Research & Expertise

Current topic: The abortion ban: refresh your memory.
In the issue: A sociological portrait of infanticide in the United States at the turn of the 21st century: victims and perpetrators. Studying the opinions of women’s views on the causes of abortion. Socio-economic factors of children’s health in Russia. Russians’ spending on drugs: what has changed during the crisis?

Most migrants coming to Russia change occupations, go without healthcare and spend their free time with their compatriots.

Current topic: Suicide in Russia.
In the issue:  Territorial features of suicide prevalence in the Russian Federation. Alcohol and suicide in Russia, Ukraine and Belarus: a comparative analysis of trends. Suicide in the polar regions.

In the issue: The modest results of the pronatalist policy against the background of long-term evolution of fertility in Russia. Mortality in Moscow and other megacities of the world: similarities and differences. Influence of demographic transformation in the system of private intergenerational transfers. Rejuvenation of the motherhood in Dagestan: a tendency or an artefact? Tatars of the Ryazan region in the XX century: geography of settlement, population dynamics, migration trends. The use of population registers for recording and analysis of cohabitation.

Current topic: Youth migration in Russia
In the issue: Student migration in the North Caucasus: causes, geography and potential problems. On the impact of migration on the age structure of the population in the regions, cities and districts of Russia. The age structure of the population of Russia and its impact on internal migration. A comparative analysis of the dynamics of the migration increase among the elderly population of the Samara region.

Current topic: Family policy in developed countries.
In the issue: Employment of mothers in the first years of a child’s life: a review of studies of its impact on children’s development. The birth of a child as a factor in the income security of women. How large is Russia’s “motherhood penalty”?. Dynamics of total income and subjective perception of the material condition of Russian women in the first years after a child’s birth. Family policy in connection with fertility and the wellbeing of families with children. A data analysis by country.

Current topic: The population of centers and remote places in Russia, Ukraine and Belarus.
In the issue: Centers and peripheries in the Baltic countries and regions of northwest Russia: Population dynamics in the 2000s. Depopulation processes in the Pskov region in the context of the polarization of the population of northwestern Russia. Distinctive features of migratory processes in the city of Kiev and the metropolitan area. Ethnodemographic transformation in the center-periphery structure of the Rostov region (post-Soviet trends). George Soros on how to address the problem of refugees in the European Union.

Current topic: The population of Russia against the background of the OECD and BRICS.
In the issue: The population explosion, the aging population and labor-saving technologies: their interaction in the 21st century. Poverty and inequality in the BRICS countries: Russian specificity. The cancellation of China’s one-child policy. On pressing problems of improving work in statistics. The middle class of BRICS countries as a driving force of new global economic growth.