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Current topic: Demography and tradition

• "Divine Order" of the renewal of generations
• Reducing mortality breaks tradition without meeting much resistance
• A new civilization is a civilization of low fertility
• Freedom of procreative choice and family planning
• Autonomy of procreative behavior and pluralism of individual life paths

European demographic barometer

• Without the net immigration, the EU-27 population will begin to decrease in the years to come, whereas with the actual level of immigration, it will not happen until 2040
• The number of foreigners residing in the EU reached 32.5 million, or 6.5% of the total population of the Union
• The median age of foreign residents of the EU at the beginning of 2010 was 34.4 years, 40 years for foreign-born residents
• Among the foreign residents in the EU countries, the most numerous are the citizens of Turkey and Romania - more than 2 million people in both cases
• In 2009, the number of people having been granted citizenship in the EU-27 amounted to about 776000 people versus 699000 in 2008

Analytical articles

• Demographic agenda of the XXI century: theory and reality
• Should we expect "demographic peace"?
• The wave nature of the rise of traditionalism at the turn of XX-XXI centuries
• Peaceful co-existence of the XXI century

Take care of women!

• Europe: the incidence of sexually transmitted infections  

Russian news

• Mortality in Russia in the first half of 2011 declined by 2.8%
• The reason for the "low mortality" in Chechnya is the incorrect census data
• The North Caucasus federal district is unable to count its schools
• Migration and natural decrease are the main reasons for population decline in Kamchatka
• Russia's GDP in the first half of 2011 grew by 3.7%
• The perturbations of the global economy will not affect the labor market in Russia
• Liberal Democratic Party proposes to double the amount of child allowances
• Kaliningrad citizens were allowed to spend regional maternity capital on car purchase
• The queues for kindergartens in the Moscow city centre are to be reduced by half
• Employment Record Books will be out of use completely by 2025
• Vice Prime Minister Zhukov called Employment Record Books a “tool from the past"
• Almost half of Russians opposes the cancellation of Employment Record Books
• Official unemployment has fallen by 2.2% within two weeks
• FMS launches an experiment on implementing the fingerprints in the passport
• Migration is controlled by "ghosts from the year 1935"
• Is the introduction of a points system for migrants topical?
• Sobyanin insists on taking the migrants hanging out in Moscow under control
• The leader of "Pravoye Delo" considers interpreting legal conflicts as ethnic unacceptable
• There are more than 612000 HIV-infected in Russia
• Almost 30000 HIV-infected have been counted in the Moscow region
• Russians began to drink less
• The number of drinking-related accidents on Russian roads is reducing
• One in ten high school students in the Russian Federation is a drug user
• Checking pupils for drugs will start in October
• Ministry of Health proposes to ban smoking in cafes
• Over 3 thousand people died in the water in Russia since the beginning of the year
• Ministry of Health has no intention to introduce prescription medication sales for all kinds of medications

Eurasian news

• The population of Uzbekistan reached 28.6 million people
• The population of Ukraine decreased by 12 thousand people in June
• The population of Armenia reached 3266400 people
• The number of births decreased in Armenia
• Lukashenko has approved the program of demographic security of Belarus
• The demographic household survey has started in Azerbaijan
• The minimum cost of living in Kyrgyzstan has grown by 34% within 6 months
• Real average monthly wage in Azerbaijan grew by 1.1%
• The average pension in Azerbaijan is AZN 160
• Kindergartens will become paid in Georgia
• The Prime Minister of Ukraine instructed to provide the population with a sufficient number of kindergartens
• Parental responsibility bill has been enacted in Tajikistan
• Labor force in Transnistria has decreased by 87 thousand people within 10 years
• Unemployment benefits in Azerbaijan decreased by 7.8% in 2011
• The unemployment rate in Bishkek is 2.5%
• Moldova will sign an agreement with Russia in the field of labor migration
• Migration leads to the formation of women's villages in Armenia
• There’s a labor migrant in every fourth Kirghiz family
• The procedure of resettlement in Russia will be simplified for teachers and doctors from Kyrgyzstan
• The most active part of the Ukrainians goes to work abroad
• Ukrainian guest workers no longer return to their home country
• Over the past four years, nearly 17.7 thousand Ukrainians has returned home for permanent residence
• Ukraine needs to develop a return policy for its migrants
• Migration Service of Tajikistan helped to employ 40 Tajiks in Moscow
• Migrant workers transfer to Ukraine about 2 billion Euros annually
• There is a growing amount of remittances from Russia to Kyrgyzstan
• Azerbaijan has expelled more than 5000 foreigners since the beginning of the year
• Is poor Russian language the main difficulty of Tajik labor migrants in Russia?
• Kazakh authorities have softened the language requirements

