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Current topic: Healthy life expectancy in Russia 

• Healthy life expectancy as an integral feature of public health
• Data sources for calculating the healthy life expectancy in Russia
• Proportion of the unhealthy at different ages on subjective assessments
• Healthy life expectancy of Russian men and women
• Women live longer, but rate their health worse than men do

European demographic barometer 

• In the European Union life expectancy at birth over the past half-century increased by 10 years
• Differences in life expectancy between the countries of the EU-27 reduce, but remain significant
• Increase in life expectancy in 1993-2009 was mainly due to older age groups
• In the European Union infant mortality rate between 1993 and 2009 declined by half, from 8.7 ‰ to 4.3 ‰
• In the EU-27 healthy life expectancy at birth in 2009 amounted to 62 years for women and 61 years for men

Analytical articles 

• Public health and the current economic crisis
• Invalids and the society: twenty years later
• The burden of disease in the European Region
• Measures aimed at reducing mortality have been taken. What are the results?
• Behavioral risk factors at older ages: a comparative analysis of the situation in Russia and the European countries
• Women and the smoking epidemic: turning the tide

Take care of women! 

• Underestimation of the stillbirth issue
• New Hungarian Constitution is a threat to reproductive rights

Russian news 

• Ministry of Health intends to ensure the stabilization of the country's population
• German demographers have called Russia a vanishing world power
• The number of megacities in Russia decreased
• Businessmen suggested raising the retirement age for women for 8 years
• Profile Committee of the Federation Council has spoken against raising the retirement age
• State Duma deputies oppose raising the retirement age in Russia
• Proportion of the poor in Russia in 2010 decreased to 13.1%
• Labor pensions will be indexed again from 1 August
• Nearly 4.5 million Russians joined the retirement co-financing program
• State Duma suggests offering maternity capital to foreign women
• Medvedev suggests using maternity capital on mothers' education
• United Russia suggests increasing the duration of the benefit for the third child
• The State Duma will fight fictitious marriages
• Will most orphans in the country find new families within the period of 3 to 5 years?
• Prokhorov insists on a complete revision of the Labor Code
• A list of documents to determine the children's Russian citizenship has been approved
• There should be no quotas for foreign migrant workers in the future
• Only 5% of migrant workers count on help from Russians
• FMS Press Secretary fired for racist remarks
• Onishchenko has approved sanitary regulations for HIV prevention in Russia
• The number of Russian children born with HIV infection decreased more than twice within 7 years
• There are 2-2.5 million drug users in Russia
• Nearly 15% of Russians are ready to try drugs on occasion
• Government will develop a methodology for testing college students on drug use
• Mironov suggests selling alcohol only in specialized stores
• Chambers for smokers and non-smokers will be installed in Russian prisons
• Nearly 13 million Russians are not vaccinated against hepatitis B
• Hemophilia patients will be treated free of charge
• Traffic Police intends to reduce road mortality by 1.5 times in 2012
• Nearly half of the children in Russia are born sick
• Medvedev expressed disappointment with the workers' protection situation

Eurasian news  

• Azerbaijan's population reached 9.138 million people
• Population growth is observed in Kyrgyzstan
• Ukraine has one millionaire city fewer
• The fertility has fallen in Belarus
• Out-of-wedlock births in Azerbaijan are often caused by lack of documents for marriage
• There may be a poverty rise in Armenia, Georgia, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova and Tajikistan
• Every third Georgian citizen lives in abject poverty
• In 3 to 5 years Ukraine's economy will grow by 8-10% per year
• Will Belarus reach the level of the most developed European countries in 5 years?
• Joint pension system in Azerbaijan will require 400 million manats
• Kyrgyzstan will increase salaries for social workers from 1 May
• Ukraine will not join the Customs Union
• Agreement on free trade zone in the CIS will be signed on 19 May in Belarus
• The unemployment benefit in Azerbaijan decreased by 1.7% in 2011
• According to unofficial data, the unemployment rate in Kyrgyzstan is above 20%
• Are Georgian "neutral passports" not attracting Ossetians and Abkhazians?
• Yanukovych has approved an action plan to liberalize the visa regime with EU
• Nearly 270 thousand labor migrants from Kyrgyzstan received Russian citizenship
• 80% of migrants in Azerbaijan are Azeri from neighboring countries
• 95% of illegals in Ukraine are Russians
• Lukashenko has demanded a report on the fight against illegal migration
• Azerbaijan expelled 601 foreigners in March
• Turkmenistan joined the WHO convention on tobacco control
• More than 1 million children will be vaccinated from polio in Tajikistan
• There are more than 200 hemophilia patients in Armenia

