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In this issue:

Current topic: Marriages, partnerships and fertility of generations of Russians

• Modernization of nuptiality and fertility in Russia in the mirror of generations
• Marriage and partnership
• Out-of-wedlock births: a mass phenomenon
• First marriage, first partnership and the probability of birth of the first child
• Marriage, partnership and births: a separation in time
• Conclusions

Russian demographic barometer

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

• In January-July 2011 there was a renewed decline in the number of deaths and the total mortality rate
• There was a decline in mortality from all major groups of causes, except for respiratory diseases and certain infectious and parasitic diseases
• Despite the continued decline in mortality from external causes, it remains extremely high
• Infant mortality in January-July 2011 fell to 7.5‰

Analytical articles

• Target indicators of population policy: is our choice correct?
• New trends in fertility in Siberia (Irkutsk region)
• The vector of family policy (results of demographic surveys)
• The transformation of family values ​​and reproductive attitudes of the generations of parents and children
• Poverty and welfare of Russian families with children at different stages of the economic cycle
• An employee’s resort to drug treatment portends his departure from the company

Take care of women!

• Will Russia choose to ban abortions?
• Suggestions of Kirill, Patriarch of Moscow and all Rus', to improve the national policy in the field of family child care
• Amendments to the bill "On principles of public health protection in the Russian Federation"
• An application letter from the Center for Reproductive Rights
• A letter of MPs from the Socialist parties of Europe to the leader of the party "Fair Russia"
• Fighting abortions instead of women!

Interactive poll

• Your attitude to abortions

Recent polls

• Religious composition of the Russian population
• Russians named the best age
• Nationalism in Russia

Russian news

• Russian Security Council took concern over the working-age population decline
• Without an increase in migration, the working-age population in Russian will be considerably reduced
• Moscow authorities expect a yearly reduction of the working-age population by 50-80 thousand people
• A quarter of Russian employers agree to hire pensioners
• Formation of the resident population is the basis of development of the Far East
• Almost 1.5 million first-form pupils went to school in Russia this year
• According to Medvedev, the structure of our society has become much more complex
• Russia should concentrate its efforts on overcoming poverty
• Sobyanin hopes that Moscow will join the list of world’s metropolitan cities
• "New" Moscow needs at least two university campuses
• Salaries in Moscow will start to increase annually by 4% at an average from 2012
• The rules of providing social services will be unified on the territory of Russia
• 600000 large families in Russia rely on the state in solving housing problems
• Liberal Democratic Party requires introducing a visa regime with countries of Central Asia and Transcaucasia
• Russia will develop measures to encourage Russian scientists working abroad to return
• Ministry of Education defined the criteria for attracting foreign workers in research organizations
• Does cheap labor corrupt Russian society?
• Poor education in schools is not always due to a high proportion of children of migrants
• According to Gryzlov, migrants willing to work in Russia should master the Russian language
• Ministry of Health proposes to improve insurance coverage for migrants from the CIS
• Russia is unable to deport illegal immigrants, even if it’s desired
• The geography of ethnic tensions in Russia expands
• 500 children and teenagers were killed on the roads of Russia since the beginning of the year
• 17 children died during the summer sanitary campaign
• Stars will discuss the benefits of sober lifestyle
• Ministry of Health may extend the list of diseases whose treatment is financed from the state budget
• State Duma suggests permitting anonymous abandonment of infants
• Children's Ombudsman Astakhov insists on death penalty for parents committing infanticide

Eurasian news

• Minsk intends to stop the natural loss of population within five years
• Belarus has the lowest infant mortality rate among the CIS countries
• Yanukovich signed a bill on pension reform
• Azerbaijan will hold a survey on public health and demography
• The adult literacy rate in Belarus approaches 100%
• Since February 2010 640 schools in Ukraine have been closed
• Has the Ukrainian State Statistics Committee by 3 times underestimated the percentage of the poor?
• Almost half of Armenian families are poor, a quarter of the population lives in debt
• Minimum wages in Belarus in August amounted to Br 687370
• The аverage salary in Moldova decreased in July
• Among the CIS countries, the highest minimum pension is in Kazakhstan, the lowest is in Tajikistan
• The average monthly pension in Belarus increased by 33.6% compared to 2010
• The basic pension in Kyrgyzstan increases from October 1
• Childbirth allowances in Belarus will be doubled in October
• Belarus introduces new rules for scholarships
• The unemployment rate falls in Moldova
• The Russian language remains an important factor of communication in the CIS
• Azerbaijan refused to accomplish the migration agreement of the CIS towards Armenia
• Armenia leads among the South Caucasus countries by the number of people relocating to Russia for permanent residence
• Medvedev and Rakhmon discussed the issue of migration from Tajikistan
• Belarusian business fears massive labor emigration
• The structure of illegal migration to Ukraine has much changed in recent years
• Moldovan guest workers in Austria will obtain social insurance
• The remittances growth rate to Moldova reduced in July
• Ukraine refused to test immigrants for knowledge of the state language
• The proportion of smokers among men in Azerbaijan is very high
• Ukrainian Ministry of Health suggests prohibiting all forms of tobacco advertising
• Breast cancer holds the first place in the structure of mortality from malignant tumors among women of Kyrgyzstan
• The TB incidence rate in Kyrgyzstan decreased to 100.9 per 100 thousand

