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Current topic: What fertility will there be in Russia?

• Fertility rise in 2007-2010: is there a cause for optimism?
• Measures of the population policy have not led to an increased willingness of Russians to have more children
• Fertility rise has not led to a significant reduction in the expected number of permanently childless women
• Russia's rank in fertility among developed countries
• The second demographic transition and the changing age model of fertility
• Lessons from previous fertility projections carried out in CDHE INP RAS / IDEM HSE
• The main hypotheses of the forecast for 2030

World demographic barometer

• The average number of household members in the OECD countries fell from 2.74 in the mid-1980 to 2.63 in the mid-2000s
• The prevailing households are those where there is a couple
• But in most households there are no minor children
• Young people leave the parental home first, and after a few years try to build their own family
• Older women are more likely to live alone, whereas their male peers live in the family
• By 2030, the number of households of people living alone, single-parent families with one parent and couples without children will increase most

Analytical articles

• Misleading policy messages from the period TFR: Should we stop using it?
• Stimulating fertility and support for families with children in modern Russia
• "Maternity capital: social policies and strategies for families"
• Induced abortion and contraception in the 1990-2000s in the mirror of public and private statistics

Take care of women!

• Russia is learning from the U.S.?

Russian news

• Average life expectancy in Russia exceeded 70 years
• Mortality in Moscow declined by more than 11% in 2011
• Kudrin suggests to urgently solve the question of raising the retirement age
• Raising the retirement age should be carried out gradually
• Deputy Isayev suggests an alternative solution to raising the retirement age
• The State Duma ratified an agreement with Estonia on pensions
• The State Duma may increase minimum wage in 2012 to 6.5 thousand rubles
• Over 1.5 thousand children are registered missing in Russia
• Russia is interested in ratifying the treaty on adoption with the U.S.
• Deputies will keep on working  on creation of the state alimony fund
• Graduates will not be sufficient to fill 25 million jobs
• Medvedev proposes to change the procedure for employment of young mothers
• Putin reported about the decline in the unemployment rate over a year
• Average unemployment in Russia in 2011 amounted to 6.6%
• Putin suggested to tighten the rules for registration of migrants in Russia
• FMS is preparing suggestions to toughen responsibility for migrants
• Putin proposed to oblige workers to take the exam on the Russian language and the fundamentals of law
• Campaign to raise quota for foreign workers in 2013 has been launched in Russia
• FMS issued a reminder to employers who hire foreigners
• Putin proposes to create a state institution on national policy in the Russian Federation
• Uniform development would solve ethnic conflicts in Russia?
• St. Petersburg police officers will be taught tolerant communication
• 4 times more Russians got killed in air crashes in 2011 than in 2010
• In the New Year holidays, Russians turned to narcologists 10% more than in 2011
• In 2011 Russians had measles five times more than in 2010
• About 91% of Russians are dissatisfied with the health care system
• MMI financing gap is almost 100 billion rubles
• Ministry of Health will make a decision about the medicinal insurance in 2014-2015

Eurasian news

• The population of Uzbekistan increased by 435.7 thousand people in a year
• Ukrainians continue to die out
• The population of Belarus continues to decline
• The population of Armenia will be halved in 40 years
• In 2011 in Azerbaijan registered a fertility record in 17 years
• Minsk became a leader in fertility in Belarus
• U.S. give Georgia $ 1 million for the program of addressing residents of Tbilisi
• Real incomes of Uzbekistan’s population increased by 23.1% in a year
• Incomes of Belarusians increased by 0.1% in 2011
• Cost of living in Kyrgyzstan rose by 25.1% in 2011
• Real average monthly wage in Azerbaijan increased by 0.4% in 2011
• Wages in the mining industry of Azerbaijan exceeded the national average by 3.3 times
• Pensions in Azerbaijan increased by 40% in 2011
• Pensions in Belarus will be raised four times in 2012
• Politics of Kazakhstan in increasing pensions and benefits will be more cautious
• President of Uzbekistan demanded that 516 thousand graduates from colleges and high schools be employed
• 84 people claimed 10 jobs in the Ukraine in December
• Unemployment in Kazakhstan was 5.4% in December 2011
• Real unemployment in Azerbaijan decreased by 8.2% in 2011
• More than 37 thousand Kirgiz received Russian citizenship in 2011
• Turkey tightens visa regime for Georgian citizens on its territory
• India will toughen the rules of entry for women from the CIS
• About 6.6 million Ukrainians have gone abroad?
• 56% of young Ukrainians want to leave the country
• Remittances of labor migrants in Tajikistan rose to $ 3 billion
• One forced migrant costs $ 894 to Azerbaijan’s budget annually
• UN welcomes Ukrainian policy towards refugees
• Ashgabat will hold an international conference on refugees
• 41 channels of human trafficking were blocked in Belarus in 2011
• TB and AIDS incidence decreased by nearly 10% in Kazakhstan
• A week of immunization of children against hepatitis B began in Uzbekistan
• The parliament of Kazakhstan ratified the Convention on Maternity Protection
• More than 2 million people consume aryk (stream) water in Kyrgyzstan

