy?
· British women asked about menopause
· The population of Yakutia has increased by 30 thousand people over the past two years
· Rosstat has new head
· Russia begins paying benefits to families with children aged 8 to 17
· The number of free places in universities for Russians will remain unchanged
· Shrinking demand for labor in Russia
· 3.1 million unemployed in Russia
· Demand for flights within Russia falls by a third
· FSB border service publishes statistics on the departure of Russians abroad in the first quarter
· Medvedev announces law on entry and stay of migrants in Russia
· Proposal to fast-track inclusion of Donbass residents in compatriot resettlement program
· Russia has paid out over 70 million rubles to Ukrainian pensioners and state employees
· VEB experts consider labor migration from Central Asia beneficial for the Russian economy
· More than 100,000 people now sick with COVID-19 in Russia
· Covid was main cause of more than 30 thousand deaths in Russia in March
· Share of "stealth-omicron" in Russia increases to 80%
· About 6% of the population of Russia suffer from diabetes
· Russia steps up measures to prevent cholera
· Putin signs law expanding rights of donors
· Excess mortality from covid in the world in 2020-2021 was 14.9 million
· UN reports 3,496 civilian deaths since start of 'special operation' in Ukraine
· The number of children in Japan is at all-time low
· Is the world facing the worst famine since World War II?
· Unemployment rate in China reaches 5.8%
· European Commission intends to change procedure for obtaining Schengen visas
· Does the US plan to facilitate entry for certain categories of Russians?
· Japan about to open up to foreign tourists
· The number of internally displaced persons in Ukraine has exceeded eight million
· Iran to conduct census of Afghan immigrants
· The number of cases of covid in the world in April is half that in March
· Armenia considers WHO statistics on deaths from COVID-19 in the country overestimated
· The prevalence of obesity in the European Region continues to rise
· Meduza* on emigration from Russia
· RBK on foreign trips of Russians
· Nezavisimaya Gazeta on the desire of the United States to attract the best Russian minds
· RBK on the benefits of labor migration in Russia
· RIA Novosti and Rossiyskaya Gazeta on the problems of displaced persons from Ukraine in Russia
· Russkaya sluzhba BBC on the statistics of deaths due to coronavirus
· The Washington Post on another coronavirus mutation
· RBK on lack of medicines for treatment of HIV
· RBK on labor market sanctions risks
· Izvestia on raising the minimum wage
· Nezavisimaya Gazeta on the new head of Rosstat and the problems of Russian statistics
· Ilta-Sanomat on retirement age in different countries
· RBK on telegony
· World Migration Report 2022
· World Population Policies 2021: Policies Related to Fertility
· Youth in the Commonwealth of Independent States: A Statistical Portrait
· Population and Demographic Processes 2020
· Problems of access to sexual and reproductive health and HIV services for internal migrants in Central Asian countries and international migrants from Central Asian countries in Russia, Kazakhstan and Turkey in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic
· Through the pages of the journals Sotsiologicheskie Issledovaniya (Sociological Research) and Vestnik MGU. Seriya 5. Geografiya (Bulletin of Moscow State University. Series 5. Geography)
· Contents of the journal "Population and Development Review"
· Happy 65th birthday to Vladimir Mikhailovich Shkolnikov
* Издание Meduza включено Минюстом в список СМИ, выполняющих функции иностранного агента.