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Regular version of the site

"Demoscope Weekly" ## 1011 – 1012

In the issue: Population of CIS countries, 2022. Traditional values, modern goals. Sex in our lives. Attitude towards abortion. The labor market in 2023: Superjob trends and forecasts. Level of inclusion of people with disabilities in Russia. 60th anniversary of the birth of Alexander Albertovich Sagradov. Archive of issues of the journal "SPERO. Social policy: expertise, recommendations, reviews" (2004 - 2012).

Demographic Barometer

·          Population of CIS countries, 2022

o   The population of the CIS countries at the beginning of 2022 was, according to the CIS Interstate Statistical Committee, 287 million people

o   Children under the age of 15 make up from 15% of the population of Ukraine to 36% of the population of Tajikistan, elderly people 65 years of age and older - from 3% in Tajikistan to 18% in Ukraine

o   Total fertility in the CIS countries varies by more than 2.5 times

o   Life expectancy at birth is from 70 to 76 years in CIS countries

o   In recent years, infant mortality in CIS countries has varied from 2‰ to 27‰

Q&A

·         Traditional values, modern goals

·         Sex in our lives

·         Attitude towards abortion

·         The labor market in 2023: Superjob trends and forecasts

·         Level of inclusion of people with disabilities in Russia

 

In the vastness of Russia

·         By the end of 2023, average life expectancy in Russia will be about 74 years

·          Golikova  announces steady downward trend in mortality in Russia

·         Ministry of Labor reports increase in the number of large families

·         Total fertility rate of third and subsequent children over past 6 years has increased by 12%

·         State allocates almost 90 billion rubles for payment of unified child benefit

·         Russia doesn’t need to create new agency for family issues in Russia

·         From 2024, minimum wage will increase by 18.5%

·         Ministry of Defense proposes changing health requirements for military service

·         Have about 40% of recent émigrés returned to Russia?

·         Proposal to fingerprint foreigners when entering Russia

·         Ministry of Internal Affairs proposes to introduce a controlled stay regime for illegal migrants

·         Over last 35 years, the number of abortions in Russia has decreased by 14 times

·         Lipetsk region joins ban on abortions in private clinics

·          Matvienko  speaks out against abortion restrictions in private clinics

·         Russia will begin to conduct mandatory medical examinations of all working citizens

·         81% of men and 72% of women say their sex life is important

 

World News

·         WHO European Region has fastest growing HIV epidemic in the world

·         New Zealand to lift ban on cigarette sales to youth

·         Children in China suffering en masse from unknown type of pneumonia

·         On the heels of China, an outbreak of SARS in France

·         Middle Eastern migrants flee Finnish border after its closure

·         Norway thinking about closing checkpoints on Russian border

·         Estonia warns travelers to Russia about possible border closure

·         Lithuania sees no reason to close border with Russia

·         A significant portion of Ukrainians who left for the West may not return to their homeland

·         Germany may cancel benefits for future migrants from Ukraine

 

The newspapers write about…

·          Kommersant  and Novye Izvestia on the upcoming Year of the Family

·          Esli  byt’ tochnym and Kommersant on proposal to ban abortions and its consequences

·          Kommersant  on opponents of abortion ban in Russia

·         News.ru on proposal to pay women 200 thousand rubles for birth of a child

·         News.ru on a tax on childlessness

·         RBK and Forbes on recognizing the LGBT movement as extremist

·          Novye  Izvestia on the price of condoms

·          Kommersant  and Esli byt’ tochnym on the fight against HIV

·          Esli  byt’ tochnym and Kommersant on ranking of regions by HIV prevalence

·          Novye  Izvestia and Kommersant on the shortage of personnel in the labor market and the fight against it

·          Izvestia  on the demand for personnel of pre-retirement age

·          Esli  byt’ tochnym on the gender pay gap

·          Rossiyskaya  Gazeta on the rules for obtaining and losing Russian citizenship

·          Novye  Izvestia and Rossiyskaya Gazeta on a regime of controlled stay of illegal migrants

·          Kommersant  on a proposal to forbid migrants to express political views

·          Novye  Izvestia on the shortage of migrant drivers

·          Novye  Izvestia and RBK on the closure of checkpoints on Finnish-Russian border

·         RBK and Izvestia on the maternity capital, allowances and benefits for families with children

·          Kommersant  and Novye Izvestia on the increase in divorce rates for the sake of receiving social benefits for families with children

·         Expert and Kommersant on living alone

·          Novye  Izvestia on variations in pension sizes in Russian regions

·          Kommersant  on supporting artificial intelligence in healthcare

·          Kommersant  on the growth of respiratory diseases in China

·          Novye  Izvestia on reproductive health monitoring

·          Novye  Izvestia on the man’s role in providing for the family

·          Novye  Izvestia on reducing the list of diseases that are contraindications for military service

·          Kommersant  on the image of a doctor through the eyes of the doctors themselves

 

Read books and magazines

·         2022 United Nations Demographic Yearbook

·         Global Tuberculosis Report 2023

·         HIV/AIDS surveillance in Europe 2023. 2022 data

·         Migration of the population of the Republic of Kazakhstan

·         Monitoring indicators of the quality of life of the population in the countries of the Commonwealth of Independent States 2019-2022

·         Through the pages of the magazines Naseleniya i Ekonomika (Population and Economics) and Ekonomika i Organizatsiya Promyshlennovo Proizvodstva (EKO) (Economics and Organization of Industrial Production (ECO))

·         Contents of the journal Population & Societies

 

Profession: researcher

·         60th anniversary of the birth of Alexander Albertovich Sagradov

 

New in the reading room

·         Archive of issues of the journal "SPERO. Social policy: expertise, recommendations, reviews" (2004 - 2012)