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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

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• About the Masters Program in demography

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