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Current topic: Mortality of the elderly from unnatural causes

• The elderly too die from external causes

• Elderly mortality from homicides and “injuries with uncertain intentions”

• Suicide is in first place

• A great number of the elderly die from fires

• Falling in old age

• …and other causes of death among the elderly

Demographic barometer: World trends in mortality at older ages

• The proportion of people aged 60 and over increased to 58% of total deaths in 2010-2015, with marked differences from country to country – from 27% in the least developed ones to 83% in the most developed ones

• Those living to age 60 will live on average another 20 years

• The average cohort life expectancy  is higher than what was expected in the period in which they were born

• Between the ages of 30 and 44 external causes, HIV infection and AIDS claim more lives than cardiovascular disease and cancer, which become the main causes of death after age 45

• After age 60 the contribution to mortality of cardiovascular diseases increases with age

Analytical articles

• The autumn of life: possibilities for lowering mortality in old age

• Age and nosological characteristics of mortality in Russia against the background of Western European states in 1990-2009

• Possibilities for using medical statistics for the analysis of morbidity and mortality at the municipal level

• U.S. healthcare reform: lessons for Russia

Take care of women!

• 40 years since the landmark ruling by the US Supreme Court of Roe vs. Wade

Recent polls

• Unemployment and the labor market: monitoring

• Should divorce be acceptable?

• How we look after our health

• What faith do you adhere to?

• Entering Russia on foreign passports

Russian news

• In 2012 Russia recorded growth in population and fertility

• It’s easier to marry a foreigner in Russia than in other countries

• Russians gradually choosing the village as home

• The decline of Russia’s population makes it necessary to attract migrants

• In 2002 2.7 million foreigners received Russian citizenship

• 100 thousand people have left the Murmansk region in the last 10 years

• The insurance part of labor pensions will be indexed by 6.6 percent

• The government to use pension savings for long-term investment projects

• Retirement allowances to be received only  by Muscovites who have continuously lived in the capital for the past 10 years

• Pensions to disabled children and payments to foster parents will increase

• The government  to give equal status to maternity leave and child-care leave

• In the State Duma a bill has been submitted which would lift the ban on adoption by Americans of children from Russia

• The “Dima Yakovlev law” is irrevocable, assures Astakhov

• Orphans whose adoption was decided by the courts will leave for the USA

• Fedotov considers premature a complete ban on foreign adoption

• A package of bills to prevent child abandonment has been submitted to the Duma

• Medvedev instructs Golodets to urgently work on implementing the decree on the protection of orphans

• Orphanages in the Russian Federation must work on finding families for orphans

• Less than 20 thousand families in Russia are ready to adopt an orphan

• The problem of orphans in Russia won’t be solved by “handing out” children to families?

• The number of Russians employed in the economy in 2013 will decrease by 200 thousand, in 2014 by 300 thousand, and in 2015 by 400 thousand

• The Ministry of Labor proposes to tie unemployment benefits to lost wages

• Russians will not need the consent of their foreign spouse to their child’s adoption of Russian citizenship

• The FMS has received the status of a federal ministry

• Compatriots to move to Russia more easily

• NWFD program to resettle compatriots fails

• State Duma Committee head proposes limit on number of residents in one apartment

• Foreigners will be able to register with the FMS of the Russian Federation  through government services centers

• Biometric information to be used when registering foreigners

• Poltavchenko proposes setting limits on professions  for migrants

• In Moscow migrant workers  to be tested for alcohol and drugs

• Medvedev supports idea of Russian language testing for migrants

• The Russian Orthodox Church wants to organize Russian language courses for migrants

• Nearly 16 million migrants were deported by Russian bailiffs in 2012

• State Duma considers bill fining millions for child trafficking

• School children will be tested for drugs

• Fires in Moscow claim 200 lives in the past year

• Medvedev intends to improve the quality of life of the elderly

• The number of prisoners in Russia is below 600 thousand persons for the first time in ten years

Eurasian news

• Population size of Kazakhstan on December 1, 2012 was 16,896 thousand people

• 153 thousand couples got married in Kazakhstan in 2012

• Over 1 thousand early marriages in Tajikistan in 2012

• Every 13^th resident of Tajikistan is an unemployed pensioner

• Kazakhstan proposes creation of a single pension fund

• Can Ukraine expect GDP growth of 3-4% in 2013?

• The average monthly salary in Belarus now over $500

• Social payments in Kazakhstan increased by 16%

• Salaries of Kazakh and foreign workers will be more closely monitored

• Armenian government ready to aid development of industrial enterprises

• Ukraine intends to simplify adoption procedures for foreigners

• Relevant committee of the European Parliament approves simplification of visa regime with Ukraine

• Nazarbayev confident that Eurasian integration does not imply political alliances

• Simplified visas for Kazakhs in Ukraine

• Up to 40% of the economically active population of Moldova  are migrant workers

• In 2012 $74.9 million was transferred from Russia to Georgia

• In 2012 494 citizens of Syria sought asylum in Armenia

• Transition from the Kazakh to the Roman alphabet set for 2025

• Transition to  the Kirgiz language for all official paperwork will be conducted in stages

