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Current topic: Fertility in Moscow in the 2000s

• Fertility in Moscow in "the zero years" was growing
• Muscovite women are not alone to give birth in Moscow
• Total fertility rate confirms the positive trends of "the zero years"
• What ensured the fertility growth in Moscow since 2007?
• Age model of fertility in Moscow changes towards aging
• Not all children are born in wedlock

World demographic barometer

• UN presented a third report on fertility trends in the world
• The median value of TFR has declined more than twice over the past decades - from 5.6 in 1970-1979 to 2.4 in 2000-2007
• The average maternal age at birth remained fairly stable: its median value for all countries of the world was 28.8 years in the 1970s and 28.7 years in the 2000s
• Nuptiality has less impact on fertility - the median value of the share of births outside marriage rose from 7.1% in 1970s to 33.8% in 2000s

Analytical articles

• The possibilities of using data based on the records of civil status for assessing the impact of migration on reproduction
• Young families with children: who they are, how they live, what they want
• Features of ethno-cultural adaptation of migrants’ children in Moscow schools
• "Civil marriage": between politics and everyday life
• The population of Kaliningrad against the background of the oblast, the country, and the Baltic region

Russian news

• Neither authoritarianism nor brain drain in Russia?
• The housing in Russia makes 40% of the level of developed countries
• The cost of minimum food basket has made 2399.6 rubles
• The real amount of pensions in October rose by 1.6%
• Medvedev has introduced changes to the law on pension savings
• More than 630000 families paid off housing loans with the help of maternity capital
• Authorities do not plan to cancel the birth certificates
• Social support for women and children in Russia is poorly funded
• The problem of shortage of places in kindergartens will be solved in three years?
• The Federation Council introduced a Children’s Ombudsmen Institute in Russian regions
• 8000 adoption agreements cancelled in Russia in two years
• For the first time in Russia a child was left in the baby box for abandoned children
• Medvedev clarified the order of migration for employment
• Medvedev urged women to go to court in case of violation of rights in the labor market
• Russia to issue first biometric passports with fingerprints in 2012
• Russia will not be able to grant citizenship to Kosovo Serbs
• The Federation Council introduced an administrative arrest for violation of readmission order
• Russia must prepare for a big wave of immigrants from Turkmenistan?
• Migrant workers: "a problem and a hope of Russia"
• Medvedev expressed the need for requirements for the qualification of migrants
• Without the knowledge of Russian, migrant workers will not be able to obtain a work permit in Russia
• Test of Russian for immigrants will cost 2.5 thousand rubles
• Rospotrebnadzor proposes medical check-ups for would-be migrants from Tajikistan before traveling to Russia
• 46% of Russians are indifferent to reinstating the nationality column in internal passports
• The number of new HIV cases will double in the next five years
• Ministry of Health developed a procedure for providing medical care to HIV-infected persons
• The number of HIV infections through intravenous drug use has declined in Moscow by 4 times
• Mortality of Russians from alcohol poisoning fell by almost a third in 2011
• 45.9% of Russians can not do without alcohol on New Year’s Day
• Dmitry Medvedev urged the media and the Internet to fight alcoholism and drug addiction
• Russia will not use substitutive therapy for drug users
• More than 90% of suicides among adolescents in Russia are related to family problems
• Cancer mortality in Russia fell by 1.5% in 2011
• 90% of children with primary immunodeficiency die in Russia without diagnosis
• There has been twice fewer workplace injuries over the past 10 years
• Ministry of Public Health and Social Development proposes a 100-fold increase in fines for violating labor conditions
• Medvedev raised monthly expenses on treatment of children with disabilities
• People with disabilities of the first category will be allowed to work
• RAMS institutions will be included in the program of heath care modernization
• Poor health care system was mentioned by every second respondent in Russia
• 7000 Russians are in custody or under trial abroad

Eurasian news

• A quarter of young Armenians do not intend to raise a family and have children
• The population of Belarus on November 1 is 9466.7 thousand people
• The demographic situation in Armenia is unfavorable
• The population census in Belarus was in line with international recommendations
• UNFPA invested more than $ 900000 into preparation and conducting of the census in Belarus
• The minimum wage in Azerbaijan increased to $ 3.96 per day
• Belarus does not allow any significant differentiation in pay
• Azerbaijan approves criterion of needs and subsistence increase in 2012
• Azerbaijan's pension expenditures in 2012 to exceed 5.1% of GDP
• UNICEF calls Armenian government to eradicate child poverty
• The number of children in the orphanages of Azerbaijan reduced by almost a half over 2 years
• Foreigners will be allowed to adopt Moldovan children for 3000 lei
• Tajikistan needs a law on the prevention of domestic violence
• The number of registered unemployed in Belarus is 29.6 thousand people
• The unemployment rate in Moldova has declined
• 250000 jobs will be created in Tajikistan within two years
• Residents of Georgia and Turkey will be able to cross the state border between the two countries without external passports
• The introduction of visa regime between Russia and the countries of Central Asia is impossible
• Ukraine removed Moldova from the list of countries with a "migration risk"
• Tajik Migration Service will open its office in Kazakhstan
• Azerbaijan introduced a computerized migrant recording system
• Russia, USA and Germany are the most common destinations for migrant workers from Belarus
• Tajik Migration Service refutes information about millions of Tajik migrants working abroad
• Azerbaijan increases the quota for migrant workers
• Nearly 9000 foreigners expelled from Azerbaijan since the beginning of the year
• Tajikistan's Ministry of Interior will help Tajik labor migrants working in Russia receive their documents through Internet
• Switzerland ready to assist with organizing language courses for migrant workers from Tajikistan
• The number of crimes related to trafficking in Belarus reduced over 4 years
• An absolute majority of Belarus citizens believe that interethnic relations in the country are calm
• 7014 HIV-infected persons registered in Moldova
• More than 1.1 thousand cases of HIV infection registered in Armenia
• The epidemiological situation of HIV / AIDS in Kyrgyzstan remains difficult
• HIV / AIDS incidence in Kazakhstan reduces significantly
• UN invested $ 35 million to fight HIV and TB in Tajikistan
• Nearly a third of Belarusian adolescents begin sexual life at age 15
• Uzbekistan will spend more than $ 1.5 billion on health care reform
• President Rahmon is asked to abolish the death penalty in Tajikistan

