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Current issue:

How do Russians earn their living?

• 12 ways of earning a living
• The “main triad” and other ways
• Earning a living and the life cycle
• The main sources of livelihood
• What people live on in the cities and in the countryside
• Jobs and pensions push aside “competitors”
• 838 out of 1000 Muscovites live on one source of livelihood, while only 344 out of 1000 Chechnya residents do
• Links to current topic
• Topics of previous issues

World demographic barometer

• World population prospects: UN assessments  of the 2012 revision
• In June 2013 the UN presented the results of its latest, 23rd revision of world population prospects
• Growth of the world population continues. Medium variant forecast is for world population to grow from 7.2 billion people in 2013 to 8.1 in 2025 and 9.6 in 2050
• Significant differences in fertility persist; in countries with high fertility it is declining more slowly than previously expected
• Global life expectancy in 2005-2010 was  68.7 years; by mid-century it will grow to 77 years, and by the end to 82 years.
• Calculations assumed that the contribution of migration to changes in the population of countries and the world would decline
• Aging of world population to speed up: the median age of world population will grow from 27 years in 2010 to 35 years in mid-century and 41 years by the century’s end

Through the eyes of analysts

• The middle class in a rent-based economy: why has Moscow ceased to be Russia?
• The development of social policy in Russia 1990-2000
• Your own home or an education – on the choice of social policy priorities
• Gender aspects of employment in the Republic of Moldova

On-line polls

• The image of the ideal family
• Russians on divorce: 20 years ago and today
• Public opinion on limiting abortion and divorce
• A new poll on the LGBT
• Russians on the new conservative laws
• The law on homosexual propaganda: pros and cons
• Moral constraints of Russians

In the vastness of Russia

• The Minister of Health is pleased with the reduction of mortality and the increase in fertility in the Russian Federation
• The Civil Registry Office will send information about the death and birth of Russians to the FMS, the Russian Pension Fund, Social insurance fund and the Obligatory medical insurance fund
• Raising the minimum wage will affect about 1.3 million Russians
• The pension fund budget is not in the red
• Working pensioners will receive their pensions in full
• Starting in August working pensioners will receive a higher pension
• The Ministry of Labor has no plans to introduce residence requirements to receive social pensions
• The Ministry of Labor proposes to simplify receipt of pensions for mothers of large families
• Women with five or more children will be retiring early
• The number of orphans in Russia has gone down by 1.7 times in the last 5 years
• The number of Russians satisfied with their standard of living has gone down in the past year
• Duma considers law on the registration of dachas
• Over 26 million people in Russia work in hazardous industries
• Unemployment in Moscow has reached an historic low
• Russia and the EU could conclude negotiations on the visa regime by the end of the year
• Will the new immigration policy attract migrants for permanent residence?
• FMS proposes point system for migrants
• Around 15 thousand people came to Russia in 2013 as part of the resettlement program
• FMS chief proposes to create “civilized migration”
• The number of qualified foreign specialists in Russia has doubled
• Finding jobs in Russia will get easier for foreign students
• Migrant workers will be obliged to buy medical insurance
• 3.5 million people work in Russia illegally
• Rules of entry and residence for migrants to Russia will be tightened
• Fines for violations have been increased for migrants in Moscow and St. Petersburg
• Foreigners who have been deported or have outstanding convictions will be denied entry to Russia
• Over 2 thousand migrants deported from Moscow during six-month period
• Has the expulsion mechanism for illegal migrants paid off?
• Russians believe that immigrants increase crime rates
• Migrant families can be assimilated in Russia more easily
• Tobacco control measures in Russia will save 3.7 million lives over 40 years
• In Russia 100 thousand young people die each year from drug use
• In Russia the number of persons suffering simultaneously from tuberculosis and HIV rose in 2012
• Russia’s chief oncologist calls for cancer testing of population
• In Russia nearly 50 abortions for every 100 births
• Mizulina decides to fine doctors for violating abortion procedures
• Putin demands that Ministry of Health work on improving the Mandatory Medical Insurance system
• The Ministry of Health is preparing a three-year program of free medical care in Russia

Eurasian panorama

• Life expectancy is Kazakhstan has exceeded 69 years
• In Tajikistan over 4 thousand couples have divorced in six-month period
• Citizens of Azerbaijan can get married through internet
• In Belarus, budget for minimum subsistence level increased as of August 1
• In Belarus excise taxes on alcohol, tobacco and gasoline will nearly double
• Can Ukraine expect a devaluation of the hryvnia?
• Belarus gold reserves declined to $7.9 billion
• 4.5 million people employed in Belarus economy
• Lukashenko streamlines benefit payments for pregnancy and childbirth
• Project for Kirgizia’s accession to Customs Union is 90% ready
• Kirgizia plans to introduce electronic visas for foreign nationals
• Authorities propose to require foreign passport for entry to Moscow and Moscow region
• In the first half-year over half a million people left Tajikistan
• Tajikistan begins Russian language testing of potential migrants
• Azerbaijan deported 708 foreigners within a single week
• Georgian Patriarch hopes for solution to issue of returning refugees to Abkhazia and South Ossetia
• Nearly 500 bodies of migrants have been repatriated to Tajikistan over six-month period
• Over a thousand people died in road accidents in Kazakhstan over six-month period

