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Regular version of the site

"Demoscope Weekly" ## 1047 – 1048

In the issue: Migration in Russia in the first half of 2024. Net migration in the population of Russia for January-June 2024 decreased to 65 thousand people, including up to 30 thousand people in population exchange with other countries. Russia received its largest migration increase for January-June 2024, as in 2021-2023, in population exchange with Tajikistan. According to the Border Service of the FSB of Russia, the number of foreign citizens who arrived in Russia for work purposes exceeded 4.5 million people in 2023. The volume of migration within Russia decreased in January-June 2024 by 5% in terms of the number of arrivals and by 4% in terms of the number of departures. In January-June 2024, migration exchange with CIS countries increased the population of 48 of the 85 regions-subjects of the federation, and migration exchange with other regions of Russia - 23. The number of people granted temporary asylum in Russia decreased to 13.9 thousand people by mid-2024. Family studies in school: pros and cons. Half of Russians support ban on childfree propaganda, while 74% oppose introduction of tax on childlessness. Fear of contracting coronavirus has decreased to the level of fear of the flu. Let’s move for work? Not just Moscow and St. Petersburg. Top 5 best cities for a career include Yekaterinburg, Tyumen and Kazan. Sources of primary data for official statistics. Changing priorities. Meeting of the Statistical Section of the Central House of Scientists. Happy anniversary to Oksana Vyacheslavovna Sinyavskaya.

Demographic Barometer

  • Migration in Russia in the first half of 2024
    • Net migration in the population of Russia for January-June 2024 decreased to 65 thousand people, including up to 30 thousand people in population exchange with other countries
    • Russia received its largest migration increase for January-June 2024, as in 2021-2023, in population exchange with Tajikistan
    • According to the Border Service of the FSB of Russia, the number of foreign citizens who arrived in Russia for work purposes exceeded 4.5 million people in 2023
    • The volume of migration within Russia decreased in January-June 2024 by 5% in terms of the number of arrivals and by 4% in terms of the number of departures
    • In January-June 2024, migration exchange with CIS countries increased the population of 48 of the 85 regions-subjects of the federation, and migration exchange with other regions of Russia - 23
    • The number of people granted temporary asylum in Russia decreased to 13.9 thousand people by mid-2024

Q&A

  • Family studies in school: pros and cons
  • Half of Russians support ban on childfree propaganda, while 74% oppose introduction of tax on childlessness
  • Fear of contracting coronavirus has decreased to the level of fear of the flu
  • Let’s move for work?
  • Not just Moscow and St. Petersburg. Top 5 best cities for a career include Yekaterinburg, Tyumen and Kazan

In the vastness of Russia

  • Russia plans to reduce mortality in 2025
  • Age group above 80 years shows largest population growth
  • More than 1,000 Muscovites are over 100 years old
  • The share of IVF births in 2023 was 2.4% of all births
  • Bill to ban childfree propaganda is introduced to State Duma
  • "Student family" bill introduced to Duma
  • Universities may get student family support officer
  • Russian employers starting to value candidates over 50 more
  • Putin expands visa-free regime for Georgian citizens
  • Five bills against illegal migration introduced to Duma
  • State Duma adopts in second reading a bill against fictitious marriages with foreigners
  • Migrants with a fictitious certificate in the Russian language will not receive a Russian passport
  • Ministry of Internal Affairs plans to introduce illegal migrant register starting in March
  • Ministry of Internal Affairs proposes to limit period of temporary registration for all migrants to a year
  • In Primorye, migrants will be prohibited from working with work patents in 41 fields
  • Over last 20 years, the proportion of non-drinking Russians has almost doubled
  • Proposal to limit the sale of tobacco to those born after 2009
  • Survival rate of children with cancer in Russia is more than 80%

World News

  • Britain sees biggest population growth in last 50 years
  • The population of Ukraine may decrease by almost 6 million by 2051
  • Europe has partially met its personnel shortage with Ukrainian refugees
  • In Germany, almost one in two recipients of benefits does not have a German passport
  • In Finland, a proposal to revoke residence permits for security reasons
  • Tajikistan concerned about the situation with migrants in the Russian Federation
  • CDU party promoting construction of fences on EU borders
  • Harris promises to take new measures against illegal migration
  • France needs new immigration control policy
  • France and Germany call on EC to conclude agreement on illegal migration with UK
  • Hungary intends to stop illegal immigration to the EU
  • Brussels to create camps for deported migrants outside the EU
  • Migrant situation on Polish-Belarusian border is difficult
  • The number of male smokers will decrease by 26% by mid-century
  • Antimicrobial resistance causes more than one million deaths per year
  • COVID-19 is not seasonal
  • Humans have approached the biological limits of life expectancy
  • One teen in ten suffers from addiction to social networks and computer games

The newspapers write about…

  • Kommersant, Rossiyskaya Gazeta, News.ru on the approval of bills on migration and citizenship
  • Kommersant on the fight against fictitious marriages among foreigners
  • Kommersant on foreign citizenship as an aggravating circumstance
  • RBK and Expert on criticism of the tightening of migration policy
  • Rossiyskaya Gazeta on the decrease in the number of labor migrants in Russia
  • Kommersant, RBK and Novye Izvestia on the personnel shortage in the labor market
  • Kommersant on increasing fertility by 2035
  • News.ru on the "special demographic operation"
  • Izvestia on banning the adoption of Russian children
  • Novye Izvestia, Gazeta.Ru and News.ru on childlessness tax
  • Novye Izvestiya on regional law prohibiting encouragement to abort
  • Novye Izvestia on support for large families
  • RBK on new practical approaches to demographic policy in China
  • Kommersant on the risk of heart defects in children conceived using IVF
  • Rossiyskaya Gazeta on reproductive health screening
  • RBK on the impact of the tobacco ban on cancer mortality
  • Kommersant on the problem of funding hepatitis C screening
  • Novye Izvestia on the deadly Marburg virus
  • Kommersant on providing treatment for rare diseases
  • Kommersant on program to fight the spread of antibiotic resistance
  • Novye Izvestia on the benefits of sports
  • TASS on life satisfaction in rural areas
  • Rossiyskaya Gazeta on the ages of increasing health risks
  • Kommersant on myopia in young people and children
  • Nezavisimaya Gazeta on the aging of mortgage borrowers
  • Esli byt’ tochnym on the life of orphans

Read books and magazines

  • World development report 2023. Migrants, refugees, and societies
  • Moscow region dachas: population, land, economy (19th-21st centuries)
  • On the state of sanitary and epidemiological well-being of the population in the Belgorod region in 2023
  • Monitoring of indicators of sustainable development goals (SDGs) in the CIS region 2018-2022
  • Population, disabilities, incidence of COVID-19 and vaccination in the Republic of Kazakhstan
  • Through the pages of the journals Demograficheskoye Obozreniye (Demographic Review) and Rossiyskiy Meditsinskiy Zhurnal (Russian Medical Journal)
  • Contents of the journal Population and Development Review

Profession: researcher

  • Sources of primary data for official statistics. Changing priorities. Meeting of the Statistical Section of the Central House of Scientists
  • Happy anniversary to Oksana Vyacheslavovna Sinyavskaya
    • "We are more likely experiencing a demographic autumn, because the population of Russia is not yet that old" - interview with Oksana Sinyavskaya (HSE)