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Current topic:  A demographic breakthrough or going in circles? Part 2

• An unprecedented decline in mortality in 2011
• We have a long way to go to  European life expectancy
• Millions of excessive deaths
• Causes of death: demographic diagnostic
• Health  is expensive
• Who are migrants and what is their number?
• Migration as a demographic resource
• Migration as an economic resource

Demographic barometer. The demographic situation in the CIS states, 2011

• At the beginning  of 2012, the  CIS states population was  279 million people
• The natural decrease (increase) in population plays a major role  in changes of the population size in the CIS states in 2000-2011
• In 2005-2011, most CIS states experienced a rise in the crude fertility rate
• In 2005-2011,  mortality in the CIS states declined but  remains  to be relatively high

Analytical articles

• Destalinization of health care as a condition for modernization
• Motives management in health care
• Unspecified causes of deaths  from infectious and non-infectious diseases among  the Russian population according to official statistics
• Malignant neoplasms morbidity and mortality in Russia and some other countries
• Constant migration between Russia and the CIS and Baltic states
• Labour migration in Russia  in the first decade of the 21^st century
• Mortality from external causes of death in Russia in the second half of the 20^th – the beginning of the 21^st centuries
• The history and peculiarities of  road accidents classification
• Homicide mortality dynamics in Russia
• “Event of undetermined intent”  is the leading cause  of violent deaths in Russia
• Metric books as a source of the Russian population history

Recent polls

• A state outpatient hospital and self-medication  are  our response to  diseases!
• Restriction on the sale of alcohol: Does the law work?
• National policy and the attitude to migrants

Take care of women! Adolescent reproductive health in the post-Soviet states

• Sexual activity in adolescence
• The level of adolescent pregnancies
• Contraceptive use
• Socially-significant diseases among adolescents and youth
• Sexual education is the way to improve reproductive health
• Conclusions

Russian news

• Russia experiences its first population growth  in recent years
• Demographers view a natural increase in population  as a temporary phenomenon
• Russia is about to face a decline in births
• A population growth is possible only through migration
• Voronezh will become  a  million city
• In Irkutsk Oblast, there are  1160 women per 1000 men
• The average age of population in Bashkiria is 37 years
• There are about 115 nationalities, living in Chuvashia
• 63,9% of Russian women are against new children in their families
• Government will  choose the priority area of  fertility support in the country
• The improved pension reform strategy has been submitted to the government
• The minimum length of service required for receiving pension is planned to be increased up to 10 years.
• Golodets is against increasing payments only to pensioners who do not work
• The Ministry of Labour will propose the mechanism for bringing up  the minimum wages up to the subsistence level
• Almost half of the Russian population over 15 have university degrees
• The total period of maternity leave will be  included into the general length of service
• In 2013, the number of first grade pupils  may grow up to 90 thousand
• Senator Torshin wants to give Russian orphans into Caucasian families
• Will  the labour market benefit from the ban on cheap  labour force?
• Migration is development, believes the head of the Federal Migration Service
• Can low-skilled migrants reduce the cost of labour in the RF?
• By 2015, the RF may be entered only using an international passport
• Kazakh and Russian citizens may visit each others’ country without registration for 30 days
• National approaches in the sphere of migration  within the Common Economic Space should be unified
• Five Russian regions accommodate three quarters of external migrants
• Almost 900 compatriots have moved to  Kamchatka over  4 years
• The Ministry of Labour will oblige employers to buy voluntary health insurance for migrant workers
• The majority of migrants will take  the Russian language test in spring
• By 2015, all migrants will probably have to take the Russian language test
• Is the paid Russian language testing a new mechanism of segregation?
• Foreign citizens deportation centers will be transferred into the jurisdiction of the Federal Migration Service
• Mironov proposed to return the information about nationality into  the passport
• Every tenth Moscow school pupil has tried drugs
• A draft law on stricter punishment  for drunk drivers  has been submitted to the State Duma
• Over a quarter of Russians are obese
• Over a half of Russians  prefer state  outpatient hospitals to paid ones
• Skvortsova admitted that the RF health care system “leaves much to be desired”
• The Ministry of Health  plans to start mandatory  chicken pox vaccination from 2015
• The Ministry of Health hopes to have examined all Russian adult population by 2016

