Contents of Demoscope Weekly issue

## 491-492

Current topic: Tuberculosis burden in Russia

  • Russia is among the countries with the largest spread of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis
  • Tuberculosis mortality among the working-age population is higher than that from a myocardial infarction
  • High-risk groups
  • Tuberculosis: the burden of morbidity and mortality
  • Possible future scenarios

World demographic barometer

  • Concerns about fertility issues increased in developed countries and decreased in developing countries
  • Unsatisfied needs for effective contraception remains high
  • Expanding abortion rights is a global trend
  • Maternal mortality remains high in many countries
  • Decline in teenage fertility has become slower

Analytical articles

  • Comparison of tuberculosis incidence in the world, the WHO European Region and the Russian Federation
  • Recorded tuberculosis incidence in the federal districts and subjects of the Russian Federation
  • Impact of HIV infection on the development of the epidemiological situation of tuberculosis
  • About the registration of tuberculosis patients from the institutions of the Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia
  • Structure and dynamics of mortality by causes of death in the Komi Republic

Census 2010

  • About the results of the National Russian Census 2010. Report of Rosstat.
  • Where does Russia rank in terms of population? Demoscope comments
  • "RIA" Novosti", "Rossiyskaya Gazeta", "Moskovsky Komsomolets", "Moscow News", "Novye Izvestiya" and "Nezavisimaya gazeta" about the final results of the Census
  • "Rossiyskaya Gazeta" and “Slon.ru” about the ethnic composition of Russia’s population
  • "Moscow News" and "Rosbalt" about the ethnic composition of Moscow’s population
  • “Obozrevatel.com” about the "oppression" of Ukrainians in Russia
  • "Rossiyskaya Gazeta" and “Forbes” about the problems and the prospects of the Census
  • "Moscow News" about the population aging and employment in Russia
  • "Nezavisimaya Gazeta" about the educational level of Russia’s population

Take care of women!

  • HIV/AIDS in Europe - 2010
  • HIV in the Russian Federation - 2011

Russian news

  • Final results of the National Russian Census 2010 have been published
  • Experts advocate introduction of mandatory population census in Russia
  • Nearly 5.6 million Russians did not specify the nationality in the census
  • Russia has lost one million Ukrainians
  • Since the beginning of 2011 Russia’s population has decreased by 40.8 thousand people
  • Experts advise Russians to start a family before the age of 30
  • Astakhov proposes to create a separate agency for family issues
  • Putin proposes to reduce the number of foreigners who adopt Russian children
  • St. Petersburg authorities refused the usage of baby-boxes
  • Russia needs modernization projects for 12 megacities
  • Russians will have to work for 45 years in order to receive the maximum pension
  • The number of pensioners receiving social bonuses may decrease in 2012
  • Minimum cost of living in Moscow is about 9200 rubles
  • Official unemployment in Russia has increased by 1% within two weeks
  • In November the number of hired workers exceeded the number of fired by 8.4 thousand people
  • Employment support programs in the North Caucasus will be continued
  • Putin proposes to tighten the place of residence registration rules
  • Medvedev has introduced a special residence permit for nomadic peoples
  • External passports with fingerprints will be issued in 2012
  • More than 25 thousand compatriots returned to Russia in 2011
  • Foundation to Support and Protect the Rights of Compatriots Living Abroad will start operating in 2012
  • Putin called the emigration from Russia “fleeing from an ill mother”
  • Skilled migrant workers (electricians, welders, drillers) will be able to work in Russia without quotas
  • Moscow prosecutor promised to verify all complaints from Tajik migrants
  • 90 HIV-infected migrants were deported from St. Petersburg in 2011
  • Patients with sarcoma will be provided with medications
  • Ministry of Health is preparing a drug treatment program
  • 45 people get killed daily in fire accidents in Russia
  • The number of deaths in Moscow’s pre-trial detention centers declined by 1.5 times
  • Ministry of Health is preparing a new project on mental health care in Russia
  • A list of 567 essential drugs has been approved
  • No need to count on the invention of an elixir of youth

Eurasian news

  • Kazakhstan’s population increased by 23 thousand people within a month
  • The number of marriages in Kazakhstan increased by 7.9% from January to October
  • Uzbekistan may raise the minimum age for marriage
  • Pension reforms will form the basis of economic reforms in Armenia
  • Tajikistan is the most dependent on remittances country in the world
  • Ukraine has an almost European-level salary?
  • The average salary in Moldova increased by 10.4%
  • Azarov promises a "tangible" increase in salaries of Ukrainian budget workers
  • The average monthly salary in Azerbaijan is $ 450
  • Subsistence level in Moldova increased by 6.2%
  • The share of the Kazakhstan’s population with incomes below the subsistence minimum level has dropped to 5%
  • The number of unemployed officially registered in Ukraine has increased
  • The unemployment rate in Belarus is 0.6%
  • The unemployment rate in Kazakhstan in November rose to 5.4%
  • The real unemployment benefit in Azerbaijan decreased by 11%
  • The unemployment rate in Nagorno-Karabakh is 22.3%
  • In Kyrgyzstan more than half of the economically active population are unemployed
  • Almost half of young people in Armenia are unemployed
  • The real unemployment rate in Armenia is much higher than the official data
  • About 3 million Ukrainian migrants work abroad
  • The number of Tajik citizens officially working in Russia increased by 7 times within a year
  • More than 10 thousand Chinese come to Kyrgyzstan every year
  • Azerbaijan introduced an "infectious" ban on the involvement of U.S. experts
  • Azerbaijan restricts the entry of persons without citizenship
  • UNICEF conducted a study on the impact of labor migration on children of Tajik migrants
  • Schools with teaching in minor languages are actively closing in Ukraine
  • A consistent trend in HIV transmission is observed in Kyrgyzstan
  • People in Kazakhstan die most often from diseases of the circulatory system
  • About 7,200 Armenian women resorted to selective abortion in the past five years
  • Surrogacy in Belarus will be enshrined in law
  • Expenses on health care in Ukraine are 10-15 times lower than in Europe