World news

• The population of Romania continues to decline
• 793 million adults in the world can neither write nor read yet
• The government of Germany is planning to raise the retirement age to 69 years
• The Council of Europe suggests prohibiting reporting the sex of future children
• China introduced fines for those who give birth to a second child abroad in violation of the birth control policy
• Finland will not make agreement with Russia about the children of mixed marriages
• Under the economic crisis Latvia resembles a terminally ill patient
• U.S. failed to lower the unemployment rate in August
• Obama suggests investing $ 49 billion for unemployment benefits
• The unemployment rate in Lithuania increased to 10.82%
• Gaddafi used migration as a weapon against Western Europe
• Lithuania suggests criminalizing illegal employment of migrants
• Swedish police learn Arabic
• In Eastern Europe, cardiovascular disease (CVD) mortality remains high
• The number of victims of the March disaster in Japan reached 15 763 people
• 12 million new cancer cases are registered in the world every year
• September 10 is World Suicide Prevention Day
• Nearly 287000 people commit suicide in China every year
• Europe suggests introducing speed limits and reducing mortality
• 2.5 thousand victims of syphilis experiments have been counted in Guatemala
• One in ten Belgians takes psychoactive drugs regularly
• WHO denied statements of increased danger of a new strain of bird flu
• Lithuania holds the 19th place in the world by facilities for children’s health protection
• Antibiotics now are rarely used for treatment of American children
• Active euthanasia debates have been renewed in France
• Newborn male circumcision has become a rare practice in U.S. hospitals
• Children lower their fathers’ level of testosterone, making them healthier
• Workaholics are more likely to live longer, scientists say

Newspapers write about ...

• "Trud" about generations in Russia
• "Chaskor.ru" about the bill on abortions
• "Rossiyskaya Gazeta" and "Echo" about selective abortions
• "Fontanka.ru" about IVF
• "Gorod.lv" and "Chas" about the real population and emigration from Latvia
• "Nezavisimaya Gazeta" about the demographic situation in Russia
• "Belorusskiye Novosti" about the overpopulation of Minsk
• "Novaya Gazeta" about the Moscow Agglomeration
• "Time / World Crunch” about the future aging of China
• "Radiovesti.ru", “Novye Izvestiya" and "Vedomosti" about the labor resource prospects of Russia and migration
• "Nezavisimaya Gazeta" about the abolition of quotas and the introduction of a point system for permanent migrants to Russia
• "Nezavisimaya Gazeta" about zero quotas for Chinese workers in Krasnoyarsk Krai
• "Novye Izvestiya" about migrants and Russian citizenship
• "Regions.ru" about children of migrants
• "Echo planety" about immigration issues in Denmark
• "Le Monde” about border control within the Schengen zone
• "Moscow News" about emigration
• "Kommersant" about Rogozin and the national issue
• "Expert" about nations and the national issue
• "Novye Izvestiya" about the new racial issues in the U.S.
• "Respublika KZ" about Russians in Kazakhstan
• "Centrasia" and "Moldavskiye Vedomosti" about the Russian language in Kazakhstan and Moldova
• "Radio "Azattyk" about migration from Kyrgyzstan to Russia
• "Slovo.kg” about labor migration in Kyrgyzstan
• "Denh" about labor migration from Ukraine
• "Novye Izvestiya" about the migration of scientists
• "REGNUM" about Yezidi Kurds and Southern Kurdistan
• "Novye Izvestiya" about inter-caste problems in India
• "Rosbalt" about the quality of education as seen by Zurabov
• "Nezavisimaya Moldova" about the quality of life in post-Soviet countries
• "Belorusskiye Novosti" about suicides in Belarus
• "Moskovskiy Komsomolets" about the program "Healthcare in Moscow in 2012-2016"
• "Mednovosti.Ru" about the contest for HIV prevention
• "Russia blog" about the reliability of the data of Russian and U.S. Censuses
• "La Stampa" about famine in Somalia
• "Itogi" about human evolution
• "Nezavisimaya Gazeta" about autism

Recent publications

• Human Development in Ukraine: minimization of social risks
• Medical and social implications of population aging (on the example of the Samara region)
• Health care and social development problems of the Arctic zone of Russia
• Migration and spatial mobility of the rural-urban continuum of Russia in the XX Century: manageability, adaptability and overcoming strategies
• Migration processes in Russia
• Through the pages of magazines “Obstetrics and Gynecology” and “Vestnik RAMN” (“Bulletin of Russian Medical Sciences Academy”)
• Contents of the “Journal of Marriage and Family”

Profession: Researcher

• 160 years since the birth of Maksim Kovalevsky
• Young scientists of HSE at the conference of the British Society for Population Studies
• Challenges of urban diversity and the search for answers in the era of large-scale migrations. Workshop at the Gorbachev Foundation
• In memory of Nina Tarasova

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• International scientific-practical conference "Ethnic migration in post-Soviet Central Siberia: integration and adaptation processes". Krasnoyarsk, Russia. 27-29 October 2011. Submission Deadline: 10 October 2011.
• International Seminar on Patterns of Economic Development, Social Change, and Fertility Decline in Comparative Perspective: Analysis and Policy Implications. Shanghai, China. 24-26 May 2012. Submission Deadline: 15 December 2011.
• Vacancy for a Post-doc position: Migration and Transnational Families, The Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at the University of Maastricht, Netherlands. Application Deadline: 29 September 2011.
• 2nd Asian Population Association Conference. Bangkok, Thailand. 26-29 August 2012. Submission Deadline: 15 December 2011.
• Alp-Pop: the Alpine Population Conference. La Thuile (Aosta Valley, Italy). 15-18 January 2012. Submission Deadline: 16 October 2011.
• 2nd ISA Forum of Sociology: Session "Who's Afraid of Population Decline?
  Challenges, Responses and Consequences". Buenos Aires, Argentina. 1-4 August 2012. Submission Deadline: 15 December 2011.