Eurasian news

• The Moldavian economically active population has decreased
• In 2020, there will be about 2 million pensioners  in Azerbaijan
• Pension payments in Kazakhstan  will be increased by 9%
• The amount of Kazakh  subsistence level is  16,6  thousand tenge
• About 65% of  children with disabilities  in Armenia are poor
• From 20 to 60 thousand  Kirgizian children do not attend school
• In Belorussia, starting from January 2013, child benefits will double
• In 2013, Azerbaijan will increase the amount of targeted social  assistance
• Seamstresses are in the highest  demand  In Moldavian  labour market
• The unemployment level in Kazakhstan is 5,3%
• By the end of 2013, the registered unemployment level in Belorussia   will  not exceed 1,5%
• Azerbaijan has announced a reduction in the actual unemployment level to 5,3%
• Youth unemployment is the principle employment challenge in Armenia
• Ukrainians are going to receive a new passport every ten years
• For Ukrainian citizens, exchanging old passports for biometrical ones is  the right and not an obligation
• The agreement on labour migration between Tajikistan and Russia may be signed till the end of  January 2013
• In November, the migration service  deported 1639 foreigners from Azerbaijan
• Is Moldavia in for a mass return of migrant workers?
• In the Ukraine, the HIV prevalence is one of the highest in Europe
• 1133 HIV cases were diagnosed In Belorussia in January-November
• There are about 3500 HIV infected people in Armenia
• 3588 HIV cases have been recorded in Georgia
• 23% of Azerbaijani women have never heard of AIDS
• Will increased taxes solve the problem of smoking in the Ukraine?
• In the Ukraine, three of four patients, suffering from  renal failure, die
• There are about  180,5 thousand disable people in Armenia
• In Azerbaijan, 26,5% of pensioners are disabled
• Over the last years, infant mortality in Armenia has declined
• 400 thousand people in Azerbaijan suffer from infertility

World news

• The Latvian population is 2,031 million people
• Over the last 10 years,  the population of England and Wales has grown by 7 per cent
• The world oldest woman died
• Almost a quarter of the EC citizens are  living near the poverty  line
• The German government embellished the report on poverty in the country
• The UN Refugee  Agency will help Afghan homeless people
• The average gross salary in Latvia is 484 lats
• The US unemployment rate has dropped to its lowest level in 4 years
• Latvia’s naturalization rates are gradually slowing down
• Macedonia will offer citizenship to foreigners who  invest more than 400 thousand Euros
• Latvia shouldn’t expect a sharp  rise in  migrants’ inflow
• Will  the  number of Syrian refugees reach  700 thousand By the beginning of 2013?
• Estonian opposition defends the right of Russians to study in their native language
• The USA successfully  implements its AIDS objectives
• Cuba recorded a decline in the HIV/AIDS incidence
• UK registered the record number of  HIV  infected people
• The number of new HIV infections in  Greece has grown
• Only 25% of people infected with HIV receive treatment in Estonia
• The yellow fever epidemic in Sudan is the most severe in 20 years
• About 2 thousand people  got infected  with Denge fever in  Madeira
• 3 December is the International  Day  of Persons with Disabilities
• Sperm count of French men have dropped by a third over 17 years
• The death toll from the typhoon in Philippines exceeded 200  
• Dozens of people in Europe have become victims of cold weather and  snowfalls
• The Czech Republic  legalized the use of medical marijuana
• The official Church in England and Wales will be banned in law from offering  same-sex marriages
• The law on  recognition of same-sex marriages comes into effect in the State of Washington

Newspapers write about ...

