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Current topic: Post-Soviet
Jewish diaspora: the latest assessment
- Jewish emigration from the former Soviet Union since
1970 amounted to nearly 2 million people
- Re-emigration from Israel is not too large
- USSR natives and their descendants make 12% of the
world Jewish population
- New geography of the former Soviet Jewry
Russian
demographic barometer
- Demographic outcome of 2011 (Part I)
- According to the preliminary estimates from Rosstat,
Russia's population at the beginning of 2012 was 143 million people
- Natural population loss in 2011 decreased to 131
thousand, population increase still depends on migration
- Increase in the number of births was slowing down
through 2011, it was only 0.2%
- More marriages and more divorces were registered
in 2011
Analytical
articles
- Return home or labor emigration? Russian-speaking
Israelis in Russia
- Russian-speaking areas abroad: specificity of formation
and the main features
- Lessons from migration: Models and factors of adaptation
of late repatriates in Germany
- Peculiarities of adaptation of immigrants by the
example of late repatriates in Germany
- Russians about Israel
Interactive
poll
- Can Russia’s population really increase to 154 million
by 2050?
Recent
polls
- How long do Russians want to live?
- According to 91% of Russians, the country's health
care system needs changes
- Russians identify themselves as society’s middle
class
- Putin's ideas on immigration policy: public assessment
- On relations between the church and the state
- Are Russians happy?
Russian
news
- The population of the Russian Federation decreased
by 33.3 thousand people in 11 months of 2011
- Life expectancy of Russians increased by 3.7 years
in five years
- In the near future, fertility in Russia is likely
to be reducing
- The level of wages in Russia should not be many times
greater than the growth in labor productivity
- Putin proposes to place pension savings directly
in banks
- Russians in Estonia will be receiving Russian pensions
- 580 million rubles will be allocated to create jobs
for disabled persons
- The official unemployment rate in Russia increased
by 1% in the second half of January
- Unemployment in January concerns 6.3% of the economically
active population
- FMS will begin issuing documents with fingerprints
in the second half of the year
- The order of limitation for taking children abroad
will remain unchanged
- Romodanovsky’s proposal to deprive Russians of registration
for 90 days absence is unconstitutional
- Putin calls for criminal liability for the owners
of the so-called rubber flats
- Most of the foreigners arriving in Russia are CIS
citizens
- Putin ordered FMS to improve effectiveness of the
compatriots resettlement program
- Regions received 3.8 billion rubles at the expense
of labor patents issued to migrants
- Putin proposed to create centers of pre-migration
training
- Program on teaching Russian to migrants will be running
in 2 years
- Philologists evaluated the introduction of the Russian
language exam for migrants
- Hiring workers without permits must become a criminal
offence?
- Putin proposed to prohibit the entry to migration
law violators for 5-10 years
- FMS proposes to send illegal migrants to work
- Putin opposed the creation of ethnic enclaves for
migrant workers
- 30% of cancer patients in Russia die within the first
year after establishing diagnosis
- Cancer mortality in Russia dropped by 1% in 11 months
of 2011
- Cancer mortality among Russian men decreased from
200 to 180 cases per 100000 in 10 years
- The number of deaths in fires reduced by 1000 in
2011
- 64 people became victims of frost in Russia in January
- About 2.5 million Russians turned to health centers
in 2011
- High-tech help is mostly needed by Russians with
cardiovascular diseases
- Quotas on high-tech medical care in Russia are fewer
than patients
- Ministry of Health will use help from benefactors
in the treatment of rare diseases
- Russian women should be entitled to services of surrogate
mothers
- Doctors and activists asked the president to provide
pain relief for dying patients
Eurasian
news
- The population of Armenia in 2011 amounted to 3274300
people
- The population of Karabakh in 2011 increased by 1735
people
- The population of Transnistria in 2011 decreased
by 46000 people
- The population of Minsk on January 1, 2012 amounted
to 1885.1 thousand people
- The natural population decline in Belarus continues
to grow
- By 2050 one third of Moldova’s population will be
retired
- After 2020 Kazakhstan will face shortage in working-age
citizens
- About one million Kyrgyz people lack food supply
- All social payments in Ukraine will be clearly linked
to the budget capacities
- Child allowances in Belarus rose by 23% in February
- In Kyrgyzstan, in 2012, will increase the amount
of pension
- Pension payments in Belarus increase since February
- The amount of remittances to Moldova in 2011 rose
by almost 20%
- Kyrgyzstan ranks 126th by human development
index
- Kyrgyzstan has a growing number of homeless children
- The bodies of state statistics in Belarus are ready
to carry out the employment survey
- Belarus has approved the state program to promote
employment
- Belarus will support unemployed families in their
relocation from big cities
- 600 Ukrainian citizens applied for legalization in
Poland
- More than 10 thousand foreigners were expelled from
