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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 7th 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

 

 

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