Research & Expertise

Current topic: Jews in post-Soviet space: new demographic data.
In the issue: A demographic portrait of the Jews of Azerbaijan, 1959-1989. Migrant families in the Russian Federation: the ethnic dimension (according to the censuses of 2002 and 2010). An ethnic map of the Stavropol region: space-time dynamics over the last half century. The 2009 census in Kazakhstan: the question about religion.

Current topic: What working-age Russians get ill with and die of.
In the issue: Cardiovascular disease in the context of the socio-economic priorities of Russia’s long-term development. The epidemiology of stroke in Russia according to the results of the territorial and population register (2009-2010). The ultimate effect of Russia’s demographic policies in the 1980s.

In the issue: Mortality from cardiovascular diseases and life expectancy in Russia. Fertility in higher-order marital unions in Russia: does a new partnership allow for the realization of the two-child ideal? The rural-urban continuum: the destiny of the notion and its link to the spatial mobility of the population. Simon Kuznets on demographic issues. Who has upset the ethnic balance in Russia?

Current topic: The demographic footprint of war.
In the issue: The reduction of infant mortality in Russia in 1940-1958. From abortion Thermidor to legislative liberalism: policy on marriage and family relations as a mirror of the history of the USSR. The dynamics of Moscow’s population size over the last 140 years.

Current topic: From abortion to contraception.
In the issue: Termination of pregnancy in the Russian Federation according to official statistics and a longitudinal survey. The medicalization of reproduction and childbirth: the struggle for control. Women’s childlessness and scenarios of their life path.

Current topic: Mortality and life expectancy in Russia: What’s new? Part two.
In the issue:The information potential of the statistics of multiple causes of death. The irreversible loss of Russia’s population as a result of drug use in 2000-2011. The consumption of alcohol on the eve of death and mortality from injuries, poisonings and other consequences of the effect of external causes. 

Current topic: Mortality and life expectancy in Russia: What’s new? Part one.
In the issue: Operational statistical information about the population: possibilities and limitations. Life expectancy in Russia and factors affecting it. Factors of mortality from external causes and ways to reduce it: interviews with experts.

Current topic: Why is a migrant not always a migrant’s friend, comrade and brother? Part two
In the issue: Re-emigration of Russian Germans from Germany to Russia: factors and the scale of the phenomenon. The “cultural memory” of Russian-speaking migrants in Germany: the impact on the formation of new identities of immigrants from the former Soviet Union. A peculiarity of Russian migration to Europe: flight of the creative class?