• The number of HIV-infected people in Tajikistan in 2012 was 4.5 thousand

• The Ministry of Health of Tajikistan recommends that barbers not shave beards due to risk of HIV infection

• Infant mortality in Kazakhstan down by 6.6%

• Belarus drastically reduces “social indicators” for abortions in late-term pregnancy

World news

• Estonian capital retains positive population growth rate, but not the rest of the country

• Business community in Lithuania names population decline the country’s chief threat

• The government of Latvia sets wage ceiling in state enterprises

• Belgians the richest in the European Union

• In 2013 Yemen will need $716 million in humanitarian aid

• U.N. has managed to provide only 50% of the humanitarian aid needed by Syrians

• Obama improves standards of international adoptions in the U.S.

• The U.S. will comply with 1964 convention regarding access of the Russian Federation to children adopted from Russia

• The number of unemployed in the world has increased to 197 million

• Greece overtakes Spain in Eurozone unemployment rate

• Registered unemployment in Latvia down slightly over past month

• Estonian parliament will update law “On citizenship” for the so-called “forgotten children”

• In 2011 over 300 children born in Estonia to parents of different nationalities became citizens of Russia

• The number of emigrants from Estonia grew by 43% in 2012

• Can only a change in the citizenship law stop the brain drain from Lithuania?

• Most Latvians unhappy with government efforts to bring back country’s emigrants

• Cubans can now travel abroad without permission from the authorities

• The number of Syrian refugees in neighboring countries reaches 612 thousand

• Turkey has spent $360 million on Syrian refugees

• The UN predicts that “in the near future” 407 thousand people will leave Mali

• French schoolchildren take first place in Europe for smoking marijuana

• Record number of suicides in US armed forces in 2012

• American cancer mortality falls by 20% in past 20 years

• World incidence of measles has decreased by 60% in the last decade

• Latvian Ministry of Defense expresses alarm at young people’s health

• The population of Europe has received protection from meningitis B

• Most Americans against abortion ban

• Obama unveils a package of measures to combat violence

• Air pollution in Beijing is a health hazard

• Extremely high temperatures will be more common in the U.S. in the near future

• Tens of thousands of French protest against the legalization of same-sex marriage

• Hollande rules out the possibility of referendum on same-sex marriage

• Obama to seek recognition of same-sex marriages

The newspapers write about ...

• “Slate.fr” on world demographic projections

• “Ogonyok” on CIA forecasts

• “Kommersant” on pension reform through the eyes of a minister

• “Rossiskaya Gazeta” on demography and literature

• “Opec.ru” on the social state

• “Rossiskaya Gazeta” on the “Employment Promotion” program

• “Moskovskie Novosti” on trends in the global and Russian labor markets

• “Opec.ru” on the effectiveness of budgetary programs to promote employment

• “La Jornada” on poverty in Mexico

• “Atlantico” and “Opec.ru” on the economic and social consequences of China’s population policy

• “Belorusy i rynok” on child benefits in Belarus

• “Moskovskie Novosti” on the state program “Developing health care”

• “Nikkei” on the problem of traffic accidents in Japan

• “The Diplomat” on suicides in Japan

• “Huanqiu Shibao” on China’s national policy

• “Profil” on Russian migration policy

• “Gazeta.ru” on the minister in charge of  the FMS

• “Izvestiya” on residence permits for graduates of Russian universities

• “Nezavisimaya Gazeta” and “Novye Izvestiya” on tightening registration rules

• “Meditsinskaya Gazeta” on migrants and Russian health care

• “Kommersant” on mandatory insurance for labor migrants

• “Rossiskaya Gazeta – Nedelya” on migrants and the Russian language

• “Rossiskaya Gazeta” on notifying “undesirable” aliens”

• “Ekho” on the price of Azerbaijani citizenship

• “Kommersant” on Tajik migrants, a military base and Russian oil

• “Tv7.md” on emigration from Moldova

• “Slon.ru” on the price of longevity

• “Der Spiegel” on pensioner ghosts in Greece

• “Russki Reporter” on aging

• “Mainichi” on a woman’s lot in Japan

• “Christian Science Monitor” on the situation of domestic workers in Saudi Arabia

• “Telegraph” on abortions and reproductive tourism in Poland

• “Courier.co.il” on an ethnic slice of Israeli demography

• “Gazeta.ru” on the origins of Eastern European Jews

• “La Stampa” and “Gazets.ru” on the possibility of cloning a Neanderthal

• “Moskovskie Novosti” on two Moscow poleis  

• “Profil” on legalizing prostitution

• “Rossiskaya Gazeta” and “Ogonyok” on comparing Russia today with Russia in 1913

Recent publications

• European report on preventing elder maltreatment

• Noncommunicable diseases country profiles 2011

• European report on preventing violence andknife crime among young people

• Encyclopedia of statistical terms

• The population of Ukraine in 2011. Statistical Yearbook

• Through the pages of the magazines “Sotsiologicheskie Issledovaniya” (“Sociological Studies”)  and “Rossiya i sovremenny mir” (“Russia and the modern world”)

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