• “Rossiyskaya gazeta” – about demographic issues in the President’s message
• RIA “Novosti”, “Rossiyskaya Gazeta” and “Moskovskiy Komsomolets” – about fertility in Russia
• «Slon.ru» - about  a population growth  in 2011
• “Noviye Izvestiya” – about living up to 100 years
• “Commersant” – about the Russian health care system
• “Medicinskaya Gazeta” – about early diagnostic of  cerebral palsy
• «Gorod.lv» - about family policy in Lithuania
• «Slon.Ru» - about a declined in births in the USA
• «Forbes» -  about the family size and  innovativeness
• “Nezavisimaya Gazeta” – about  increasing Russian salaries
• “Nezavisimaya Gazeta”  and  «Slon.Ru»  -  about “chaining” Byelorussians to their workplaces
• «Finmarket.RU» - about robots instead of  the Chineese
• “Rossiyskaya Gazeta” – about the crisis and “the new outcaste”
• “Itogi” – about cash transfers from Russia
• “Vedomosti” – about migration in the President’s message
• «Superjob.ru» and «Slon.ru» - about the harm of migration to Russia
• “Moscovskiye Novosti” -  about legislation on labour migrants
• “Izvestiya” – about  criminal responsibility of employers hiring illegal migrants
• «Gazeta.ru» - about  a three-year ban on  entry into Russia for persons who failed leave the country on due time
• “Commersant” – about migrants and the Russian language
• “New Izvestia” – about migrant postmen
• “Izvestia” – about an increased quota for employing labour migrants in Moscow
• «Gazeta.ru» -  about the postponement of  consideration of the law on a simplified procedure of granting Russian citizenship to foreign compatriots
• “Moskovskiye Novosti” – about “closing” New Urengoy
• “Izvestiya” and “Polit.ru” – about good upbringing for  orphaned children from the Northern latitudes
• «The New York Times» - about Syrian refugees fleeing to  Armenia
• «Courier.co.il» - about   forcing Ethiopian female repatriates  in Israel to use contraception in Israel
• Noviye Izvestiya” – about Dominican racism
• «Slon.ru» - about migration from the poorest countries
• «Slon.ru» - about a changing face of immigration in the USA
• “Telegraph” – about American  Tea Party movement
• “Expert” – about cultural diversity as a threat  of a crisis in the USA
• “Nezavisimaya Gazeta” – about preservation of the  Tartar ethnic identity
• “Itogi” – about  the  “pension compromise”
• “Profile” - about  the Russian and Swedish pension systems
• “Zerkalo Nedeli” – about higher education in the Ukraine
• “InoSmi” – about restrictions imposed on Iranian women wishing to travel  outside the country
• “Noviye Izvestia” – about  Russian school children’s excess weight
• “Rossiyskaya Gazeta”  -  about vodka and beer
• «Gazeta.ru» - about age-specific  peculiarities of  road accidents
• “Expert” – about the land issue in   North Caucuses
• «Lenta.ru» - about dying Detroit
• “Zerkalo” -  about dirty cities
• “Commersant-Vlast” – about   indigenous small-numbered peoples of the North and hydrocarbons
• “Commersant” – about the unified state demographic register and biometric passports in the Ukraine

Recent publications

• World Population in 2012
• Global Tuberculosis Report 2012
• Peculiarities of Reproductive Behaviour of the Russians in the context of transformational economy
• The EU in the world 2013
• HIV/AIDS surveillance in Europe 2011
• Materials of “Voprosi Statistiki”, “Vestnik MGU. Series 6. Economy” Journals
• The contents of «Population & Societes»

Profession: Researcher

• From the Ipatiev House to the executed census: on the occasion of the 120^th  anniversary of Valentin Ivanovitch Khotimsky

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• Olympiads for entering Master’s Degree program and  Winter schools of vocational guidance
• Selected Essays.  Semenova E. The route of reasonable migrational policy: Phillippines’ experience

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Alfred Sauvy.”General Theory of Population”

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