World news 

• The rate of global population growth will continue to decline
• Over the past 10 years white Americans have become a minority in many major cities
• Over the past 50 years life expectancy in the EU increased by about 10 years
• Population aging and emigration are the main demographic problems in Estonia
• Thailand bans foreign men over 50 marrying local women
• Is raising the retirement age in Lithuania inevitable?
• The World Bank estimated the impact of wars on poverty
• UN World Food Program needs extra money to help Koreans
• Latvians working in the EU will be freed from paying some taxes
• 120000 unemployed in Latvia do not have any income
• Is unemployment killing men?
• Syrian president gave citizenship to the local Kurds
• Italy will allow the refugees from Lampedusa to reach Europe
• Bavaria has promised to close the border for Tunisian refugees
• 78% of Latvians do not wish to accept refugees
• France has banned hijab in public places
• 500000 Americans die every year from smoking-related diseases
• More than 7.2 thousand babies every day are stillborn
• Alcohol linked to cancer in 10% of Western European men
• The death toll in the Japanese earthquake came close to 14 thousand people
• The number of cholera epidemic victims in Haiti reached 4.7 thousand people
• Obama may reduce healthcare financing of the indigent and the elderly
• France does not want to recognize surrogacy legitimate
• Latvia offered paying IVF at the expense of the state
• Britons will be screened for genetic diseases before conceiving a child
• All the existing languages on Earth evolved from a single origin

Newspapers write about ... 

• "NezavisimayaGazeta" about the speech of the Prime Minister at the medical forum
• "Dengi" about the healthcare reform budget
• "Svpressa.ru" about AIDS in Russia
• "HSE News Portal" about the demographic problems in Russia
• "RossiyskayaGazeta" about the new stage of population policy
• "Deutsche Welle" about the population policy in Russia
• "Izvestia.com.ua" about child benefits in Ukraine
• "The Guardian" about additional votes in the elections for Hungarian mothers
• "Trud-7" about the rural population of Russia
• "Slovo.kg" about the population of Kyrgyzstan
• "Chinapro.ru" about aging in China
• "Gazeta.ru" about demography and migration in Russia
• "Kommersant", "Novaya Gazeta" and "Moscow News" about the new concept of migration policy
• "Vecherniy Bishkek" about the change of Russian immigration legislation as seen by donor countries
• "BFM.RU" about remittances of migrants
• "Novaya Gazeta" about North African refugees in Europe
• "NovyeIzvestiya" about London as the capital of political emigration
• "RossiyskayaGazeta" about the problems of migration of Russian compatriots
• "Vedomosti" about internal migration in Russia
• "Moscow News" about migration in Moscow
• "Kommersant" about the dismissal of Konstantin Poltoranin
• "Vedomosti" about the "true Finns"
• "Polit.ru" about the ThiloSarrazin's book
• "Vedomosti" and «BBCRussian.com» about tolerance and intolerance
• "Delfi.lt" about the Russian language in Lithuania
• "Opec.ru" about the tax price of the social policy
• "Vedomosti" about Russians' welfare
• "Expert" about incomes and consumption
• "Expert" about Russian education and its expenses
• "Opec.ru" about the causes of low strike activity in Russia
• "Slon.ru" about the monotowns issue
• "NovyeIzvestiya" about subsidies for young specialists
• "Berliner Zeitung" about housework
• "Chaskor.ru" about the views of Kapitsa on demography and science
• "MeditsinskayaGazeta" about the consequences of the Chernobyl accident
• "Komsomolskaya Pravda" about the results of the 2010 population census in Russia
• "Vzglyad" about the reduction of the number of millionaire cities in Russia
• "Odnako" about the census in the Baltic countries

Interactive poll 

• Do we need kindergartens? Poll results

Recent polls 

• Russians about their health and treatment
• Therapists are the closest to the people
• Unemployment and how to fight it

Correspondence with readers 

• Can life expectancy grow so quickly?

Recent publications 

• Global strategy to reduce the hazardous alcohol abuse
• Azerbaijan: the health care system overview
• Providing medical assistance to foreign citizens and persons without citizenship in the Russian Federation
• Geography of the World Development
• Population issues in the mirror of history
• Through the pages of magazines "Healthcare in the Russian Federation" and "Social Sciences and Modernity"
• Contents of the journal «Population & Societes»

Profession: Researcher 

• Gender aspects of migration policy. International Conference
• 120 years since the birth of J.S. Ulitsky (1891-1956)
• Leonid Rybakovsky is 80

Golden fund of national demography 

• J.S. Ulitsky. Demographic concept of generation

Students' Page 

• Causes of deathandlife expectancy in Russiaand European countries
• About the Masters Program in Demography

New ads 

1. International scientific conference "Contemporary Global Demographic Problems: Migrations and Migration policy». Moscow, Russia. 29-30 November 2011. 
2. PopFest 2011, the annual Population Studies postgraduate conference. Groningen, the Netherlands. 27-29 September 2011.