The final data for 2018 point simultaneously to the continued decline in the birth rate and growth in families having many children: the number of regions where the rate of birth of the third child and any subsequent one soared amid the decline in the birth rate of the first and second child has...

This section analyzes the main new trends that became visible in the North Caucasus during the past year. Bearing in mind the specific features of this region of the Russian Federation, it is important that our analyst should not be confined to examining only the changes that occurred in the...

The necessity to optimize the federal budget expenditure targets for 2015, as declared by Russia's authorities, has put to the fore, among other things, also the issue of government target programs for the development of Russian regions, including the regions of the North Caucasus, and the...

In the wake of the birth rate stabilization in the country as a whole, the majority of regions demonstrated a trend to reduce the birth rate of the first child and to increase the birth rate of third and subsequent children. The stability of this trend means a simultaneous increase in...

In mid-May, Russia's authorities created a new bureaucratic structure – the North Caucasus Development Ministry. The move came as no surprise: whenever a centralized system of governance is unable to resolve one or other issue, it resorts to creating a new administrative body vested with the...

In 2017, the social and economic development of the North Caucasian regions was proceeding amid introduction by the federal center of some new forms of regional economic support. A change in economic policy priorities in the North Caucasus was taking place amid sluggishness of the health resort...

The article contains a concise review of the research related to the impact of economic crises and pandemics on fertility in developed countries. The significance of the outcome of these studies is under consideration designed to forecast changes in fertility resulted from the pandemic in...

The most pressing issues faced by the regions of the North Caucasus in 2020 were associated with the COVID-19 pandemic. In the North Caucasian Republics, particular aspects of the social organization and economic structure of these subjects of the Russian Federation had an impact on the course...

This section deals with a brief evaluation of developments in the regions of North Caucasus in 2018 as they can be regarded as indicators of significant changes in that part of the country. Such developments include personnel changes in the government of Dagestan where for the first time in the...

The paper deals with a problem regularly faced by survey studies of patriarchal communities, i.e. communities with a high authority of senior generations and a low level of women's autonomy. In such communities, female respondents might give untruthful answers to survey questions in order to fit...