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Current topic: Post-Soviet Russia: from demographic superpower to the core of the crisis

• A bit of history
• Fertility decline after the collapse of the Soviet Union
• Mothers getting older, children becoming fewer
• High mortality
• Immigration as a resource for Russia
• Outlook: Aging and the growth of regional differences

Russian demographic barometer

Demographic outcome of the first half of 2011 (Part I)

• In the first half of 2011, a decrease in Russia's population accelerated a bit, but still remains low at less than 0.1% per year
• Population growth rate of Russian regions in 2010 ranged from -1.6% to + 2.7%
• The number of villages and townships continues to decrease
• The natural loss of population decline in the first half of 2011 continued to decrease, so did net migration
• The number of births began to decline, the birth rate in the first half of 2011 reduced to 11,9 ‰
• In January-June 2011, there were more marriages and more divorces

Analytical articles

• Demographic changes in Germany and the new territorial structure of aging
• "Friendship of peoples" in the USSR: a national project or an example of spontaneous ethnic self-organization?
• Comparative analysis of the processes of social mobility in the Soviet Union and contemporary Russia
• Social resources of the population in Russia and Europe: A comparative analysis

Recent polls

• Modernization of the family: attitudes of “the people XXI”

Russian news

• The number of births and deaths in 2011declined
• Moscow authorities are observing an increase in resident population of the capital
• Tatarstan became the only region in the Volga Federal District with a growing fertility
• Mortality in Moscow in July decreased by 1.6 times in comparison with the last year's period of smog
• Citizens of St. Petersburg get married and divorced more often in 2011
• Ministry of Education states an increase in the number of first-graders and a decrease in the number of students
• Residents of the "Big Moscow" will be Muscovites in 2012
• Experts propose to raise the retirement age in Russia to 63 years
• The poorest class in Russia is represented by families with children
• 3 million families received maternity capital certificates
• Velikiy Novgorod authorities will pay first-born child benefits not only to residents, but also to migrants
• Some families will be offered money instead of places in kindergartens
• About 390 thousand children will go to kindergartens in Moscow in 2011
• Moscow authorities will create 1.5 thousand places in kindergartens for non-resident children
• Putin promises a governmental support to organizations of disabled persons
• Liberal Democratic Party suggests a prohibition on denationalization of Russian children under 18
• More than 130 billion roubles will be invested in the development of the border infrastructure in Russia
• Russian labor market is overflown with immigrants with low professional skills
• Illegal migrants are fleeing from Russia because of unemployment
• In Russia you can buy a slave for $ 300
• Russian Orthodox Church proposes to offer jobs to migrants and a “start in life” to skinheads
• Sobyanin believes educating young people is one of the main measures to combat extremism
• It will be impossible to avoid national policy and migration issues during the Duma elections
• Three-quarters of Russians support the draft law "On protection of public health from the consequences of tobacco consumption"
• The number of alcohol-related traffic accidents in Russia decreased
• More than 50% of mothers who intend to abandon the baby, change their decision thanks to preventive work
• In Russia there are 1.1 thousand sign-language interpreters which is almost 7 times less than needed
• Russian hospitals ran out of money for expensive treatment
• Ministry of Health will allocate additional quota for high-tech treatment
• The number of plane crashes doubled this year

Eurasian news

• During 20 years of independence, Ukraine's population declined by 6.27 million
• The population of Belarus continues to decline
• Belarus is struggling with depopulation
• Odessa may lose the status of a million-plus city
• Ukraine will hold a population census in 2012
• There are still more dead than born in Transnistria
• Nearly 93 thousand children in Kyrgyzstan will go to first class in 2011
• Ukraine will have fewer schools due to lack of pupils
• The law on pension reform in Ukraine will be specified
• Azarov will do his best to get the pension reform approved
• The share of social expenses in the CIS countries ranges from 2.9 to 13.3%
• Every fifth citizen of Moldova lives below the poverty line
• In January-June revenues per capita in Belarus amounted to a little more than 1.1 million roubles
• Birth of a second child may lead Ukrainian families to poverty
• The average salary in Ukraine grew by 16%
• The basic pension in Kyrgyzstan increases from October 1
• The number of unemployed in Belarus in July decreased by 0.4%
• The number of unemployed in Moldova in the 2nd quarter of 2011 amounted to 82.6 thousand people
• Kazakhstan will invest more than 50 billion tenge in the employment program development
• The number of Ukrainians proud of their nationality increased by a quarter over the last 5 years
• Yanukovich suggested equalizing foreign Ukrainians and citizens of the country
• Kyrgyzstan is about to introduce a visa-free regime for citizens from countries with high income
• There’s a risk of mass migration of working-age population from Belarus
• A campaign against emigration "I'm staying!" begins in Kyrgyzstan
• More than 15% of drug users in Minsk are HIV-positive
• Germany helps Tajikistan to combat tuberculosis
• Uzbekistan banned the sale of alcohol and tobacco to persons under 20
• Every third IVF attempt in Belarus is planned to be free of charge

