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Current topic:

What kinds of migrant workers do Russian companies need?

• The need for migrant workers: new data

• Employment agencies: migrants can satisfy the hunger for personnel

• Among officially recruited foreigners is a demand for both qualified and unqualified workers

• Recruiting migrant workers: an effort to lower costs or to find specialists with the necessary skills?

World demographic barometer

• Global trends in international migration and migration policy

• The number of international migrants is growing - for the years 1990-2010, it increased by 38% - but their share in the world population is growing at a more moderate increase from 2.9% to 3.1%

• Migration is increasing the growth of the populations of Oceania, North America and Europe, but reducing the populations of Latin America, Asia and Africa

• In 2012, developing countries received 401 billion U.S. dollars in the form of remittances from migrants

• The share of countries wishing to reduce immigration went down from 40% in 1996 to 16% in 2011, while the share of those wishing to increase it rose from 4% to 11%

• The share of countries wishing to reduce emigration - 23 - 24% - is almost unchanged, while that of those wanting to increase it has increased from 3% to 9%

Through the eyes of analysts

• Hiring migrants in a time of crisis

• Migrant workers in Russia: an assessment and prospects for interaction

• Female migrants from Central Asia in the big city and pregnancy: choices, problems and prospects

• Immigration on the agenda of public policy

Take care of women!

• AIDS victims Memorial Day

• AIDS: new victims in Russia

• May 17 - International Day Against Homophobia

In the vastness of Russia

• In 2012 11% of children were born in large families

• Mothers of large families may be given the right to a free second university degree

• The period of payment of insurance premiums for women with children will be increased

• New pension formula should be applied starting January 1, 2015

• Cabinet has agreed to give Russians an extra year to choose their pension plan

• Russians just beginning to work will be able to choose their pension structure

• Payment of child benefits will be handed over to the regions

• In Moscow, orphans under 23 will live in state apartments under the supervision of doctors and psychologists

• Families should be helped before the parents are deprived of their rights

• When considering applications for adoption, Russian courts will take into account France’s law on same-sex marriages

• The number of job openings is twice as high as the number of unemployed Russians

• The number of Russians satisfied with their work has grown in past two years

• FMS intends to reduce the number of Russians with dual citizenship

• Duma to pass law on citizenship for compatriots in the fall

• Mikhail Prokhorov proposes to give foreign honor students Russian citizenship

• Medvedev thinks Russia can’t do without migrants

• State Duma expects to prepare Migration Code by 2014

• Payments to compatriots moving to the Russian East will be doubled

• Moscow’s attractiveness for foreigners has its downsides

• Can quotas be replaced by a monthly tax on migrant workers?

• No amnesty for illegal immigrants

• Residents of St. Petersburg will also help to control migrants

• So far 8.5 thousand migrants have confirmed their knowledge of the Russian language

• UN has found the causes for the rise in Russia’s morbidity

• Golodets gives orders to present a new scenario for the development of health care

• Around one million Russians die each year from heart failure

• State Duma sets to work on fines for smokers

• Federal Drug Control Service will not put everyone on record who has tried drugs only once

• Ban Ki-moon calls on Russia to improve infrastructure for the disabled

• One fifth of schools will be equipped for disabled children by 2016

• State Duma forbids airlines to turn away disabled flyers

• Around 40% of Russians consider homosexuality a disease

Eurasian Panorama

• The population size of Uzbekistan has exceeded 30 million

• The population size of Kazakhstan is close to 17 million

• Could the population of Ukraine could shrink to 30 million by 2040?

• Experts have identified how to solve the demographic problem in countries of  the former USSR

• Mortality in Moldova has grown by 0.8% in past year

• A record number of divorces registered in Kazakhstan in 2013

• Bill to raise retirement age of women in Kazakhstan passes first reading

• After retirement men in Kazakhstan live an average of 13 years, but women an average of 20.8

• Money income of Belarusians increased by 21.4% in the first quarter of 2013

• Average salary in Kazakhstan for April was $695

• Tajikistan allots $120 million to develop the social sector

• In 2012, over 88 thousand jobs were created in Kirgizia

• Unemployment in Kazakhstan for April was 5.3%

• Unemployment benefits in Azerbaijan were reduced by 0.52% in April

• Azerbaijan’s Migration Code passed on first reading

• Tajikistan has received Russian language textbooks for those going to work in Russia

• Remittances to Moldova continue to grow

• Will the UN again pass a resolution on refugees from Abkhazia and South Ossetia?

• Armenia ranked 95th among “Best countries for motherhood”

• Angelina Jolie has inspired many Ukrainian women to check their health

• Kazakhstan schoolchildren sleep more than all others in world

World news

• Human life expectancy is increasing every year

• The number of Catholics in the world has increased by 1.5% over past year

• Estonia’s population continues to shrink

• The number  of Estonians in Estonia is increasing

• Obama makes job creation main subject of U.S. tour

• Unemployment rate in Egypt exceeded 13% in first quarter of 2013

• Youth unemployment: the number one problem for Lithuania

• In Turkey youth unemployment is rising

• Latvia’s President signs new version of law “On citizenship”

• Relevant committee of U.S. Senate approves immigration reform

• Senators propose to fingerprint foreigners leaving the U.S.

