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Current topic:  Suicides in Russia: case study of Bashkortostan

• Distressing leadership of Russia

• Suicides in Bashkortostan

• How suicides can be studied

• Attitude to suicides

• Profile of self-murder

• Potential of suicide intents

• Who can be asked for support?

• Why and how people go to their account

• Conclusions

• Supplement. Death rate of population of the subjects of Russian Federation from   suicides in 2005-2009

Russian demographic barometer:Demographic results of the first half-year 2012 (part II)

• In the first half of 2012 the number of the deceased and the crude death-rate continued their reduction

• In January-July, 2012 there was an improvement in mortality from circulatory diseases and from external causes but tumor mortality and mortality from diseases of digestive system has rather increased

• In January-July, 2012 mortality from external causes continued to reduce but traffic accident mortality increased on 5 %

• Among those who in 2011 died of infectious and parasitic deceases  48 % failed to reach the age of 40 years, and almost 48 % of those who died of external causes failed to reach the age of 45 years

• In January-July, 2012 because of revision of live birth criteria, the rate of infant mortality increased and made 8,6 ‰

Analytical articles

• World Suicide Prevention Day

• Problem of suicides in Russia and in the World

• Social and economic losses caused by suicide mortality

• Fluctuations of suicidal behavior of population of Komi Republic

Russian news

• 1. By 2015 population of Russian Federation will increase on 500000 due to  migrants
• 2. The 5-million inhabitant of St.-Petersburg will be born in coming days
• 3. Since the start of the year population of Chukotka has increased only  by 35 persons
• 4. Will the Ulyanovsk Region completely settle the population problem by the year of 2016?
• 5. The Protocol for strengthening family values has been signed in the course of demographic summit in the City of Ulyanovsk
• 6. The oldest inhabitant of Russia died in Dagestan in 123^rd year of life
• 7. Russia takes the seventh place in the world per number of well educated persons
• 8. Medvedev affirmed that education in Russian Federation as before will be free
• 9. Ms. Matvienko chaired the Council of National Strategy for Action on Children
• 10. Pavel Astakhov called for granting orphans the status of “Presidential Children”
• 11. Medvedev specified priority measures for creation accessible environment for disabled persons
• 12. By 2016 20 % of schools must be accessible to disabled persons
• 13. Ms. Matvienko suggested to set up a Fund of temporary assistance to single mothers
• 14. It is not reasonable to raise the age of retirement in Russia  
• 15. The Pension reform will start only after discussion
• 16. The Pension reform in Russia probably starts untimely?
• 17. Reorganization of the pension system will not lead to loss of money of pensioners
• 18. Can new formula for calculation pensions reduce payments?
• 19. More than 615 thousand Russians applied to the Pension Fund to receive a cumulative part of their pension
• 20. The unemployment rate in Russian Federation will rise
• 21. Russian passports to be replaced with chip cards
• 22. The Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs will study the migratory intentions of compatriots residing abroad
• 23. In 2013 Russia will need 1,7 million labour migrants
• 24. The Head of the Federal Migration Service called business community to be more responsible as regards migrants
• 25. Deputies from St.-Petersburg suggested to tighten the federal migratory legislation
• 26. More than 200 foreigners have been expelled from Russia after the spot check of the Federal Migration Service
• 27. Expatriates should not take examinations in Russian language
• 28. In buses in St.-Petersburg one should teach migrants “speak Russian well”
• 29. Russians are dying because of high affordability of alcohol

Eurasian news

• 1. For June population of Ukraine reduced by 4 thousand persons
• 2. Within six months population of Kazakhstan increased by 0,8 %
• 3. Population of the Capital City of Kazakhstan has exceeded 763 thousand persons
• 4. The government of Ukraine is planning to take the census in 2012
• 5. Poverty level in Kirghizia reduced by 19 %
• 6. GDP growth in Kirghizia in 2013 will make 8 %
• 7. Average income of Kazakhstanis increased almost by 10 %
• 8. In July the average monthly salary in Kazakhstan made $712
• 9. Government of Belarus is giving promises that in 2012 the average salary will make $500
• 10. Ukraine refused to meet  IMF requirements
• 11. Parliamentarians of Kazakhstan are appealing for increasing the amount of living wage
• 12. Kazakhstan will give support that specialists who are  coming to work in a countryside
• 13. In September the number of unemployed in Ukraine reduced by 11 thousand
• 14. Tajikistan should find its own way for settling the problem of labour migration
• 15. Tajikistan will train migrants for needs of Belarus
• 16. The Tajik ombudsman visited the city of Yekaterinburg
• 17. Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and Ukraine  are leaders in volume of remittances  from Russia
• 18. A camp of illegal migrants has been dismantled In Belarus at the boundary of EU
• 19. The status of regional language has been awarded to the Russian language in eight regions of Ukraine
• 20. The Moldavian diaspora will be allowed to take part in absent voting
• 21. 225 persons died of AIDS in Kirghizia in 2012
• 22. Now any cigarette advertising In Ukraine is above the law
• 23. In Kirghizia almost one half of children with a cardiac anomaly die
• 24.In Kazakhstan a crime wave at the rate of 57 % has been fixed

