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Current topic: Single motherhood in Russia

• Single motherhood: a surge of interest

• “A single mother” or a single woman with children

• Children “without a father”

• How many single mothers in Russia

• Single mothers: alone or with relatives

• Single motherhood as a dynamic state

• Some conclusions

• Links to current issue

• Topics of previous issues

Global demographic barometer

U.S. Households

• The average household size in the United States is getting smaller: 2.55 people in 2012 versus 3.36 in the early 1960s

• The proportion of family households declined from 85% to 66%, and the proportion of households in which there is a married couple from 74% to 49%

• The marriage age is increasing, and the number of divorced and separated couples is growing

• The proportion of out-of-wedlock births has risen to 40%

• In 2012, 68.1% of children under the age of 18 were living with both parents, 28.3% with one parent, and 3.6% without parents

Through the eyes of analysts

• Reproductive attitudes of the population in modern Russia

• How to dispose of the “maternity capital” or the citizens’ response to family policy

• The influence of religious socialization and community membership on fertility. Statement of the problem

• The marital status of the Australian population

• “Involved fatherhood” in modern Russia: strategies for taking part in child care

Recent polls

• God or evolution?

• Religion and the Church in public life

• The labor market and unemployment: monitoring

• Two-thirds of Russians approve of the proposal to allow CIS citizens to enter Russia only on foreign passports

• The law on registration (‘propiska’) is supported by only a fifth of Russians

• 150 rubles for a pack of cigarettes: what will smokers do?

• Road safety through the eyes of participants, traffic police and society

• Happiness Russian-style: according to VCIOM polls

• The happiness map according to FOM (the Public Opinion Foundation) polls

In the vastness of Russia

• The president deems the demographic situation to be positive

• Raising the retirement age in Russia is pointless, considers Putin

• The number of Russians living poorly decreases

• 77% of Russians consider themselves happy

• The wages of state employees will rise despite criticism

• The Ministry of Labor proposes to extend the time limit for choosing a tariff to shape pensions

• Russians with 35 years of work experience will be able to increase their pension by 1.1 thousand rubles

• Pensions of mothers with many children will grow if 4.5 years of maternity leave are included in their work experience

• Mothers dismissed during maternity leave will receive child care benefits

• The regions are recommended to make adoptive families equal to large ones

• The demand for kindergartens is becoming a new model of social behavior in Russia

• Government allots first tranche of 50 billion rubles for the construction of kindergartens

• At the start of 2013 the number of orphans in Russia came to about 650 thousand

• In 2012 foreigners adopted 2.5 times fewer orphans than did Russian citizens

• Foster children in past year were returned to Moscow orphanages twice as often

• Russia may denounce the agreement with France on adoption

• Unemployment in Russia in March decreased by 1.5% compared with February

• Discrimination on the basis of registration is inadmissible when hiring

• Putin gives orders to develop bill making it easier for compatriots to get citizenship

• Duma rejects bill to return the “nationality” line to Russian passports

• FMS has simplified the application procedure for 5-year foreign passports

• Russia wants to develop an agreement on a visa-free regime with the EU by 2015

• In 2013 2 billion rubles will be allocated for the return of compatriots to Russia

• Should the compatriot resettlement program be adapted to the needs of the military-industrial complex?

• Over half of compatriots are resettled through the state program in the Central Federal District

• Duma bans the hiring of unskilled migrant workers under the guise of specialists

• Deportation will make it impossible for foreigners to get a residence permit in Russia for the following 8 years

• Employers may be required to pay the Social Insurance Fund for migrant workers

• Migrant workers will be obliged to provide medical documents when applying for a work permit or patent

• The Ministry of Health intends to almost halve the number of smokers by 2020

• Over half of Russian smokers are ready to quit if the cost of cigarettes rises significantly

• Scary pictures on cigarette packs to appear in Russia this summer

• The proportion of premature births in Moscow is at 6%

• Additional polio vaccinations for children have already begun

• Putin thinks it unwise to lift the moratorium on the death penalty

• In 2012 the number of crimes in Moscow declined by more than 10%

Eurasian Panorama

• The population size of Belarus on the 1^st of April was 9.46 million

• The population of Ukraine decreased by 74 thousand persons over the past year

• In Kiev and two regions of Ukraine fertility exceeded mortality

• Cancelling pension reform in Ukraine will increase the deficit of the pension fund

• The World Bank will allocate Kirgizstan $16.5 million for the development of health care and social welfare

• Will creating a free trade zone with the EU lead to de-industrialization of Ukraine?

• Large-scale construction of rental housing to begin in Belarus

• Tajikistan’s President has urged to simplify the procedure for adopting orphans

• A shortage of qualified personnel for industry has developed in Kazakhstan

• Over $6.5 million will be spent on finding jobs for citizens of Kazakhstan until 2016

• Kazakhstan’s Ministry of Labor promises to keep jobs for women approaching retirement age

• Time for Tajikistan to think about finding jobs for migrant workers denied entry to Russia

• Russia to think about helping CIS countries introduce foreign passports

• Nearly 16,500 citizens of Kazakhstan have received U.S. green cards in past 9 years

• Around 2 million Ukrainians are employed abroad

• Migrant workers in Kazakhstan bring to the economy $1.1 billion a year

• Labor migration brings Kirgizstan money, but “leaches out” its brains

• Kirgiz citizens violate Russia's immigration rules due to ignorance of the law

• Each year, some thirty thousand people from the North Caucasus try to enter the EU through Belarus

• The issue with Dushanbe-Moscow passenger trains has been dropped

• Will the Corporation for the Development of Central Asia reduce the number of deaths from drugs in Russia?