World news

• Latvia’s population is aging rapidly
• Experts doubt the veracity of the results of Latvian census
• 24% of Estonian residents have already been counted in the e-census
• Every third working-age person in the world either does not work or lives in poverty
• Two-thirds of Americans have seen the conflict between the rich and the poor
• France will allocate 430 million Euros to increase youth employment
• There are more than 230 thousand unemployed in Lithuania
• In December the U.S. unemployment rate was the lowest in three years – 8.5%
• Unemployment rate in China is 4.1%
• Estonian Ministry of Internal Affairs begins mass control of identity documents
• Naturalization rate in Latvia rose slightly
• EU opened a portal for those who wish to immigrate to Europe
• 900 people were returned to Lithuania last year
• Hundreds of thousands of immigrants in Italy are on the brink of deportation
• Libya asks EU for help in the fight against illegal immigration
• Member of Australian Parliament suggests teaching immigrants to use deodorants
• 17 million Euros are spent on teaching non-Latvians the state language
• Referendum on the Russian language will not solve the problems of the Latvian society?
• The French Senate introduced criminal liability for denying the Armenian Genocide
• WHO estimated the number of illegal abortions
• Is there a growing number of abortions in the U.S.?
• The Taliban was accused in a three-fold increase in polio incidence among the Afghans
• For the first time in history India was able to get rid of polio
• Over 35 percent of the U.S. population suffer from obesity
• One in five Americans in 2011 suffered from mental disorders
• U.S. government decided to defeat Alzheimer's disease by 2025
• American psychiatrists proposed new criteria for autism
• Technique of conceiving children with genetic material from three parents has been developed in the UK
• EU will teach older people to age actively

Newspapers write about ...

• "RBC daily" about demographic problems of Russia's economy
• "Nezavisimaya Gazeta" about Putin's plans on the national question
• "Polit.ru, "Lenta.ru", "Rosbalt", "Grani.ru", "Izvestiya" and "The Christian Science Monitor" about Prime Minister’s initiatives stated in an article
• "Polit.ru" about multiculturalism
• "Kommersant" about the uselessness of the Ministry of Nationalities
• "Ukraїnska pravda" about the national policy of Ukraine
• "Chas" about the "zero option" of Latvian citizenship
• "Moscow news" about the beginning of the quota bid campaign
• "Arguments i fakty" about the illegal migration issue
• "Izvestiya" about fighting against illegal places of residence of migrants
• "Polit.ru", "Forbes.ru", "Kommersant" and "Moscow news" about the criminal responsibility for the organization of illegal migration
• "Izvestiya" about teaching the Russian language to migrant workers
• "Telegraph" about migration from Latvia
• "Arguments i fakty" about the nationality structure of Moscow’s inhabitants
• "Regnum" about the Kurds and the Yezidis in Russia
• "Kommersant-Vlast’" about the crisis of pension systems
• "Novye izvestiya" about Russian poverty
• "Kommersant" about the state program for development of Russian health care
• "Kommersant-Money" about the problems of the MMI system
• "Den’" about the issue of alcohol abuse and mortality in Ukraine
• "Telegraf.by" about child allowances in Belarus
• "Zerkalo" about the situation of children in Azerbaijan
• "Meditsinskaya Gazeta" about reproductive health
• "1tv.ru" about surrogacy
• "Telegraph" and "Business & Baltia" about the first results of the census in Latvia
• "Vedomosti" about the potential population of Moscow
• "Novye Izvestiya" about ultra-orthodox Israelis

Recent publications

• Fertility and family planning in Russia: History and Prospects
• Youth family policy in the Ukraine
• New life in modern Russia: gender studies of everyday life
• Family law and demography
• Global population issues of modernity: Migration and migration policy
• Through the pages of the magazines "Narodonaseleniye" ("Population") and "Vestnik MGU.  Vol.18. Sociology and Political Science"
• Contents of the magazine "International Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health"

Profession: Researcher

• Happy birthday to Tatiana Ivanova!

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