Contents of Demoscope Weekly issue

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Current topic: Emigration from Russia to countries outside the CIS

  • Counting migrants is not a simple matter

  • Particularities of counting international migrants in Russia

  • Immigration statistics vs. emigration statistics

  • The fourth wave of emigration

  • A view from the other side ...

  • The results of emigration of the 2000s

  • Who is leaving Russia now?

  • Conclusion

World demographic barometer

International migration: world profile

  • Most countries have data on country of birth and/or nationality of migrants residing on its territory; data on the number of arriving and leaving is less available

  • The number of international migrants in 2010 reached 214 million people, or 3.1% of the world population

  • The number of migrants who moved from the "South" to the "North" has exceeded the number of internal migrants in the "South"

  • Migration mobility is the highest among 20-year-olds, but international migrants in all regions of the world are older than the population on average

  • Women and men predominate among international migrants settled in more and less developed countries respectively

Analytical articles

  • Russian scientific and technological diaspora in the U.S.

  • The immigration dilemma in Germany

  • Immigration issue in France on the eve of 2012 presidential election

  • Migrants from the former Soviet countries in Italy (results of an empirical sociolinguistic research)

  • Eurasian Union and the future of migration policy in Russia: Anti-discrimination legislation as a condition for a successful Eurasian integration

Take care of women!

  • In which countries is it best to be a mother - 2012

Russian news

  • 78% of Karelia’s population live in urban areas

  • Women in Nizhny Novgorod live longer than men by 6 years on average

  • International Children's Day has been celebrated in Russia

  • Russia joined the Convention on Child Protection

  • Putin urged to raise the social status of family, fatherhood and motherhood

  • Ministry of Labour opposes the equalization of retirement ages for men and women

  • The cost of minimum consumer basket in Russia on average has grown by 3.7% since the beginning of the year

  • Doctors’ salaries will increase to 200% of average earnings in the region by 2018

  • Social security institutions will sign contracts with low-income citizens

  • Nearly 24 thousand families spent their maternity capital on children’s education

  • Liberal Democratic Party proposes to introduce first child maternity capital

  • Depreciation of housing in Russia exceeds 60%

  • Official unemployment in Russia decreased by 6.5% over a month

  • The total number of unemployed in April amounted to 4.4 million people

  • The head of the Ministry of Labour believes there are no preconditions for unemployment rise

  • The biometric data is going to be implemented in the documents of refugees

  • Foreigners will overcome Russian visa formalities easier

  • Most Russians believe that immigrants have a poor knowledge of Russian laws

  • Half of Russians do not mind their children to study with children of migrants

  • Presidential Council for Inter-Ethnic Relations has been created in Russia

  • June 6 is the Russian Language Day

  • Ministry of Health intends to submit to the government an anti-smoking draft bill before November 1

  • Cardiovascular diseases reduce life of Russian men by 11 years

  • More than 30% of children in Russia have a lag in development due to eating disorder

  • More than 300 000 children in Russia vaccinated against polio additionally

  • Ministry of Health has no plans to reduce the number of free medical services in Russia

  • The third mandatory unified state exam will be introduced in Russia

Eurasian news

  • Georgia's population is approaching 4.5 million people

  • Ukraine’s population decline is due to a low standard of living?

  • Belarus is home to 1730.9 thousand children under 18

  • Most Kazakh women marry at the ages from 21 to 25

  • Belarusians started to marry less and divorce more

  • Labor pensions in Belarus will be recalculated from August 1 and from November 1

  • Every third child in Kyrgyzstan lives in poverty

  • Kyrgyz children quit school due to financial problems

  • 75.3% of children attend pre-school institutions in Belarus

  • 90% of children in Tajikistan have no access to pre-school education

  • There are more than 10 000 homeless children in Kyrgyzstan

  • All Ukrainian orphans should benefit from foster care by 2020

  • The number of working-age unemployed in Belarus exceeds 1.4 million

  • Mass layoffs in Belarus are not expected

  • The face of unemployment in Belarus changes features from female to male

  • The unemployment rate in Georgia declined by 1.2% in 2011

  • Azerbaijan shortens the passport delivery period by three times

  • Passports in Kyrgyzstan will be replaced every 15 years

  • The welfare of migrant families in Kyrgyzstan is growing, but the volume of remittances is declining

  • The Tajik government helps migrants to receive their salaries in Russia

  • Verkhovnaya Rada adopted at first reading the draft bill "On the fundamentals of language policy"

  • The number of HIV-infected in Georgia reached 224 people in 2012

  • Life expectancy in Kazakhstan will increase with reduction of smoking

  • The proportion of male smokers in Belarus over 10 years has decreased, but increased for women

  • Belarus enters the list of 18 countries with the highest prevalence of MDR-TB

  • Infant mortality in Belarus has been reducing for 10 years

  • The reason for 22% of child deaths in Kyrgyzstan is malnutrition

  • Maternal mortality rate in Kazakhstan declined by 11.2%

  • The upgraded oncological service created in Kazakhstan

  • 75% of expenses on medical services in Tajikistan are "informal payments"

World news

  • The French government reduces the retirement age by 2 years

  • Australian Prime Minister has rejected a proposal to raise the retirement age to 70 years

  • France will pay 1.1 billion Euros for reducing the retirement age

  • Turkish gynecologists demanded from the authorities to fix the abortion right in the new constitution

  • Estonian census preliminary results have been announced

  • Less than 20% of Lithuanian residents are not ethnic Lithuanians

  • The number of Estonian emigrants exceeds the number of immigrants by nearly 2 times

  • The number of children in Lithuania is decreasing

  • U.S. national debt may reach 200% of GDP by 2037

  • Corruption in the countries of Southern Europe has become one of the causes of the Euro financial crisis

  • Only three months are allotted to save the Euro?

