"Demoscope Weekly" ## 899 - 900
In the issue:
Russian demographic barometer. Women's health care during pandemic according to a VTsIOM survey. Major review confirms rise in stillbirths in a number of countries due to COVID-19 pandemic. Head of Moscow City Center for AIDS Prevention and Control: "HIV statistics in Russia are inflated". Millions of women do not have right to control their own body.
Russian demographic barometer
· Crime in Russia, 2020
o In 2020, the number of crimes registered in Russia increased by 1.0%, while the number of deaths from criminal assaults decreased by 5.4%
o In 2020, the number of crimes against the person decreased by 5.1%, and against property - increased by 4.1%
o The number of deaths in road accidents decreased in 2020 by 5%, the number of injured - by 13%
o In 2020, 852.5 thousand perpetrators of crimes were identified
o In 2020, the number of court convictions entering into force decreased to 531 thousand people
o As of March 1, 2021, there were 479.4 thousand people in places of detention
Take care of women
· Women's health care during pandemic according to a VTsIOM survey
· Major review confirms rise in stillbirths in a number of countries due to COVID-19 pandemic
· Head of Moscow City Center for AIDS Prevention and Control: "HIV statistics in Russia are inflated"
· Millions of women do not have right to control their own body
In the vastness of Russia
· Average life expectancy in Russia by 2030 should reach 78 years
· Russia will introduce new benefits to stimulate fertility
· Low-income pregnant women to receive monthly allowance
· Putin proposes to pay families with schoolchildren 10 thousand rubles
· Rosstat announces poverty reduction in 2020
· About 3% of Russians retire later than they are entitled to
· Over 11 million families have received maternity capital
· Mortgage benefits for large families will be expanded
· One in five adults admits to living off parents
· System of long-term care will create up to 500,000 jobs
· Have five times more scientists started leaving the country since 2012?
· Moskalkova proposes issuing permanent residence permit to foreigners remaining in Russia during pandemic
· Ministry of Internal Affairs will extend period of stay for foreigners in Russia illegally
· Not enough migrants for Russia’s ambitious plans?
· Russia must prepare for return to pre-pandemic migration levels
· More than 75% of coronavirus patients on mechanical ventilation in Russia have died
· Ministry of Health expects formation of herd immunity to COVID by August
· More than 70% of HIV patients in Russia receive antiretroviral therapy
· By 2025, Russia will switch to new classification of diseases
· The number of children with disabilities is growing in Russia
· Medical histories of Russians will be kept in a single database
· Russia has Europe’s largest incarceration rate
· A unified population register will appear in Russia
· Citizens will be automatically registered on "State Services" portal at birth
World News
· South Korea has world’s lowest birth rate
· In Belarus, the pace of population decline has accelerated
· Almost 2,000 fewer children were born in Moldova in 2020 than in 2019
· The number of deaths from COVID-19 in the world has exceeded 3 million
· The number of victims of COVID-19 in Europe has exceeded one million
· Will a pandemic in Germany cause a fivefold increase in divorce rates?
· Does having a daughter increase the likelihood of divorce?
· Record number of migrant children admitted to U.S. in March
· One migrant in seven arriving in Italy is a minor
· In Tajikistan, figures from the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation for illegal immigrants are considered to be inflated
· By 2050 will more than 150 million people become migrants due to global warming?
· WHO extends coronavirus state of emergency by three months
· Scientists disprove association of severe disease with British strain SARS-CoV-2
· WHO recommends not giving two injections of different vaccines against coronavirus
· New Zealand aims to completely ban tobacco by 2025
The newspapers write about…
· Kommersant and Novye Izvestia on the President's message to the Federal Assembly
· The New York Times and Le Monde on covid-19 mortality statistics
· The New Times on vaccination
· Le Figaro on herd immunity in the UK
· Daily Mail on re-infection with coronavirus
· Kommersant on decreased detection of HIV and tuberculosis
· Novaya Gazeta on infant mortality
· Kommersant on the benefits of hypochondria
· Moskovsky Komsomolets-Latvia on the relationship between coronavirus and fertility
· Izvestia on the number of young workers
· Novye Izvestia on the need for migrants
· Izvestia and Kommersant on the shortage of labor migrants
· Sobytiya on ethnicity in population censuses
· Novaya Gazeta on losses during the Red Terror
Read books and magazines
· Tuberculosis surveillance and monitoring in Europe 2021.2019 data
· Monitoring SDG indicators in the CIS region 2016-2019
· A brief overview of the legislation and law enforcement practices of some foreign countries regarding the management of migration flows and immigration control
· Collection of statistical materials on diseases of the circulatory system
· Population of Ukraine for 2019
· Through the pages of the journals Sotsiologicheskiye Issledovaniya (Sociological Research) and Uroven zhizni naseleniya regionov Rossia (Living Standards of the Population of Russia’s Regions)
· Contents of the journal Demography
Profession: researcher
· Demographic sessions at the XXII April International Scientific Conference of the Higher School of Economics
· Congratulations to Leonid Leonidovich Rybakovsky on his 90th birthday!