World news

  • Christians make up about a third of the world’s population
  • By 2100 the population of the Czech Republic may be reduced almost twice
  • Germany is a home to immigrants from 188 countries
  • India’s oldest man died at the age of 125
  • The number of married Americans hits record low
  • Germany introduced minimum wages for temporary workers
  • The main task of the U.S. administration is the creation of jobs
  • Obama intends to reduce unemployment before the presidential elections
  • The unemployment rate in Lithuania is 10.56%
  • The Seimas rejected the proposal for cutting unemployment benefits
  • About 1 million biometric passports issued in France on forged documents?
  • U.S. citizens mistakenly jailed for being illegal immigrants
  • U.S. Supreme Court will review Arizona Immigration Law
  • 56000 refugees from North Africa arrived in Italy in 2011
  • Florence mourns Senegalese traders shot by extremist
  • President of Latvia opposes a referendum on granting the Russian language the status of the second official language
  • Latvian Parliament refused to grant the Russian language the official status
  • Europe is experiencing a major outbreak of measles
  • Facebook launches a suicide prevention system in the U.S.
  • The death toll in Syria exceeded 5000 people
  • Over 1 million people died in the hands of criminals in Brazil since 1985
  • A law on domestic violence came into force in Lithuania
  • Brazilian parliament approved anti-spanking bill
  • Every fifth woman is a victim of sexual assault in the U.S.
  • The number of death sentences and executions reduced in the U.S.

Newspapers write about ...

  • "Rossiyskaya Gazeta" about the reform of Russian health care system
  • "Rossiyskaya Gazeta" about compulsory treatment of drug addicts
  • "Itogi" about mammographic screening
  • "Novye Izvestiya" and "Zerkalo" about suicides in Japan, Greece and Azerbaijan
  • "Komsomolskaya Pravda" about "how to improve the demographic situation”
  • “FINANCE.UA” about the effectiveness of supporting families and single mothers in Ukraine
  • "Novosti" about the strategy of development of the pension system in Russia
  • "Rossiyskaya Gazeta" about the retirement age
  • "Rossiyskaya Gazeta" about the retirement age in Spain
  • "Tv7.md" about the pension issue of Moldovan migrants
  • "Profile" about policy on illegal immigration in Russia
  • "Komsomolskaya Pravda" about migration through the eyes of trade unions
  • "Vzglyad" about migration and labor market in Russia
  • "Rossiyskaya Gazeta" about quota-free foreign professionals
  • "Izvestiya" about the shortage of skilled workers in Moscow
  • "Rossiyskaya Gazeta" and "Kommersant" about the State program on Voluntary Resettlement in Russia of Compatriots Living Abroad
  • "Kommersant" about migration in Russia
  • “Cn.com.ua” about migration in Ukraine
  • "Nezavisimaya gazeta" about labor migration from Belarus
  • "Kyrgyz TUUSU" about migration in Kyrgyzstan
  • "Asia-Plus" about the problems of Tajik migrants in Kazakhstan
  • "Moscow News" about child migration from Central Asia
  • "Vecherniy Bishkek" about repatriation of abandoned children from Moscow to Kyrgyzstan
  • "Asia-Plus" about citizenshiplessness in Central Asia
  • “Gundogar.org” about the Russian language in Central Asia
  • "Rossiyskaya Gazeta" about a possible referendum on the status of the Russian language in Latvia
  • "Chas" about residence permit in Latvia
  • "Novye Izvestiya" about refugees from North Korea
  • "Argumenty i Fakty" about the lessons of Manege Square riots
  • "Novaya Gazeta" about Tkachev’s speech in Krasnodar
  • "Moscow News" about ethnic policy in Russia
  • "Kommersant" about money outflow from Russia
  • "Rossiyskaya Gazeta" about agency labor
  • "Rossiyskaya Gazeta" about HR issues in monocities
  • "Novye Izvestiya" about small and medium-sized cities in Russia
  • "Rossiyskaya Gazeta" about the First Moscow International Urban Forum
  • "Kommersant" about discrimination of fathers
  • "Itogi" about a possible impact of WiFi on reproductive functions
  • "Kommersant" about typhoon victims in the Philippines

Recent publications

  • Ideas of Lomonosov and public health in Pomorye in the XVIII-XXI centuries
  • External causes of death in the Komi Republic in 1990-2009
  • Basics of Medical Statistics
  • Population Statistics
  • Statistics on public health and health care
  • Through the pages of magazines "Preventive Medicine" and "Man and Labour"
  • Contents of “Population & Sociétés”

Profession: Researcher

  • Valery Tishkov is 70
  • A welcome word
  • V. Tishkov. About the National Population Census 2010: clarifications for reactionaries and nationalists and warnings for officials and politicians

From the history of demographic thought

  • Mikhail Lomonosov. "On preservation and reproduction of the Russian people"

Students’ Page

  • "The family and the labor market: the problem of coexistence in a modern society." Joint Seminar of the Laboratory for Studies in Economic Sociology and the Student Society "Demographer”

Satirical column

  • The raid of the Tabeks on Trim. Christmas story.

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