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Current topic: A secular age?

• Multicolored variety of religions on the world map
  
• A black continent becoming green
  
• America: the contrast between north and south
  
• Asia: the cradle of religions in a changing world
  
• Europe: the heart of Christianity facing secularization and Islamization
  
• Russia: Problems of revival of the Orthodox confession in the multi-confessional state

Russian demographic barometer

Demographic outcome of 2011 (Part III)

• Net migration in Russia in 2011 amounted to 320000 people according to the new rules of counting and 107000 people counted the old way
  
• The highest net migration for the years 2003-2011 was between Russia and Uzbekistan - 274000 people
  
• The number of migrants who changed their residence within the borders of Russia in 2011, according to the new rules of counting exceeded 3 million and a million less counted the old way
  
• The population of all Russia's subjects of the Russian Federation in 2011 continued to grow due to migratory exchange with the CIS countries, but reduced in most of them as a result of migratory exchange with other regions of Russia
  
• At the end of the third quarter of 2011 1032 thousand foreign citizens had work permits in Russia

Analytical articles

• Tolerance and interconfessional dialogue
  
• Muslims and Islam in West Europe
  
• Fans and fanatics
  
• "Fear not, little flock." An estimate of the number of Orthodox believers (case study in the Ryazan region)
  
• The phenomenon of new religious movements
  
• The destruction of rural communities in Russia
  
• I++: the man, the city, the network

Russian news

• There are 12 megacities in Russia
  
• St. Petersburg is still the fourth most populous city in Europe
  
• Sverdlovsk region ranks 5th in Russia in terms of population
  
• The number of believers in Russia increased by 14% in recent years
  
• The average salary in Russia in 2020 should grow to 40000 rubles
  
• The average monthly salary of civil servants in 2011 amounted to 62.6 thousand rubles
  
• Putin confirmed that raising the retirement age in Russia was not planned
  
• Pensions in Russia should reach 40% of salary
  
• Basic part of the pension of working pensioners will be increased annually
  
• Russians transferred more than 4 billion rubles voluntarily to the expense of future pensions
  
• Ministry of Health still opposes the decline of insurance contributions
  
• The majority of Russian orphanages will be closed down in the coming years
  
• Orphaned children in Russia will be receiving housing from a special fund
  
• Russia may join the Convention on parental responsibilities
  
• The Government will discuss the ratification of the agreement on adoption with the U.S.
  
• Almost 99% of children missing in Russia get found in the end
  
• Passports with fingerprints will be issued in 2013
  
• FMS issued almost 10000 passports on the election day
  
• Almost 70 thousand passports issued to citizens in the USSR are left to be replaced in Russia
  
• Rogozin suggested to simplify the procedure of obtaining citizenship for Russians abroad
  
• 5 billion rubles will be invested in solving the problems of internally displaced persons
  
• Far East entrepreneurs ask for intensifying the migration flow
  
• The situation with illegal migrants in Moscow has stabilized
  
• Russians under 21 may be banned from buying alcohol
  
• Ministry of Health published a list of rare diseases
  
• A register of patients with rare diseases will be formed in Russia
  
• The epidemiological situation with measles has become more complicated
  
• Shortage of medicines for children with cancer was explained to be caused by technical problems
  
• Ministry of Health summarized the national project "Health" since 2007
  
• The State Duma will examine 12 bills of the Ministry of Health in 2012
  
• Putin instructed to speed up ratification of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
  
• The State Duma is going to lower the age of criminal responsibility to 12 years

Eurasian news

• The main priority in the development of Belarus is to ensure the demographic security
  
• There are 1152 women for 1000 men in Belarus
  
• Women constitute 28% of civil servants and 16% of entrepreneurs in Azerbaijan
  
• Marriage and divorces become less frequent in Moldova
  
• Azerbaijan introduced an online marriage procedure
  
• The Ukrainian government approved the concept of ethno-national policy
  
• 35.8% of Armenia's population lives below the poverty line
  
• The subsistence minimum in Kazakhstan rose by 0.9% in February
  
• Ukraine's president instructed to provide recalculation of pensions from May 1
  
• The Moldovan government will index all types of pensions by 9.6%
  
• $ 600 for each third and $ 1200 for each fourth child will be paid in Georgia
  
• Benefits for child care in Kazakhstan can be formalized within a week
  
• Ukraine proposes to return the tax on childlessness
  
• Uzbekistan has adopted the state program "Year of the Family"
  
• The volume of remittances to Moldova in January reached 81.09 million dollars
  
• Moscow is seeking to a common labor market with the countries of the Commonwealth
  
• Citizens of Georgia will be given vouchers for professional retraining
  
• The unemployment rate fell in Moldova
  
• There's lack of physicians and an abundance of accountants in the labor market of Belarus
  
• The ILO experts discovered prohibited child labor in Kazakhstan
  
• Kyrgyzstan would like to restore a unified economic space and join the EurAsEC
  
• Moldova approved additional measures to implement the Action Plan Moldova - EU to liberalize visa regime
  
• Georgia has canceled visa requirements for Russians
  
• Kyrgyzstan is a home to 90000 illegal Chinese citizens
  
• Karabakh conflict and the closed border with Turkey are objective causes of emigration from Armenia?
  
• Only 20% of Kyrgyz workers in Russia have work permits
  
• Qatar intends to attract Kyrgyz citizens to its labor market
  
• Tajikistan intends to establish a fund of support for migrant workers at the expense of the migrants themselves
  
• Over 100 cases of trafficking of Tajik citizens abroad were registered in 2011
  
• AIDS and tuberculosis epidemics in Ukraine remain a threat to national security
  
• Belarus is a home to at least than 50000 drug users
  
• Moldova ranks 103rd in the world in terms of mortality of children under 5
  
• One of the main causes of maternal and child mortality in Kyrgyzstan is lack of high-tech?
  
