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Current topic: The shrinking world of Russian

• Great, mighty…mythical?

• Demographic changes aren’t good for the Russian language

• Fewer and fewer pupils being taught in Russian

• Professional education in Russian in post-Soviet countries

• The study of Russian outside the former U.S.S.R.

Eurasian demographic barometer

• The population of the Commonwealth at the beginning of 2013 was 279 million people

• In the population change of most CIS countries the decisive factor is natural increase

• In 2005-2012 most CIS countries saw an increase in fertility

• Despite a decline in 2005-2012, mortality in the CIS remains relatively high

Through the eyes of analysts

• Languages of the world in a hundred years

• Foreign students in Russian universities

• The Russian language in the Ukrainian republic

• Russians in Moldova: socio-demographic transformations

• Particularities of adaptation of Russians in Kazakhstan

• Identity and ethnic attitudes of Russians in their own ethnic environment and in others

• The migrant services market in the Russian provinces: participants and development trends

New in video

• Vladimir Putin on migration.  Speeches and pronouncements  from different years

On-line polling

• The identity of Russians

• What diploma is essential for success?

• On the quality of education

• The “mobility” of Russians, the telephone and e-mail

Results of previous polling

• Should divorce be taxed?

In the vastness of Russia

• Russia records natural population growth over summer

• Mortality in Russia dropped 4.6% over past year

• New pension formula will make it necessary to work both a long time and for your “white” salary too

• Pension reform will only work in full for those who begin working in 2015

• By 2030 the average pension will be 2.5 times that of the minimum subsistence level

• The pension savings co-financing program will be prolonged until 2016

• Russians need additional safeguards to preserve their retirement savings

• 100 billion rubles budgeted for public sector wage increases in 2014

• The Federal Service for the Execution of Punishment  may increase the wages of prisoners

• 500 thousand children in line for places in kindergarten, says Medvedev

• Are Russian officials ready for possible problems on the labor market?

• Official unemployment in Russia down 3.8% in September

• State Duma supports bill regarding fingerprints in Russian passports for traveling abroad

• Draft law on fingerprinting visitors to Russia has been submitted to Duma

• About 11 million foreign citizens and stateless persons in Russia

• Does Russia’s conception of migration policy fully meet global challenges?

• Migrants must respect the laws, language, culture and traditions of Russia

• The introduction of visas for migrant workers will be possible only after 2015

• Migration legislation must not have dead ends

• Medvedev has increased the quota for foreigners wishing to study in Russia

• In past three years 3.5 million migrants have received legal status in Russia

• State Duma to propose “road map” of measures to combat illegal immigration

• FMS proposes to prohibit the resale of quotas for migrant workers

• Employers will be obliged to provide voluntary medical insurance policies for migrant workers

• Sobyanin proposes to impose a tax on employers of migrant workers

• FMS proposes criminal punishment for employing illegal migrant workers

• Should employers be obliged to ensure the registration of migrants, but not at their legal address?

• Only one in ten Muscovites is ready to rent to foreign workers

• In Moscow this year have been opened 650 criminal cases of organizing illegal immigration

• A resident of the Vladimir region has registered a thousand migrants

• Conditions of detention of illegal migrants prior to deportation will be specified by law

• Every day about 2 thousand persons are banned from entering Russia

• Proposal to deny entry to migrants even for crossing on a red light

• Will the level of tolerance towards other nationalities continue to grow?

• Russians have begun consuming less alcohol

• Immunization of infants against pneumococcal disease will become mandatory

• In Primorye the dose of the drug in the Mantoux test was 2500 times too high

• Mass medical check-ups show over 30% of Russians to be healthy

• Russia to see laws encouraging voluntary medical check-ups

• 52.6 billion rubles to be allocated for the construction of perinatal centers

• Average waiting time of children for high-tech medical care should not exceed two weeks

• Medvedev approves program to improve road safety until 2020

Eurasian panorama

• Over 8 months in 2013 the population of Ukraine declined by nearly 100,000 people

• In Kirgizia, the largest number of poor people live in the south

• Armenia to develop strategy to increase salaries over next five years

• Yanukovich promises significant increase in size of pensions in Ukraine

• In November residents of Kirgizia will receive over $7 million in social benefits

• Ukraine needs to modernize its enterprises even at the cost of drastic job cuts

• Uzbekistan introduces additional guarantees of employment

• New migration rules in Moldova will not affect residents of Transdniestria

• One-third of respondents in Armenian poll intend to leave the country

• Over the past 5 years more than 35 thousand people have moved from Russia to Belarus

• Uzbekistan leads among countries from which nationals are returning to Russia

• External labor migration from Kirgizia has become massive since 2000

• Almost 40% of labor migrants from Kirgizia do not fill out registration documents in Russia

• Migrants from Tajikistan will be able to obtain a work permit in the Russian Federation for a period of up to three years

• Ban on remittances to Central Asia is legal nonsense

• Moratorium on remittances to Central Asia will not affect the cash outflow from Russia

• Remittances to Georgia in September rose by 14.6%

• Azerbaijan threatens “appropriate measures” against Russians living there

• Uzbekistan in 47^th place in world slavery ranking

• Nazarbayev orders switch to the Kazakh language for paperwork in Kazakh-speaking regions

• Cases of anthrax reported in Armenia

World news

• One in five French people do not know how much longer they must work until their pension

• Belgium won’t be able to pay pensions starting in 2018

• Women lawyers in Britain earn a third less than men

• Spain believes that negotiations with Russia will speed up the decision on adoptions

• In Latvia, an increase in the number of adoptions

• Quality of life in Riga has improved over past four years

• Unemployment rising in Turkey

• In Britain live over 600 thousand unemployed immigrants from the EU

• Law on dual citizenship in Latvia excludes the possibility of Russian citizenship

• Latvia will after all limit the program to provide residence permits to foreigners in exchange for investments

• Should the abolition of visas between Russia and the EU not be abruptly sped up?

