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Current topic: Compression of the social geo-space: between reality and utopia

• Space: a gift or a curse?

• Communication compression - convergence

• Location compression - constringency

• Communication and location compression - what's the connection?

• "Viscosity" of the emptying Russian territory

• Conclusion

World demographic barometer

Urban and rural areas in the modern world according to UN

• 51% of world's population live in urban areas, 49% in rural areas

• 40% of world’s economically active population are involved in agriculture

• 35% of world's urban population live in slums, 24% without proper sanitation

• Availability of agricultural land for rural population in developing countries is almost 20 times lower than in developed countries, while the consumption of chemical fertilizers is 8.5 times higher

• 38% of world’s urban population in 2010 lived in agglomerations with at least 1 million inhabitants

Analytical articles

• Compression and polarization of rural space in Russia

• Compression of developed extra-urban space in Russia is a reality, not an illusion

• Countryside in Finland compared to Russia's Near North: the role of natural, ethno-socio-cultural and economic factors

• The method of youth migration study based on the social network data: Tomsk State University as a "center of production and distribution" of human capital (according to the social network VKontakte)

• The transformation of rural population density of Central Chernozem Region (1959-2008)

Recent polls

• Russians do not want an increase in retirement age

• How many Russians want to emigrate?

• Why do they leave Russia? Potential emigrants’ point of view

• Russians about Russian intelligentsia

• 70% of Russians have never been abroad

• Sex, family and happiness

Russian news

• More than 80% of the Moscow region population are urban residents

• More than 60% of Russians are planning to live at least 70 years

• Ugra residents live longer than average Russians

• The concept of pension system development until 2050 has been elaborated

• Ministry of Health doesn’t see any reason to raise the retirement age

• Ministry of Health proposes to develop corporate pension programs

• Russian Pension Fund calculated pensions and benefits for 57 million people

• Pensions will rise by 30% before 2014

• The number of poor in Russia increased to 18.1 million in 2011

• Starting from 2013 low-income citizens will be supported on the basis of social contracts

• The number of happy Russians has increased by 3 times since the beginning of the millennium

• More than 30 million Russians use social networks

• The government plans to prohibit the dismissal of fathers of large families

• Representative office of FMS may appear in Chisinau

• Russia increases the quota of work permits for migrants

• The problems of migrants’ families preservation have been discussed in Moscow

• More than 18000 HIV-infected died in Russia in 2011

• 14 children committed suicide in St. Petersburg within a year

• State Duma proposed to increase the cost of health insurance for smokers and drinkers

• About 1.5 thousand cases of measles were registered in Russia in 2012

• There were 20 measles outbreaks in Russian hospitals in January-February

• Onishchenko threatens to close the border with Ukraine in case of cholera epidemic

• More than 10000 people died at work in Russia in 2011

• Ministry of Health has approved the issuance of sickness certificates for 15 days

• A child was left in the baby box for the first time in Krasnodar

Eurasian news

• Belarus is ranked 87th in the world in terms of population

• The natural increase of Azerbaijan’s population has grown by 40% over the last 10 years

• Three-quarters of Belarus’ population are urban citizens

• An average urban citizen in Belarus is by 5.7 years younger than a villager

• There are 1152 women for 1000 men in Belarus

• There are more women than men in Azerbaijan

• The difference in life expectancy between men and women in Belarus is 12 years

• Belarusian men of working age are 4.6 times more likely to die than women

• By the end of 2020 the proportion of older people in Kazakhstan may reach 7.4%

• Non-marital fertility in Belarus is going down

• The marriageable age for Ukrainian girls has been raised to 18 years

• Armenian citizens are mostly concerned about unemployment and social problems

• Armenia became one of the three world’s "most suffering" countries

• Kyrgyzstan is ranked 105th in the world in terms of happiness

• There are 7 million unemployed in Ukraine?

• The registered unemployment in Belarus was 0.7% on April 1

• Unemployment benefits in Azerbaijan grew by 2.2% in March

• 30000 Russians have crossed the Georgian border after the introduction of visa-free regime

• More than half a million people have left Kazakhstan for permanent residence over the last 10 years

• 130000 people in Belarus are banned from travelling abroad

• More than half a million migrants from Tajikistan go to Russia each year

• About 17000 migrants from Turkmenistan work in Russia

• Migrant workers from Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and Ukraine transferred home from Russia $ 10 billion in 2011

• Money transfers to Georgia rose by 5.2% in March

• Armenia showed concern for the preservation of the cultures of ethnic minorities

• 321 HIV-infected were registered in Belarus in 2012

• From 5 to 10 children die in Azerbaijan every day

• Maternal mortality in Azerbaijan reduced by half over the last five years

• Tens of thousands of women in Uzbekistan forcefully sterilized?