• More than 35000 Armenian citizens are suffering from periodic illness
  
• Belarus proposed to introduce a fee for attending health clinics

World news

• The only way to protect children in urban areas is to eliminate poverty
  
• U.S. plan to supply North Korea 25 thousand tons of food aid per month
  
• The Latvian government decided to raise the retirement age to 65 years
  
• Greece decided to cut budget expenses on medical care and medications
  
• The lowest salary in Israel is in the area of catering
  
• Danish government amends the Law on Gender Equality
  
• The working year in Lithuania lasts 365 days for men and 405 days for women
  
• COE recommends Latvia to give non-citizens the right to elect local authorities
  
• Sarkozy proposes to halve the annual inflow of immigrants to France
  
• The number of refugees in Afghanistan has reached 500 thousand people
  
• Thousands of Syrian refugees flee to Lebanon
  
• The new bill on the Armenian genocide will not be submitted to the French Parliament until June
  
• The CEC of Latvia approved the results of the referendum on the status of the Russian language
  
• 1.3 million Europeans will die from cancer in 2012
  
• WHO prevented 910000 deaths from tuberculosis in six years
  
• HIV prevalence among drug users in the U.S. reduced by half in fifteen years
  
• British hospitals will provide treatment to HIV-positive foreigners free of charge
  
• The requirement of putting graphic images on cigarette packs declared unlawful in the U.S.
  
• World statistics on cholera turned out to be lowered by several times
  
• India managed to stop the spread of polio
  
• The Netherlands created mobile euthanasia service
  
• More than 1.3 thousand people died from the effects of last year's earthquake in Japan
  
• Unprecedented snowfalls in Japan killed 115 people
  
• 13000 people in Australia left their homes because of flooding
  
• The oldest Italian resident died at 111
  
• Maryland may join the list of states where gay marriage is legalized

Newspapers write about ...

• "RBC" about demography and economy in the future
  
• "Slon.ru" about the middle class and the world economy
  
• "Kommersant" about the Christians of the East
  
• "Delfi" about languages in Europe
  
• "Economicheskie izvestiya" about Ukraine's population problems
  
• "Rossiyskaya Gazeta - Weekly" about demographic and social success of Russia
  
• "Rossiyskaya Gazeta" and "Kommersant" about demographic success of Moscow
  
• "Gazeta" about demographic projections and kindergartens
  
• "Novye izvestiya" about the crisis of the social contract in Russia
  
• "Izvestiya" about Russian pensions
  
• "Telegraph" about the retirement age in Latvia
  
• "Moscow News" about migration and Sarkozy before the election
  
• "Izvestiya" about migrants and diseases
  
• "Zerkalo nedeli" about the myths of migration in Ukraine
  
• "Slon.ru" about migration in countries of the EEA
  
• "Itogi" and "Sobesednik" about migrants in Russia
  
• "Moscow News" about employers cheating migrants
  
• "Nezavisimaya Gazeta" about the Filipino migrants
  
• "Vecherniy Bishkek" and "Vzglyad" about the integration of migrants in Russia
  
• "Rossiyskaya Gazeta" about the resettlement of compatriots
  
• "Novye izvestiya" about financing private schools and kindergartens
  
• "Kommersant" about the tax on childlessness in Ukraine
  
• "Nezavisimaya Gazeta" about abortion policies
  
• "Moscow News" about Russian Orthodox Church and biomedical cell technologies
  
• "Radiovesti.ru" about the possible fate of the Ministry of Health
  
• "Vzglyad" about deaths in road accidents
  
• "Moldavskie Vedomosti" about life expectancy and health of Moldova's population
  
• "Zerkalo" about infant mortality in Azerbaijan
  
• "Russkaya Germania" about Internet addiction
  
• "Profile" about teenage suicides
  
• "Profile" about criminal responsibility from 12 years
  
• "Novye Izvestiya" about toughening responsibility for drug-related crimes
  
• "Parlamentskaya Gazeta" about the problems of an anti-smoking campaign
  
• "Vlast'" about reproductive and sexual health
  
• "Vedomosti" about Moscow as a global city
  
• "Kommersant" about the ultra-Orthodox Israeli
  
• "Paruskg.info" about the problems with the census of Kyrgyzstan
  
• "Courier.co.il" about a possible tax on sex
  
• "Slon.ru" about women and men

Recent publications

• Demographic Yearbook 2009-2010
  
• Family in Russia and Moscow at the beginning of the XXI century
  
• Demography and socio-economic problems of population
  
• Security, Territory, Population
  
• Mechanisms of regulation of labor migration in developed countries
  
• Through the pages of magazines "Demografіya i sotsіalnaya ekonomіka" and "Obozrevatel'"
  
• Contents of "Demography"

Profession: Researcher

• 130 years since the birth of Antonin Bogac

From the history of demographic thought

• Thomas More. Excerpts from "Utopia"

Satirical column

• Great country of migration through the eyes of an expert

DW Web Site Traffic Statistics in December 2011 - January 2012

• DW Web Site Traffic in January reduced
  
• DW was read in December in 125 countries
  
• The geography of Russian visitors has narrowed
  
• The most reading DW visitors abroad are in Antigua & Barbuda
  
• Geography of DW visitors from Russia
  
• The most reading DW visitor from Russia is in Skhodnya
  
• Language of our visitors
  
• The rating of our web site in the Science category of OpenStat has risen
  
• We were quoted...
  
• The most popular pages of DW in January 2012

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