World news

• UNFPA published the State of World Population 2011 report
• Migrants make up about 3% of world population
• Presidents live longer than average people?
• More than a half of young Japanese do not have partners
• Baby boom among quadragenarians is observed in the UK
• 25% of children in New York live in families that do not have enough money for food
• UN warns of global land degradation
• Famine continues to be a problem for North Korea
• Yemen faces a grave humanitarian crisis
• For the third year in a row Vienna ranked as the best city in the world for quality of life
• Côte d'Ivoire uses child labor in cocoa production
• Latvian parliament refused to permit teaching in Russian in public schools and universities
• Latvian Saeima expressed concern over employment of Latvians who do not know Russian
• Eurozone unemployment hits record 10.3% in October
• The number of unemployed in Spain reached 4.42 million people
• Official unemployment in Estonia continues to grow
• Hamburg began to actively promote German citizenship among immigrants
• UAE gives women right to pass on nationality to children
• Norwegians have adopted a more positive attitude towards immigrants after Breivik’s attacks
• 7000 people infected with AIDS per day
• Macedonia is successfully fighting the HIV epidemic
• More than 300 new HIV cases registered in Estonia in 2010
• The number of people infected by the HIV virus in China is expected to reach 780000 by the end of the year
• In China, there’s a demand to lift the ban on public service for HIV-positive people
• Most people with HIV in the U.S. do not receive the medical care
• Thailand's flood death toll rises to 616
• Denmark ranks first in the world for skin cancer
• The first patient in this season dies from swine flu in the Czech Republic
• 2.5 million lives can be saved by implementing measures to combat harmful emissions
• UK women are "fattest in Europe"
• Sedentary lifestyle is harmful to health of office workers
• 3 December is International Day of Persons  with Disabilities
• Latvian Saeima voted for abolition of the death penalty
• Japan's oldest person dies at 115

Newspapers write about ...

• "Slon.Ru" about demographic problems in Russia and in the world
• "RBC" about demographic situation in Russia
• "Zavtra tvoey strany" and "Narodnaya gazeta" about demographic problems of Belarus
• "Ves.lv» and "Chas" about the future population decline and the real emigration from Latvia
• "Moscow News" about scientific, industrial and demographic revolutions
• "Rus.azattyq.org» about fertility in Kazakhstan
• "Rossiyskaya gazeta" about the new concept of parental tax deduction
• "Ogonek" about costs of China's population policy
• "Novye izvestia" about migration and big politics
• "Odnako" about the problems of Russia's migration policy
• "Moscow news" about illegal immigration in the U.S.
• "Novye izvestia" and "Itogi" about pensions for migrant workers
• "Moscow news" about children of migrants in Russia
• "Paruskg.info» about the problems caused by labor migration in Tajikistan
• "Vecherniy Bishkek" about organized migration from Kyrgyzstan to Russia
• "Liter.kz» about Kazakhstan's integration into EurAsEC and migration
• "Economicheskiye izvestia" about Ukraine's ratification of the CIS' Convention on the legal status of the migrant workers and members of their family
• "Profile" about emigration intentions of Russians
• "Profile" about ambitions and ammunition in the management of internal migration
• "Vedomosti" about commercial apartment buildings
• "Novye izvestia" about Russia and the Caucasus issue
• "Kommersant" about Russian health care system
• "Novye izvestia" about health care system in Moscow
• "Moscow news" about the problems of rural hospitals in Russia
• "Moscow news" about expanding the number of clinics - MHI participants
• "Kommersant" about alternative medicine
• "AMI-TASS," about upcoming changes in standard certificates of live birth
• "RIA "Novosti" and "Belorusskiye novosti" about AIDS in Russia and Belarus
• "Moscow news" about availability of antiretroviral drugs
• "Nezavisimaya gazeta" about life expectancy at retirement and the amount of pensions
• "RG-Ekonomika" about raising the retirement age
• "Sb.by" about the pension issue of Belarus
• "AMI-TASS" about health and well-being of Russians
• "Business New Europe" about old and new poor countries
• "Itogi" about changing approaches to defining poverty in China
• "Novye izvestia" about OECD report on inequality
• "Kommersant" about the motivation of Russian workers
• "Novye izvestia" about the global food issue
• "Ogonek" about unwanted daughters
• "Ytro.ru" about Japanese matrimonial behaviour
• "RBC" about the problems of cities in Eastern Germany
• "YTPO.ru" about a possible reduction in the number of small towns in Russia

Recent publications

• A city in the context of global processes
• Territorial organization of population and economy
• Economic demography
• Proposals for institutional modernization of Russia’s migration policy
• Statistical methods in demography and life insurance
• Through the pages of magazines "Problems of Social Hygiene, Health Care and History of Medicine" and "Economics and Organization of Industrial Production (ECO)"
• Contents of "Journal of International Migration and Integration»

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