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Current topic: Life
expectancy of 70 years, or déjà vu of Russian demography
- Autobiographical introduction
- Life expectancy of 70 years, what did it mean in
the 1960s?
- Life expectancy in the USSR
- Causes and lessons of mortality growth in the USSR
European
demographic barometer
- Life expectancy in the European Union approaches
80 years
- Under conditions of mortality in 2008, 90.5% of women
and 81.3% of men in the EU-27 and 78.6% and 48.7% in Russia respectively
lived to the exact age of 65 years
- Healthy life expectancy in the European Union remained
relatively stable in 2008-2009
- 2/3 of deaths in the EU-27 are due to cardiovascular
diseases and malignant neoplasms
- The fastest reducing mortality is from cardiovascular
diseases, diseases of the respiratory system and from external
causes
Analytical
articles
- Alcohol-related casualties of the Russian population
in 2000-2008: scale, structure and trends
- Injuries and poisoning in 2005-2008: gender issues,
trends, priorities
- Why health capital accumulates in the developed countries
and is sent down the throat in the post-Soviet Russia? (Post-Keynesian
analysis case study)
- The situation of alcohol use in a northern city
Take
care of women!
- In which countries is it best to become a mother
- 2011
Recent
polls
- ‘Fifth column’ in passports
- Rules for registration: tighten or liberalize?
Russian
news
- The population of the Russian Federation decreased
by 47.1 thousand people since the beginning of 2011
- Medvedev signed the law on health care
- Working-age population mortality in Russia is 4 times
higher than in Europe
- Russian authorities have not yet planned to raise
the retirement age, Putin said
- 7% of Russians barely make ends meet
- Medvedev proposed to allocate land to those who wish
to leave the Far North
- State Duma introduced "nomadic registration"
for native minorities
- Government authorized the use of maternity capital
to pay for kindergartens
- State Duma secured the right of post-graduates to
defer from military service
- The order of non-competitive enrollment in Russian
higher education is changing
- State Duma introduced a special training for future
adoptive parents
- Medvedev promised retirees to guarantee the protection
of their rights in the labor market
- Overall unemployment in Russia increased by 190 thousand
people in October
- Russia should grant citizenship to Kosovo Serbs?
- Medvedev instructed the FMS to actively attract highly
skilled foreign professionals
- St.Petersburg needs more migrant workers than Moscow?
- Tajik citizens break the law in Russia more often
than other migrants?
- State Duma will not support the law on migrants’
incarceration for refusing to leave
- Migrants will be obliged to prove knowledge of Russian
- Onishchenko proposes to temporarily ban the entry
for migrants from Tajikistan for medical reasons
- Public Chamber calls for the development of migrants
medical control system
- Mortality from circulatory diseases has decreased
by 7.3% in 2011
- Mortality of Muscovites in 2011 fell by 13% in comparison
with that in 2010
- Compulsory treatment of drug addicts is no longer
necessary
- The number of suicide attempts in Russia is 20 times
higher than the number of suicides
- The frequency of group suicides among teenagers increased
in Russia
- Road accidence in Russia dropped by 1.5 times in
seven years
- 22 thousand people were killed in road accidents
in Russia in 2011
- The number of diabetic patients in Russia is three
times higher than the official statistics show
- There were fewer abortions in Moscow in 2011
- About 100000 premature babies are born in Russia
every year
- 4-5% of the parents on average refuse to vaccinate
children
- Roshal predicted the disappearance of free medicine
- Salary of ambulance doctors in Moscow will reach
84 thousand rubles by the end of the year
Eurasian
news
- The population of Ukraine is reducing each month
by several thousand people
- Medvedev, Lukashenko and Nazarbaev signed an agreement
on the establishment of Eurasian Economic Commission
- EU is ready to help the economic development of Armenia
- EU allocated 19 million euros to Georgia on the reform
of the regional development
- Head of Ukrainian National Bank announced a "soft
devaluation" of the hryvnia
- The minimum pension in Kyrgyzstan will be raised
to the subsistence level in 2012
- Subsistence level in the capital of Kyrgyzstan increased
by 22%
- Ukraine launches an experiment on an indirect assessment
of incomes of citizens applying for social assistance
- Employment in Ukraine does not protect against poverty
- Experts predict a decline in unemployment in Ukraine
- Working conditions in Kyrgyzstan changed for the
worse in 2011
- European Commission allocates 74 million euros on
projects addressing problems of migration in the CIS
- Refugees in Belarus are promised support from the
EU
- A group aimed at solving migrants’ problems has been
organized in Tajikistan
- Tajikistan is the world leader in terms of the share
of remittances in GDP
- In order to find a job in Tajikistan, one should
be deported from Russia?
- Educated workers will constitute the third wave of
migration from the Ukraine?