World news

• The birth date of the 7 billionth inhabitant of Earth has been set for October 31
• The natural loss of population in Latvia in July amounted to 470 persons
• In 25 generations, the female population of Hong Kong will shrink from 3.75 million to one woman
• Joe Biden receives criticism for his remarks about China's One-Child Policy
• Italy may partially abandon the pension reform
• In Australia, the statistically average length of marriage is a little over eight years
• 400 thousand children risk death from starvation in Somalia
• The world’s best and worst cities have been announced
• The number of working pensioners in Germany increased
• Obama promised to employ millions of Americans
• The unemployment rate in Lithuania is 15.6%
• 12 million people in the world have no citizenship
• Every 20th young Estonian resident has no Estonian citizenship
• 133 persons rejected Latvian citizenship this year
• Net migration to the UK increased by 21% within a year
• Illegal migrants in Poland will be legalized
• British authorities will expel all foreigners who took part in the riots
• Sarrazin is blamed for failure of integration policy in Germany
• The number of victims of the hurricane "Irene" exceeded 50
• Thailand is the leader among Asian countries by the number of fatal traffic accidents
• UN warns of bird flu return
• British hospitals will reduce the number of cesarean sections to save money
• Most American doctors received predictions of the claims from patients
• More than 5 million people suffer a shortage of drinking water in Southwest China
• Danes are the happiest Europeans
• Colleagues of a doctor accused of euthanasia refused to investigate

Newspapers write about ...

• "Rossiyskaya Gazeta" about world population projections
• "Slon.ru" about when everybody will die
• "Belorusskaya niva" and "Belorusy i rynok" about demographic problems of Belarus
• "Belorusy i rynok" about the stimulation of migration in Belarus
• "Belorusskie novosti” about the program for demographic security of Belarus
• "Rossiyskaya Gazeta" about the postponement of marriage
• "Novaya Gazeta" and "Novye izvestiya" about abortions in Russia and the U.S.
• "Echo" about reproductive medicine
• "Meditsinskaya Gazeta" about pre-implantation genetic diagnostics
• "The Washington Post" about the ethnic composition of the largest urban agglomerations in the U.S.
• "Russ.ru" about migration and ethnic problems
• "Novaya Gazeta" about "European" values
• "Literaturnaya Gazeta" about riots in London
• "Geopolitika" about right-wing parties of Europe
• "Telegraph" about the views of Latvian nationalists on migration policy
• "Novye izvestiya" about ethnic problems in Russia
• "La Russie d'Aujourd'hui" about migration problems in Russia and the EU
• "Vzglyad" about a conservative look at the migration policy in Russia
• "Kommersant" about immigration in the UK
• "Moscow News" about the upcoming restrictions of immigration in the UK
• "Kommersant" about immigration amnesty in Poland
• "Lidove noviny" about migration from Eastern Europe to Germany
• "The Washington Times" about the criteria of non-deportation of immigrants from the U.S.
• "Moscow News" about female labor migration in Russia
• "Nezavisimaya Gazeta" about migration in the CIS and the Russian language
• "Komsomolskaya Pravda" about the conflict in the Saratov Region
• "Novaya Gazeta" about generations of Russians and the middle class
• "Itogi" about the possible abolition of employment record books
• "Corriere della Sera" about the dangers of smoking for women
• "Belorusskie novosti" about the fight against alcoholism in Belarus
• "Newsweek" about the benefits and harms of treatment
• "Polit.ru" about evolution and life expectancy
• "Rossiyskaya Gazeta - Weekly" about reverse mortgages
• "Lenta.Ru" about euthanasia
• "Telegraph" about the movement "No entry with children”
• "Moscow News" about child upbringing
• "Rossiyskaya Gazeta" about the expansion of Moscow
• "Delovoy Peterburg" about the size of St. Petersburg’s population

Recent publications

• Dictionnaire de démographie et des sciences de la population (Dictionary of demography and population studies)
• World migration report 2010 the future of migration: building capacities for change
• Globalization of demography
• Social support: lessons from crises and vectors of modernization
• Results of the self-evaluation of public health services in the Republic of Uzbekistan
• Analysis of individual cases of enforcement of the administrative law in the field of migration
• Through the pages of magazines "Statistical Issues" and "Man and Work" (“Chelovek I trud”)
• Contents of the journal “Gender and Development”

New in the Reading Room

• National Program of Demographic Security of Belarus for 2011-2015

Profession: Researcher

• Anatoly Antonov is 75

Satirical column

• Demographic revolution in the Simbirsk region

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• DW Web Site Traffic in August stopped reducing
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• The geography of Russian visitors has narrowed again
• The most reading DW visitors overseas are from Iran
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