• White House demands that the lower house pass immigration reform

• EU to create rapid reaction group on migration issues

• In Washington, a discussion of Russian migration problems

• Russians lead in number of asylum requests in EU countries

• Over 70 thousand people illegally crossed EU borders in 2012

• Half a million Christians have fled Syria

• 2014 will see an increase in the flow of refugees from Afghanistan to Central Asia

• EU to provide Italy additional 30 million euros to solve its refugee problem

• A group of refugees from different countries has begun hunger strike in Berlin

• Over 100,000 women are sexually exploited in Turkey

• Almost 50 million Europeans suffer from mental disorders

• 35.6 million people worldwide suffer from dementia

• Almost 300 million people worldwide have various forms of visual impairment

• U.S. Republicans still want to repeal health care reform

• Obama agrees to discuss with Republicans some aspects of health care reform

• The president of Ecuador  threatens to resign if abortion is legalized there

• Human rights activists have filed a lawsuit against the United Nations in connection with cholera in Haiti

• By 2030 40% of the world population could be short of drinking water

• Scientists discover genetic basis of emotional satisfaction from marriage

The newspapers write about…

• “Kommersant” on Biryulevo and attitudes towards migration

• “Polit.ru” and “Russkaya Sluzhba RFI” on the situation in Biryulevo

• “Gazeta.ru” on Sobyanin and Biryulevo

• “Novaya Gazeta” on the possibility of a Biryulevo in Europe

• “Rossiyskaya Gazeta”, “Nezavisimaya Gazeta” and “Vedomosti” on visas for CIS countries

• “Nezavisimaya Gazeta” on Russia’s economic losses due to illegal migration

• “Kommersant.md” on closing entry to Russia for citizens of Moldova

• “Vedomosti” on the right of Tajikistan’s citizens to work for three years

• “Deti Mail.Ru” on children of migrants and schools

• “Novye Izvestiya” on kindergartens for children with temporary registration

• “Kommersant” and “Gazeta.ru” on remittances of migrants

• “Moskovskie Novosti” on the EU’s discontent with UK migration policy

• “Kommersant.md” on the European integration of Moldova and Transdniestria

• “Novye Izvestiya” on investments in residence permits in Spain

• “Telegraf” on Chinese rentiers in Latvia

• “The New York Times” on migration from London

• “Atlantico” on migration from Paris to the provinces

• “Der Spiegel” on the death of refugees in Lampedusa

• “Gazeta.ru” on the Federal Program  to improve road safety

• “Gazeta.ru” on the cost of cancer to the EU

• “Gazeta.ru” on excessive mortality in Irak

• “Slon.ru” on the victims of famine in North Korea

• “Novye Izvestiya” on the causes of mortality among women

• “Meditsinskaya Gazeta” on maternal and infant mortality in Belarus

• “Meditsinskaya Gazeta” on perinatal centers

• “Nezavisimaya Gazeta” on the demographic situation and population projections

• “Kommersant” on parental leave and the length of service for one’s pension

• “Novye Izvestiya” on reconsidering the attitude to nursery schools

• “Zerkalo.az” on the merging of schools in Azerbaijan

• “Ekspress-K” on the program to encourage childbirth in Kazakhstan

• “Zerkalo.az” on selective abortion in Azerbaijan

• “Slate.fr” on the “silver economy” and gerontology marketing

• “Novye Izvestiya” on the quality of life of the elderly

• “JB Press” on the problem of aging in China

• “Vedomosti” on the possible consequences of the latest pension reform

• “Gazeta.ru” on the fight against aging

• “Moskovskie Novosti” on Moscow as a city

• “Zerkalo.az” on overpopulation in Baku

• “Opec.ru” on loneliness in cities

• “Slon.ru” on regional problems in Russia

• “Ogonyok” on believers without a church

• “Vatican Insider” on religions in China

• “Polit.ru” on ethical aspects of surrogate motherhood

• « The Huffington Post » on languages

• “The Washington Post” on Malala Yusufzai

Read books and magazines

• Russian language at the turn of the 21^st  century

• Student migration from CIS countries and the Baltic States: potential and prospects for Russia

• The world of the elderly and how to make it more comfortable

• Demographic Yearbook of the Kirgiz Republic: 2008-2012

• Ethno-demographic processes and the resettlement community in Russia’s east: Past and Present

• Through the pages of the journals “Demographiya ta sotsialnaya ekonomika” (“Demography and Social Economy”) and “Statistika Ukrainy” (“Statistics of Ukraine”)

• Contents of the “Journal of International Migration and Integration”

From the archive folders

• On doctoring the 1939 census

Profession: researcher

• From an aging society to a society for all ages.  The first national conference on aging

• Health care and migrant.  Round table at the Independent Press Center

• Demographic development: challenges for social policy.  Demographic issues at the Kishinev conference

• In memory of Vladimir G. Kostakov