World news

• 1. The UN General Assembly gave an official definition of the term "human security"
• 2. There are about 775 million illiterate persons in the world
• 3. For the first time the number of Japanese older than one hundred years exceeded 50 thousand persons
• 4. A record number of representatives of different nationalities is residing in Estonia
• 5. In Lithuania the number of voters is disastrously reducing
• 6. Democratic People's Republic of Korea refused to accept foodstuffs from South Korea
• 7. Germany will increase the amount of humanitarian assistance to Syrian refugees to 24 million Euro
• 8. Living standards in USA have been measured by “sushinomics”
• 9. More than one half of all private property in Germany is concentrated in hands of 10 % of the most wealthy German households
• 10. There is a ceiling unemployment in France from the beginning of the century
• 11. At the year-end 2012 unemployment in Estonia will be preserved at the level of 10,8 %
• 12. In August more than 11 thousand inhabitants of Latvia lost their status of unemployed person
• 13. 51 % of economically active Latvians are against "zero option" of citizenship
• 14. OSCE took the part of children of permanent alien residents in Latvia
• 15. 100 thousand Copts would like to emigrate in USA
• 16. The Latvian politicians are  discussing necessity of in-migration  in the country
• 17. Irish Latvians are applying for equating them with repatriates
• 18. The Ministry of Economic Affairs of Latvia is ready to paying benefits to emigrants who are coming back
• 19. The number of Syrian refugees on territory of Turkey exceeds 80 thousand persons
• 20. The British authorities hires a private company for "catching" aliens
• 21. In Czech Republic the number of those who died from methanol poisoning  is rising
• 22. 95 % of senior pupils in Latvia drank alcohol
• 23. Incidence rate for drug-resistant tuberculosis in the world
• 24.The child mortality rate in the world for the last 20 years fell by half
• 25.West Nile encephalitis in USA caused a death toll of 118 persons
• 26. More than 30 persons fell victims of the Ebola fever in the Republic of Congo  
• 27. Earthquake in China caused a death toll of 80
• 28. Most women in Afghanistan are excusing family violence
• 29. Intelligence but not appearance or cooking more than ever attracts modern men in women

From the archive folders

• 75 years after passing of sentence to the Census of Population in 1937
• Mark Tolz. The Census sent into oblivion

Newspapers write about ...

• “Novaya Gazeta” about Russian population

• “Gazeta.ru” about conference on sustainable development held in Rio de Janeiro, Malthusianism and demographic transition

• "Vedomosti", "Profil’" and “Nezavisimaya Gazeta” about pension reform

• "Vzglyad" about the Onishchenko's vision  of retirement age

• "Expert" about poverty of German pensioners to come

• “Gazeta.ru” about budget of social programs in Moscow

• “Aif.ru” about action “Give birth to patriot”

• “Vechery Bishkek” about state of children in Kirghizia

• “Aktualne.cz”» about false alcohol in Russia

• “Meditsinskaya Gazeta” about mammographic screening

• «Daily Mail» about overtime work and risks of cardiopathy

• “Meditsinskaya Gezeta” and “Vecherny Bishkek” about migrants and health services

• “Vedomosti” about labour migration in Russia

• “Rossijskaya Gazeta” about quotas for foreign workers in Russia for 2013

• “FINANCE.UA” about labour migration from Ukraine

• “Ekho” about irregular migration in Azerbaijan

• “Rossikskaya Gazeta – Nedelya” about migration in Moscow from the neighborhood

• “The New York Times” about crisis migration from cities in villages in Spain

• “Russkaya Germaniya” about 250^th anniversary of resettlement Germans in Russia

• “Gazeta.ru” about image of Russian national policy

• “Commersant” about Cossacks from "region-filter"

• “MoldovaNova” about national minorities in Moldova

• “Chas” about citizenship and loyalty in Latvia

• “Novyje Izvestiya” about refugees from Syria in Armenia

• “Hankook Ilbo” about problems of education and citizenship in Korea

• “Karriere” about children and father’s career

• “Ogonjek” about standards of sexual activity

Recent publications

• Mortality of Russian teenagers from suicides

• World mortality report 2011

• Changing levels and trends in mortality: the role of patterns of death by cause

• Trends in maternal mortality: 1990 to 2010

• About state of population in Republic of Sakha (Yakutia)

• Through the pages of magazines “Ekologiya Cheloveka” and “Statistica Ukrainy”

• Content of the "Genus" magazine

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Pitirim Sorokin. Suicide as a social Phenomenon

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• Migration in the regions of Russia. Meeting of the students' scientific society "Demographer"

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