World news

• Fertility in Latvia is “at a standstill”
• The proportion of Latvians in Latvia is growing
• Nearly half of Mexicans live in poverty
• Latvians pensioners demand their money back
• UNICEF urges world to introduce a uniform minimum age for marriage
• A quarter of Lithuania’s population does not own its dwelling
• The number of unemployed in the EU has reached 26.4 million
• Unemployment rate in Lithuanian villages on Belarus border is 72.7%
• Collateral for a British visa will be $4.6 thousand
• U.S. Congress will not have time to discuss immigration reform before the holidays
• Latvian government approves program for return of emigrants
• In 2012 25 thousand inhabitants left Latvia
• Have more people left Latvia than official data show?
• Two-thirds of Lithuanian residents have relatives who have emigrated
• Vietnamese Embassy considers conditions of illegal migrants detained in Moscow camp to be inhuman
• In July 1057 persons died in Iraq as a result of terrorism and violence
• The death toll in Syria has exceeded 100 thousand people
• Pope Francis speaks out against legalization of drugs
• In Uruguay, law on same-sex marriage comes into force
• In Latvia, homosexuality cannot be a reason for denying right to adopt
• In Japan, many girls born after earthquake
• In Leipzig, birth of a six-kilo girl
• China breaks 140-year-old heat record

The papers write about…

• “Vedomosti” on money for the President’s social promises
• “Moskovskie Novosti” on social policy spending
• “Vedomosti” on inequality in Russia
• “Itogi” on inter-regional inequalities in Russia
• “Vedomosti” on the “price” of China’s industrial growth in terms of human lives
• “Dengi” on the aging population as a business opportunity
• “Novye Izvestiya” on the minimum wage
• “Rossiskaya Gazeta” on the problems of the family through the eyes of V. Matvienko
• “Izvestiya” on the Ministry of Family Affairs
• “Izvestiya” on stimulating the official registration of marriages
• “Dengi” on women’s refusal to marry
• “Zerkalo” on civil marriages in Azerbaijan
• “Sobesednik” on the “week without divorce”
• “Izvestiya” on the opinion of Russians on a possible abortion ban
• “Belorusy i rynok” on abortions in Belarus
• “Zerkalo” on fertility in Azerbaijan
• “Ogonyok” on the reduction of mortality in Russia
• “Project Syndicate” on gender norms and disease
• “Den” on the health of Ukraine’s population
• “Gundogar.org” on the population of Turkmenistan
• “Kommersant” on migration and demography in Russia
• “Izvestiya” on the point system for attracting migrants
• “Izvestiya” on the initiative of the Communists to introduce visas for migrants from the CIS
• “Kommersant” on a visa regime for Moscow and the Moscow region
• “Novye Izvestiya” on registering at dachas
• “Vedomosti” on citizenship for children from mixed marriages with foreigners
• “Rossiskaya Gazeta” and “Kommersant” on competition between Russians and migrants
• “Kommersant” and “Vedomosti” on detention camps for migrants in Moscow
• “Vecherni Bishkek” on the intimidation of migrants in Russia
• “The Guardian” on “hunting” for illegal immigrants in London
• “Independent” on restrictions for asylum seekers in Switzerland
• “Telegraf” on Chechen refugees in the EU
• “La Repubblica” on obesity as a reason to deny permission to stay in New Zealand
• “Vedomosti” on migration and crime
• “Golos Rossii” on the return of compatriots to Russia
• “Novaya Gazeta” on voting rights for temporary migrants
• “Kommersant” on immigration reform in the U.S.
• “Polit.ru” on the attitude of Americans to undocumented migrants
• “Vlast” on positive racial discrimination in the U.S.
• “Haaretz” on xenophobia in Israel
• “Dengi” on the roots of migrant-phobia
• “Vedomosti” on the conflict in Pugachev
• “Russkaya Sluzhba BBC” on the problem of the “third parent”
• “Daily Mail” on pregnancy length
• “Izvestiya” on preventologists in Moscow schools
• “Ogonyok” on the modern city through the eyes of S. Sassen
• “Polit.ru” on the safeness of living in big cities
• “Metropolis Magazine” on the aging population and urban planning
• “Ogonyok” on the bankruptcy of Detroit
• “Polit.ru” on urban communities
• “Moskovskie Novosti” on gender equality in France
• “Ogonyok” on the feminization of men and the emancipation of women
• “Gizmodo” and “Le Temps” on artificial food
• “Polit.ru” on high-profile legislative initiatives

Read books and magazines

• Ten topical issues of rural Russia.  A geographer’s response
• Humans in a continental climate: biological issues
• Demography and socio-economic problems of the population
• The Russian economy in 2012.  Trends and prospects.
• European Social Statistics 2013 Edition
• Through the pages of the magazines “Narodonaselenie” (“Population”) and “Rossiskii meditsinskii zhurnal” (“Russian Medical Journal”)
• Contents of the journal “Demographic Research”

Profession: researcher

• UNECE Regional Conference ‘Enabling Choices: Population Priorities for the 21st Century’
• Second Tyuryukanova readings
• Conference of paradoxes: on the 7^th International Conference on Population Geographies, Groningen (25-28 June 2012)

New in the reading room

• Book jubilee: 35 years since the publication of the collection “Marriage, fertility and mortality in Russia and the USSR”

Student page

• Master’s in Demography: graduation and admissions in 2013