Azerbaijan in 2011
- Tajikistan wants to count migrants
- Tajik migrant workers will be receiving migrant cards
in Dushanbe
- Tajik participants of the pilot project on training
of migrant workers have passed the first exam
- Kyrgyz parliament has criticized the work of Kyrgyz
embassy in Russia
- Kazakhstan will be concerned about the adaptation
of oralmans
- 1196 HIV-infected are found in Belarus in 2011
- The number of suicides in Armenia decreased by 13%
- The highest growth of the number of road accidents
in the history of Armenia was recorded in 2011
- More than 2 thousand people were victims of road
accidents in Uzbekistan in 2011
- Over 2.7 thousand people were killed in road accidents
in Kazakhstan in 2011
- Infant mortality in Kazakhstan reduced by nearly
10% in 2011
- Over the past 10 years Ukraine has not recorded a
single case of death of a child after vaccination
- In Belarus one woman dies from cervical cancer daily
- More than a hundred people have been victims of severe
frosts in Ukraine
World
news
- Japan's population will decrease by 30% by 2060
- There are more foreign residents in Italy
- The number of emigrants from Lithuania in 2011 is
equal to the population of an average city
- More than 70000 Estonian citizens live and work abroad
- E-census of population and real estate in Estonia
is over with a new world record
- Population policy in China will lead to a slower
economic growth
- Somalia famine has ended
- Global youth unemployment rate is 12.6%
- European Commission will direct its efforts to combat
youth unemployment
- In Spain, unemployment has exceeded 5 million people
- Official unemployment in Estonia is 7.7%
- Over a thousand of Latvians support the automatic
granting of citizenship to non-citizens
- Dutch Government bans wearing burqa in public places
- French senate backs ban on denial of Armenia genocide
- Last year was the bloodiest for Afghanistan’s population
- 98000 people were killed in the Bosnian war
- Heart attack death rate in Britain decreased by 2
times in 10 years
- The measles incidence in the world has declined
- Does malaria mortality exceed twice the WHO data?
- WHO will eradicate 10 tropical diseases by 2020
- New flu strain incidence is growing in Mexico
- More than 230 people were killed on the roads of
Lithuania in 2011
- Frosts in Europe killed 163 people
- In the U.S., the vaccine against cervical cancer
has become mandatory for boys
- American scientists have discovered a contagious
nature of obesity
- Nutritionists suggest a sugar tax
Newspapers
write about ...
- "Nezavisimaya gazeta" about the global
problems of mankind
- "Komsomolskaya pravda" about the
necessity to increase Russia’s population to 154 million
- "Kommersant" about demography and growth
social expenses
- "Nezavisimaya gazeta" about a new idea
of a way out of the pension crisis
- "Ogonek" about the aging resource
- "Le Monde", "Vzglyad" and "Novye
izvestiya" about the growth in life expectancy in Russia
- "Kommersant", "Rossiyskaya gazeta",
"Radiovesti.ru" and "Novaya gazeta" about
new methodes to combat illegal migration
- "Moscow News" about tracing "lost"
Russians
- "Dengi" about spatial mobility and the
cost of lack of freedom of movement
- "Slovo.kg" about the Eurasian Union and
migration policy
- "Gazeta.ru" about the election agenda and
migration in the U.S.
- "Slon.Ru" about the consequences of brain
drain
- "Kommersant" about the concept of strengthening
the Russian nation
- "Vzglyad" about national policy of Russia
and its institutional facilities
- "Novye izvestiya" about unemployment in
the EU
- "Nezavisimaya gazeta" about the shift of
employment in Russian economy
- "Novye izvestiya" about the problems of
youth employment
- "Novye izvestiya" about the minimum wage
and poverty
- "Deutsche Welle" about the consequences
of growth of wages in China
- "Moscow News" about the minimum amount
of alimony
- "Moscow News" about the opening of women's
crisis centers under the auspices of Russain Orthodox Church
- "Belarus’ segodnya" about a possible surge
in births in China in year of the dragon
- "Novopol.ru" about "maternity tourism"
from China to Hong Kong
- "Paruskg.info" about the new code of laws
"on Marriage" in Kazakhstan
- "Gorod.lv" about maternity leave in the
Baltic States
- "Rossiyskaya gazeta" about new criteria
for treatment of newborns
- "Novye izvestiya" about discrimination
against HIV carriers
- "BBC" about the 100th anniversary of the
fight against drug trade
- "Novye izvestiya" about fashionable baby
names
Recent
publications
- Between Auschwitz and Babiy Yar. Reflections and
investigations of the disaster
- Social diseases of modern Russia
- How to describe the statistics in medicine?
- The impact of labor migration on children of migrants
abandoned in Tajikistan
- Health care in Russia. 2011
- Through the pages of magazines "Voprosy statistiki"
("Statistical Issues") and "Uroven’ zhizni naseleniya
regionov Rossii" ("Living standards in the regions of
Russia")
- Contents of "Journal of Population Economics"
Profession:
Researcher
- 75 years since the birth of Rudolf Tatevosov
Students’
Page
- Olympiads for admission to Masters in Demography
From
the history of demographic thought
- Tommaso Campanella. Excerpts from “The City of the
Sun"
New
in the Reading Room
- R. Tatevosov. "A study of spatial patterns of
migration"
Satirical
column
- Eurasian demographic diwan
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