• More than 1000 people suffer from hemophilia in Azerbaijan

• The concept of palliative care will appear in the Belarusian law on health care

World news

• Over the past 60 years life expectancy in the world has increased by almost 21.6 years

• China plans to stabilize the population at around 1.39 billion people

• Wealthy Chinese women use Hong Kong to give birth to a second child

• Beijing is preparing for the invasion of "dragon children"

• In Lithuania there’s a higher demand for Russian spouses

• Sweden is the leader among EU countries in terms of urbanization rates

• Latvia plans a referendum on raising the retirement age

• U.S. will allocate $ 482 million for the UN refugees agency’s operations

• U.S. allocated $ 25 million to help Syria

• Mali faces a humanitarian catastrophe

• A list of the largest cities for the rich has been compiled

• Millions of Americans may lose their housing because of debts on mortgages

• British women increasingly pin their hopes for the future on their own careers

• Lithuania cannot ascertain a place of residence for more than 3000 children

• The unemployment rate in Lithuania is 11.6%

• Lithuanian residents consider unemployment their main problem

• Latvia is collecting signatures for an amendment to the Citizenship Act

• Israel is going to get rid of infiltrants

• 53% of Latvians are ready to support ethnic discrimination

• The number of mentally retarded in the world will double by 2030

• WHO will help to achieve positive results in solving the problem of healthy lifestyles and active aging

• Brazil allowed abortions for fetuses lacking brains

• In Romania abortion will only be done after the psychologist’s conclusion

• Nearly half of Brazilians are overweight

• French doctors recommend to be careful with the tan

Newspapers write about ...

• "Opec.ru" about cities and economy

• "Novaya Gazeta" about the urban revolution

• "Moscow News" about a possible merger of Moscow and Moscow region

• "Nezavisimaya Gazeta" about the development of the new Moscow

• "Profile" about housing construction in Moscow and Moscow region

• "Slon.ru" about Moscow metropolitan area

• "Ogonek" about the proposal to transfer Moscow to Siberia

• "Itogi" and "Krasnoyarskiy Rabochiy" about a new megacity

• "The Financial Times" about migration and urbanization

• "Liter.kz" about urbanization in Kazakhstan

• "Expert-Kazakhstan" about development of Astana

• "Vzglyad" about deurbanization of manor style

• "Kommersant", "Vzglyad", "Moscow News", "Slon.ru", "Novye Izvestiya" and "Vedomosti" about the pension system reform

• "Corriere della Sera" about the consequences of increased life expectancy for social systems

• "Moscow News" about the abolition of employment record books

• "Moscow News" about the contingent labor

• "US News and World Report" about women's employment and unemployment

• "Novaya Gazeta" about the migration policy of Russia

• "Rossiyskaya Gazeta" about the organized selection of migrants

• "Vzglyad" about the quota for foreign workers from new EU countries in Switzerland

• "Le Point" and "Russian Germany" about EU borders and the Schengen zone

• "Gundogar.org" about the Turkmen law "On Migration"

• "Obozrevatel.com" about immigration to Ukraine

• "The New Times" about problems of the Russian Caucasus

• "Slon.ru" about economic growth and mortality

• "Kommentarii" about road deaths in Ukraine

• "Meditsinskaya Gazeta" about HIV in Russia

• "Moscow News" about testing for drugs in schools

• "Novye Izvestiya" about Russia's anti-smoking law

• "The New Times" about genetics and medicine

• "Meditsinskaya Gazeta" about Russian Orthodox Church, abortions and cell technologies

• "Telegraph" about fertility and IVF in Latvia

• "BBCRussian.com" about sterilization of women in Uzbekistan

• "Rossiyskaya Gazeta" about fertility in the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous District and Moscow

• "Zerkalo" about marriages and divorces in Azerbaijan

• "Rossiyskaya Gazeta" about 2010 census in the Caucasus

• "Gosudarstvennoe informatsionnoe agentstvo Turkmenistana" about the upcoming census in Turkmenistan

• "Gorod.lv" about names the Latvian style

Recent publications

• Compression of the socio-economic space: new in the theory of regional development and the practice of its state regulation

• Educational geodemography of Russia

• Russian colonization from the ancient times to the beginning of XX century

• Population economics

• Labor migration to Russia: how to move further

• Through the pages of magazines "Population" and "Journal of Social Policy Studies"

• Contents of "Population and Environment"  

Profession: Researcher

• Happy birthday to Valentina Bodrova

• 120 years since the birth of Avdei Gozulov

• A brief sketch of research and social activities

• A.Gozulov, N.Nevskaya. New trends in reproduction and structure of the Soviet Union population

DW Web Site Traffic Statistics in February-March 2012

• DW Web Site Traffic in March continued to grow

• DW was read in March in 125 countries

• The geography of Russian visitors has expanded

• The most reading DW visitors abroad are in Montenegro

• Geography of DW visitors from Russia

• The most reading DW visitor from Russia is in Zarinsk

• Language of our visitors

• Which DW issues attract our visitors?

• The rating of our web site in the Science category of OpenStat has risen

• We were quoted...

• The most popular DW pages in March 2012

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