World news

• The population of Latvia is decreasing rapidly
• China obtained the first results in the fight against gender imbalance
• The share of children population in Germany turned out to be the lowest in Europe
• Fertility in Estonia dropped by 10%
• Latvia proposes raising fertility due to tax benefits
• Latvia is about to change the system of child benefits
• State family benefits system in Latvia will be kept
• Will Europe become Muslim in 20 years?
• Food prices worldwide have risen by 33% within a year
• France and Germany stand for creation of the euro-zone economic government
• Romania can no longer borrow money to pay salaries and pensions
• Oslo topped the list of the most expensive cities by cost of living
• Youth unemployment in Germany turned out to be the lowest in the EU
• Latvia simplified the procedure to obtain a residence permit
• Wealthy citizens of the CIS are quick to obtain a residence permit in Latvia
• Latvian residents have significantly become less likely to refuse a non-citizen status
• The introduction of ID-cards in Latvia is delayed until the next year
• Italy will provide a special entry quota for Moldovan labor migrants
• European Commission allowed Spain to limit the employment of Romanian citizens
• Were economic crisis and the "death of multiculturalism” the main cause of riots in the UK?
• WHO: Viral hepatitis infected more than two billion people in the world
• Somali refugees die from hunger and measles
• WHO warns India about the return of leprosy
• Tobacco companies sued US Govt over new graphic warnings to smokers
• U.S. Appeals Court found a key part of U.S. health care reform unconstitutional
• Sleep disorders are more widespread among working women than men

Newspapers write about ...

• "Russkiy Reporter" about the 7-billionth person on Earth
• “Bloomberg” about helping Southeast Asian farmers with the use of Russian agricultural land
• "Tribuna" about the demographic situation in Russia
• “Lenta.Ru” about fertility in Germany
• “Slon.ru” about the link between fertility and risk-taking tendencies
• "Novye Izvestiya" about China’s gender imbalance
• “Independent” about sterilization in India
• "Rossiyskaya Gazeta" about multiculturalism
• "Argumenty i Fakty", "Novye Izvestiya", "Moscow News" and “Time” about London riots
• "Politika" about Eurabia
• "Rossiyskaya Gazeta" about "closing" Spanish labor market for Romanians
• "Echo" about the problems of migration from Azerbaijan to Ukraine
• "Moscow News" about the migration policy in Russia
• "Novye Izvestiya" about the alternative concept of migration policy
• "Kommersant" about amendments to migration registration of highly skilled migrants
• "Vecherniy Bishkek" about the simplified procedure to obtain citizenship for Kyrgyzstan citizens
• “Slovo.kg” about the suspension of the program of resettlement of compatriots in Kyrgyzstan
• "Nezavisimaya Gazeta" about children of migrants in Russian schools
• "Rossiyskaya Gazeta" and "Vzglyad" about migrants and the Russian language
• "Izvestiya" about the problems of the visa regime between Russia and Finland
• "Novye Izvestiya" about the costs of providing political asylum in the U.S.
• “Ha'aretz” about submissive Israeli Russians
• "Vecherniy Bishkek" about the survey of parents of migrants in Kyrgyzstan
• "Express-K" about the expulsion of unregistered migrants from Tashkent
• “Regnum” about the fight against street hawking in Erevan
• “Geopolitika” about the possibility of Chinese expansion in the Far East
• "RBC Daily” about the "Stolypin approach" to development of Siberia
• "Vedomosti" about the threat of self-perpetuation of poverty in Russia
• "Rossiyskaya Gazeta - Weekly" about social housing in Latin America
• "Kommersant-Dengi" about unemployment in Russia
• "Tribuna" about the possible cancellation of workbooks
• “Slon.ru” about the age of workers in some sectors of the economy
• “Slon.ru” about alcohol consumption in Russia
• “Zerkalo.az” about suicides
• “Paruskg.info” about the healthcare system in Tajikistan
• “Zerkalo.az” about the impending demographic survey in Azerbaijan
• “La Repubblica” about the genetics of centenarians
• "Vedomosti" about expenses on children
• "Moskovskiy Komsomolets" about multiculturalism, fetishism and fascism

Recent publications

• Preliminary results of National Population Census 2010
• Key figures on Europe - 2011 edition
• Healthcare systems and communicable diseases
• Regions of Russia: inequality, crisis, modernization
• Regional development and regional policy in Russia in the transition period
• Through the pages of magazines "Healthcare in the Russian Federation" and “SPERO”
• Contents of the journal “International Journal of Law, Policy and the Family”

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