  • The official unemployment rate in Estonia dropped to 6.7%

  • Labor unions in Estonia propose to divide the unemployment insurance equally between employers and employees

  • EU countries agreed on the possibility of introducing border inspection within the Schengen area

  • The number of smoking-related deaths will amount to 8 million per year by 2030

  • Europe has the highest prevalence of smoking among women

  • Venezuelan ban on smoking in public places has given remarkable results

  • The number of suicides among U.S. troops has increased by 18%

  • The number of cancer cases diagnosed each year will exceed 22 million by 2030

  • Mortality of diabetics in the U.S. declined by almost a quarter in seven years

  • The epidemic in northern India has taken lives of 18 children

  • Parents of 8 000 children in Latvia are deprived of parental rights

  • France may allow gay marriages in the next two years

  • The oldest European resident died in France at the age of 114

Newspapers write about ...

  • "Kommersant" and "Moscow News" about the National Council

  • "Le Figaro" about the costs of political correctness

  • "Novye Izvestiya" about changes in the racial structure of the U.S. population

  • "Vedomosti" and "Moscow News" about the attitude towards migrants in Russia

  • "Delfi.lt" about the attitude towards national minorities in Lithuania

  • "Ogonek" about the self-destruction of Germany according to Sarrazin

  • "Lenta.ru" about migration problems in Russia

  • "Haaretz" about Immigration to Israel from Africa

  • "Russkiy Reporter" about illegal migration in China

  • "Moscow News" about non-refoulement of illegal migrants facing tortures at home

  • "Ukraïnsky Tyzhden" about the Russian language in Ukraine

  • "Moscow News" about the children of migrants in the Moscow region

  • "Cursor" about the emigration of repatriates from Israel

  • "Russkaya Germania" about the problem of parasitism on social assistance in Germany

  • "Dengi" about social policy’s targeting

  • "Novye Izvestiya" about the first-born child maternity capital

  • "Nezavisimaya Gazeta" about child insurance on non-payment of alimony due to divorce

  • "Moscow News" about the church and abortion

  • "Novaya Gazeta" about the possibilities of increasing life expectancy in Russia

  • "Novye Izvestiya" about life expectancy of men and women in the U.S.

  • "Vedomosti" about road accident mortality

  • "Novye Izvestiya" about the fate of an anti-smoking draft bill

  • "Nezavisimaya Gazeta" about an anti-alcoholism campaign

  • "Novye Izvestiya" about the problems of disease prevention in Russia

  • "Belorusskie Novosti" about the burden of TB in Belarus

  • "The New York Times" about the new AIDS

  • "The Guardian" about the stoning of women in Sudan

  • "Kommersant" and "Nezavisimaya Gazeta" about the retirement age

  • "Kommersant" about the hazards of pension savings

  • "Slon.Ru" about pensioners’ poverty

  • "Moscow News" about the ranking of regions by poverty

  • "The Guardian" about the European youth as a lost generation

  • "The New York Times" about labor productivity and unemployment

  • "Kommersant" and "Moscow news" about the upcoming changes in the Labor Code

  • "Belorusskie Novosti" about low wages in Belarus

  • "Kommersant" about the attachment of children to schools

  • "Moscow News" about the problems of children in Russia

  • "Novye Izvestiya" about the attitude of Russians towards euthanasia

  • "Dengi" about infanticides

Recent publications

  • Social determinants of health and well-being among young people. Health behaviour in school-aged children (HBSC) study: international report from the 2009/2010 survey

  • Health, United States, 2011

  • Tuberculosis in the Russian Federation, 2010

  • Scenarios for Migration Policy Development in Russia

  • The post-Soviet model of social transformation: the experience of twenty years

  • Through the pages of magazines "Sociological Studies" and "Living standards in the regions of Russia"  

  • Contents of "Migrations Société"

From the archive folders

  • How the real number of military deaths was concealed

Profession: Researcher

  • In memory of V.L. Glazychev

  • 80 years since the birth of Viktor Shukaylo

Students’ Page

  • About the Masters Program in demography

DW Web Site Traffic Statistics in April-May 2012

  • DW Web Site Traffic in May increased

  • DW was read in May in 132 countries

  • The geography of Russian visitors remains stable

  • The most reading DW visitors abroad are in Slovakia

  • Geography of DW visitors from Russia

  • The most reading DW visitor from Russia is in Selyatino

  • Language of our visitors

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

  • We were quoted...

  • The most popular DW pages in May 2012

New ads

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  2. Call for papers. Population Research and Policy Review. Special issue: “New findings from the 2010 census”. Submission deadline: September 1, 2012.

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  4. II International Conference “Regulated migration - a real way of cooperation between Russia and Vietnam in the XXI century”. Moscow, Russia. November 6, 2012. Application deadline: September 15, 2012.

  5. IV International Symposium on "Migration bridge between Russia and Central Asia: current socio-economic development and security issues." Moscow, Russia. November 7, 2012. Application deadline: October 1, 2012.


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