• Kirgizstan’s chief narcologist supports the initiative of the Russian Federal Drug Control Service

• In Uzbekistan, infectious tuberculosis patients will be forced to seek treatment

• Kirgizia tightens measures on the border with China due to bird flu

• Georgian Patriarch calls for ban on abortions at the legislative level

World News

• The population size of Latvia is 2.022 million people

• The population of Iran is aging rapidly

• Northern European countries deemed the best place for motherhood

• The happiest young people live in Mexico

• Urbanization contributes to economic growth

• The UN is ready to help China in the wake of a powerful earthquake

• Latvian Saeima refuses to raise tax-free minimum pensions

• Lithuanian families don’t have enough money for entertainment and recreation

• Law enforcement authorities of the EU and Interpol will have access to a database of fingerprints of refugees

• In France begins first trial in a case of racism against whites

• Over 270 thousand pedestrians are killed on the roads each year

• In Israel, the death rate from heart attacks has declined by 50% over 10 years

• Nearly five thousand Singaporeans infected this year with dengue fever

• Autism in newborns is connected with a pathology of the placenta

• The death toll in the collapse of a building in a suburb of the capital of Bangladesh has risen to 540 people

• Estonia adopts plan to eliminate deaths in the workplace by 2020

• Britain investigates hospital deaths of more than 3 thousand patients

• April in Iraq became the bloodiest month since 2008

• France’s National Assembly approves law on same-sex marriage and adoption

• Uruguay’s president approves bill to legalize same-sex marriage

• Authorities in U.S. state of Rhode Island have legalized same-sex marriage

• UK crime rate fell by 25% in 10 years

• Authorities in U.S. state of Maryland have abolished the death penalty

The papers write about….

• “Nezavisimaya Gazeta” on health and life expectancy in Russia

• “Meditsinskaya Gazeta” on there “being nobody to die”

• “Meditsinskaya Gazeta” on the tasks of the Ministry of Health

• “The Wall Street Journal” on Russia’s alcohol problem

• “Kommersant” on monetizing the maternity capital

• “Novye Izvestiya” on the theory of demographic timeliness of reforms

• “Kommersant” on the health insurance of prisoners

• “Meditsinskaya Gazeta” on social demography and gerontology

• “Belarus Sevodnya” on the consequences of the accident at Chernobyl

• “Reuters” on why austerity is bad for your health

• “Novye Izvestiya” on the “budgetary maneuver” in favor of the social sphere

• “Izvestiya” on binding migrant workers to employers

• “Polit.ru” and “Vecherni Bishkek” on entering Russia on internal passports

• “Kommersant” on savings the lives of Russians by creating jobs in Central Asia

• “Novye Izvestiya” on quotas in Switzerland for migrant workers from the EU

• “Le Temps” on the Boston bombing and migration reform in the USA

• “The Wall Street Journal” on the Boston bombings and “the melting pot”

• “Vedomosti” on transferring companies to the regions and the possible migration of managers

• “The Financial Times” on expats in Russia

• “Meditsinskaya Gazeta” on rare children’s diseases

• “Vlast” on problems of adoption

• “Kommersant” on lifting restrictions on adoption for children with HIV and hepatitis

• “Project Syndicate” on the welfare of children in rich countries

• “The Atlantic” on the misfortunes of the “millennium generation”

• “Izvestiya” on the efficiency rating of governors

• “Slon.ru” on the future of megalopolises

• “Ogonyok” on the “smart city”

• “Litovski Kuryer” on the victims of war and concentration camp prisoners in Lithuania

• “La Vanguardia” on the universal conspiracy against population growth

• “Meditsinskaya Gazeta” on polygamy

• “Novye Izvestiya” on anti-incest in Iceland

• “Kommersant” on the homosexual obsession of the Duma

Read books and magazines

• A socio-demographic portrait of Russia.  Results of the 2010 Russian census

• Fertility rates and population decline: no time for children?

• The European health report 2012: charting the way to well-being

• Demographic aspects of socio-economic development

• Migration and the flow of humans in Eurasia

• Through the pages of the magazines “Voprosy Statistiki” (“Statistical Issues”) and “Vestnik obshchestvennovo mneniya” (“Journal of Public Opinion”)

• Contents of the magazine “Studies in Family Planning”

Profession: researcher

• Conference on “Disurbanization and natural capital: migration trends, infocommunications and new rural communities”

• For the 70^th birthday of Anatoly Pavlovich Sudoplatov

• Demographer and not only

• A.P. Sudoplatov.  Developing demography at MSU: behind the political scenes

Student Page

• About the Master’s in Demography

• Potential for modernizing the occupational structure of the employed population of Russia. The meeting of the student society "Demographer”

• How to write a scientific text?

• How to write better

• How better not to write

New in the reading room

• How to write a scientific text: the school experience of a young author