- Victor Yanukovych signed the law requiring the knowledge
of Ukrainian from the police officers
- Kyrgyz people want to learn Russian
- Russian will become the second official language
in South Ossetia
- Parents of HIV-positive Kyrgyz children rally in
Bishkek
- In Ukraine it has been proposed to increase fines
for smoking in catering facilities
- Mortality from tuberculosis in prisons of Azerbaijan
decreased by 35 times
- Every tenth child in Moldova is dying of pneumonia
- Ukraine court bans tourism in Chernobyl
World
news
- World is threatened by a shortage of females
- UK population growth due to immigration reached its
highest level in 2010
- Israel is ahead of the U.S. and Canada by average
life expectancy
- European Commission demanded that the five EU member
states urgently reduce the budget deficit
- Seoul has been ranked first among the most “intelligent”
cities in the world
- U.S. unemployment rate will stay at 9% through 2012
- The number of applicants to win a U.S. green card
reduced by half
- Italian President intends to grant the Italian citizenship
to children of immigrants
- U.S. and Russia signed an agreement on visa facilitation
- Japan wants an agreement with Russia on temporary
labor migration
- U.S. observe a reduction in internal migration
- Representatives of national minorities of Lithuania
are ready to protest by taking the children out of school
- Latvia started collecting signatures for giving Russian
a status of a second official language
- AIDS mortality in the world fell by 21% in five years
- Up to 90% of HIV-positive people from Eastern Europe
and Central Asia live in Russia and Ukraine
- HIV-infected doctors will be allowed to practise
in the UK
- Alcohol consumption in the U.S. has reached its maximum
over the past 25 years
- The crisis did not help U.S. people to quit smoking
- Estonia leads in the EU in the number of injecting
drug users
- Experts predict one in ten adults will have diabetes
by 2030
- UK public hospitals saved nearly 35 thousand patients
from cancer over the past 25 years
- American psychiatrists learned to predict suicides
- British women are more likely to give birth to twins
- American teens are less likely to give birth
- European Court bans embryonic stem cell patents
- Arctic Sea's ice loss this summer was 'unprecedented'
over the past 1450 years
- The number of extreme weather events in the world
may increase substantially
- Lesbians and gays will be allowed to marry in church
in Denmark
Newspapers
write about ...
- "Izvestia" about reducing mortality from
alcohol poisoning
- "Novye izvestia" about the prospects for
reducing road accident mortality
- "Vlast" about mortality and welfare
- "Komsomolskaya pravda" about the means
to improve life expectancy of Muscovites
- "Rossiyskaya gazeta – Weekly” about life expectancy
factors
- "Meditsinskaya gazeta" about academic and
industrial medicine
- "Independent" about powerlessness against
infections
- "Delovoy vtornik" about depopulation in
Russia
- "The National Interest" about population
and migration issues in Armenia
- "Le Monde" about a new method of raising
fertility
- "Komsomolskaya pravda" about fertility
in Moscow
- "Vecherniy Bishkek" about large families
in Kyrgyzstan
- "Nezavisimaya gazeta" about social expenses
after the elections
- "RBC daily", "Rossiyskaya gazeta -
Weekly" and "Sobesednik" about the new trends of
pension reform
- "Kommersant" about stability of the Russian
pension system
- "Moldavskie vedomosti" about the pension
problems of Moldova
- "Vecherniy Minsk" about sham marriages
in Belarus
- "Litovskiy Kurier" about the recognition
of unregistered partnerships in Lithuania
- "Novaya gazeta", "Moscow News",
"Gazeta.ru" and "Izvestia" about the Russian
pilot and Tajik migrant workers
- "Vedomosti" about Onishchenko’s proposal
to ban labor migration from Tajikistan
- "Dengi" about the Russian citizenship
- "Vzglyad", "Corriere della Sera"
and "Politika" about the Russian citizenship for Kosovo
Serbs
- "Rossiyskaya gazeta" about the new Stolypins
- "Parlamentskaya gazeta" about the migration
code
- "Opec.ru" about migration and ethnic issues
- "Komsomolskaya pravda" about migration
against modernization
- "Kommersant" about a shortage of workforce
in Russia
- "Vecherniy Bishkek" about migration issues
and migration policy of Russia
- "Argumenty i fakty" about the attitude
to migration and migrants
- "Moscow News" about registration and elections
- "Moscow News" about start-ups for internal
migrants
- "Rossiyskaya business-gazeta" about the
study of internal migration of professionals
- "Polit.ru" about the weak demographic rotation
in Moscow
- "Nezavisimaya gazeta" about labor migration
from Belarus
- "Kommersant" about EU-Russia visa issue
- "Vesti.ru" about global report on migration
2010
- "Vedomosti" about migration and oil prices
- "Finansovaya gazeta" about Moscow expansion
- "Nezavisimaya gazeta" about the benefits
of alcohol
- "Echo planety" about the "dry law"
- "La Stampa" about gender medicine
Recent
publications
- World Population in 2011
- Ukraine: Health System Review. Health Systems in
Transition
- Migration and Remittances Factbook 2011 – Second
Edition
- North Caucasus: a modernization challenge
- Temporary labor migration: is it necessary to maintain
the quota?
- Through the pages of magazines “Sotsiologicheskiye
issledovaniya” ("Sociological studies") and “Rossiyskiy
meditsinskiy jurnal” ("Russian Medical Journal")
- Contents of "Journal of Ethnic and Migration
Studies" and "Explorations in Economic History"
Profession:
Researcher
- 140 years since the birth of V. Mikhailovsky (1871-1926)
From
the history of demographic thought
- Plato. Excerpts from the dialogues "The Republic"
and “Laws”
Students'
Page
- Congratulations to the winners of a student’s contest
- Olympiads for admission to Masters Program and career-oriented
Winter Schools
- Cohort matrimonial biographies and reproductive behavior
in modern Russia. Seminar of the Student Society "Demographer”
New
in the Reading Room
- Federal Law On Fundamentals of Protection of Public
Health in the Russian Federation
Satirical
column
- Population policy in developing countries as an insult
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