• Spain will give residence permits to foreign investors and property owners

• Are most Latvian migrant workers ready to return to their homeland?

• Over 1.5 million Syrians have officially received refugee status

• Syrian refugees could make up 40% of Jordan’s population in 2014

• French Parliament has expunged the word ‘race’ from the country’s legislation

• The number of Navajo Indians with HIV has increased five-fold

• The main cause of death in Latvia is cardiovascular disease

• One in five children in U.S. suffers from mental illness

• In China reagents have been put on the market to detect influenza virus H7N9 in humans

• Arkansas law on abortion ruled unconstitutional

• Vermont governor legalizes euthanasia

• In U.K. a contract has been developed for euthanasia

• European Court of Human Rights has pointed out legal problems with euthanasia in Switzerland

• U.S. congressmen vote against health care reform

• An increasing number of Afghan women are jailed for “moral crimes”

• Portuguese Parliament has allowed adoption of children by same-sex couples

• France has become the 14^th country to legalize same-sex marriage

• Patriarch Kirill has spoken out on the legalization of same-sex marriage in France

• The happiest people are women over 90

The newspapers write about…

• “Kommersant”, “Vedomosti” and “Gazeta.ru” on the migration code

• “Kommersant” on FMS proposal to limit migration from the CIS

• “Izvestiya” on a “moratorium” for migrants

• “Vedomosti” on the “migration resource” in Russia

• “Izvestiya” on taxes from workers

• “Rossiskaya Gazeta” and “Profil” on permanent resident permits for children of migrants

• “Izvestiya” on citizenship for entrepreneurs and investors

• “Novye Izvestiya” on making it easier for Russian compatriots abroad to obtain citizenship

• “Rossiskaya Gazeta” on migrants in Sochi

• “The Washington Times” on the Boston bombings and political asylum in the U.S.

• “Vlast” on the attractiveness of Germany for migrants

• “FINANCE.UA” on a possible facilitation of labor migration from Ukraine and Russia to Britain

• “Moldavskie Vedomosti” on Moldovan migrants in Russia

• “Nezavisimaya Gazeta” on migration and Russian identity

• “Vedomosti” on Eurasian integration and the situation of Russians in post-Soviet countries

• “REX-Zagranitsa” on Russians in Central Asia

• “Le Figaro” on expunging the word ‘race’ from French legislation

• “Die Welt” on racism in Greece

• “Novye Izvestiya” on delays in sending Russian pensions abroad

• “FINANCE.UA” on regional problems of the aging population in Ukraine

• “Liter.kz” on the working-age population in Kazakhstan

• “Panorama” on the 11 million Kazakhs in Kazakhstan

• “Polit.ru” on new infections

• “Slon.ru” on diseases and the future of medicine

• “Nezavisimaya Gazeta” on the problems of AIDS in Rusia

• “Itogi” on genetic screening for a predisposition to cancer

• “Profil” on the reduction in deaths from road accidents

• “Gazeta.ru” on the lowering of the allowable blood alcohol level for drivers in the U.S.

• “Nezavisimaya Gazeta” on the underfunding of Russian health care

• “Rossiskaya Gazeta” on underweight newborns

• “Obozrevatel.com” on rejection of bill to ban abortion in Ukraine

• “The Atlantic” on the motherhood ranking of countries

• “Rossiskaya Gazeta” on the problems of mothers of large families

• “REX-Zagranitsa” on Ukraine’s family support program

• “Obozrevatel.com” on the aging of motherhood in Ukraine

• “The Wall Street Journal” on violence in Indian families

• “Latvijas Avize” on casualties in World War II

• “Novye Izvestiya” on rating the attractiveness of Russian cities

• “Vedomosti” on the benefits of rural gardeners

• “The Diplomat” on obstacles to urbanization in China

• “Polit.ru” on food for a growing world population

• “La Stampa” on environmental problems in China

• “Slate” on a means to thwart cosmic catastrophoes

• “Gazeta.ru” on genomic relationships of Europeans

• “Nezavisimaya Gazeta” on the settlement of Australia

Read books and magazines

• Migration in Russia 2000-2012  

• A 3-volume reader.

• The practice of using patents for labor activity by foreign citizens in the Russian Federation (a study’s results)

• World development report 2013: Jobs

• Recommendation of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe to member states on measures to combat discrimination on grounds of sexual orientation or gender identity

• Selected decisions of the European Court of Human Rights.  Issues of sexual orientation and gender identity

• Through the pages of the journals “Mediko-sotsialnaya expertiza i reabilitatsiya” (“Medico-social expertise and rehabilitation”) and “Chelovek i trud” (“Man and Labor”)

• Content of the magazine “Migrations Societe”

Profession: researcher

• CIS countries through the prism of the census. An international scientific and practical conference

• Women’s migration from CIS countries to Russia. Meeting of the Demographic section of the House of Scientists

• 390 years since the birth of William Petty

Student page

• On the Master’s Program in Demography

• Graduates of the Master’s Program “Demography”, 2011-2012