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Current topic: Children in traffic accidents

• The rapid decline in mortality and injuries of children on Russia’s roads has stalled in the last few years

• Russia lags far behind other countries in reducing child mortality from traffic accidents

• Child mortality’s contribution to the overall structure of mortality from traffic accidents in Russia is comparable to that of other countries

• The child population and the number of children victims of traffic accidents: is there a link?

• Child mortality from traffic accidents varies by age and gender

• The most dangerous time of day is evening, the most dangerous days Friday and weekends

• Around 40% of traffic fatalities of Russian children occur during the summer

• Since 2006 the main risk group in Russia of children involved in traffic accidents has become child passengers

• Conclusion

• News flash: the young Tutankhamun died in a road accident

• Links to current topic

• Topics of previous issues

• World demographic barometer

• Global trends in infant mortality 1990-2012

• Millennium Development Goals set task of reducing child mortality by 2015 by two-thirds of its 1990 level; in 2012 the reduction was 47%

• Infant mortality has decreased by 44 %, neonatal by 37%

• A decrease in the share of children under 5 dying of intestinal disorders and certain infections, but an increase in the proportion of deaths due to prematurity, birth defects and injuries

• Child mortality from measles fell by 73%, from intestinal disorders by 48 %, and from congenital malformations by only 5%

• Each year about 1.5 million children die of causes preventable by vaccination

Through the eyes of analysts

• The current state of road safety in the world

• Pedestrian mortality on Russia’s roads

• Perfecting the system of recording and analyzing the medical consequences of traffic accidents in the Voronezh region

Travels through the Internet

• Traffic accident mortality by country: an on-line map

Take care of women!

• Key factors affecting the use of contraception in Eastern Europe and

• Central Asia

• Every year in the world 7.3 million

• teenage girls become mothers

In the vastness of Russia

• Infant mortality in Russia down to 8.2 deaths for every thousand live births

• New pension formula could significantly increase pension amount

• Amendments to the laws on pension reform will be made within the next month

• The maternity capital can be used for renting housing or opening a business

• Deputy Prime Minister Olga Golodets is against tying the maternity capital in with family income

• An additional payout for a third and each subsequent  child has proven its merit

• The birth of a third and subsequent children has grown by 10% in a number of regions

• Russia has climbed to 61^st place in a British ranking of affluent countries

• In Moscow 23.5 thousand unemployed registered for 140.9 thousand job openings

• FMS proposes to stop issuing paper passports beginning in 2016

• Replacing ‘paper’ passports with electronic ones will give more than 120 thousand Russians access to e-services

• Formerly deported persons will not be eligible for Russian citizenship in future

• Does Russia need an immigration ombudsman?

• The effectiveness of the compatriot resettlement program will be evaluated by new criteria

• The influx of internal migrants into Moscow and its region is 120 times greater than the outflow

• FMS reports a growth in the number of those seeking jobs in Russia

• Kudrin says Russian economy can’t do without migrants

• Revised bill on “rubber” apartments submitted to State Duma

• New bill in the works to regulate the employment of foreigners

• Bill submitted to Duma regarding the stay of migrant workers from Tajikistan

• Lawmakers propose to tighten the issuance of patents for the work of foreigners employed by private individuals

• State Duma to make special requirements for migrant drivers

• The maximum stay for CIS citizens in Russia may be 90 days per 6-month period

• Vorobyov supports Sobyanin’s initiative to introduce a special migration regime

• Moscow region will support investors doing without migrant workers

• FMS does not approve of amnesty for illegal aliens

• Does the Migration Service need investigative bodies?

• An increasing number of crimes committed by foreigners in Russia

• FMS proposes to deport all foreigners with a criminal record

• Putin urges Zhirinovsky not to harm

• Russian values

• Doctors concerned about increase of cardiovascular diseases in 25 regions of Russia

• Over 20 million Russians so far have undergone mass health examinations

• Have perinatal centers contributed to the growth of fertility?

• Russians will be treated in sanatoriums

• 3.4 billion rubles allocated for tuberculosis treatment in the regions

• Golikova foresees deterioration in the quality of medical services in 2014

• Skvortsova denies that the quality of medical services may decline in 2014

• New standards set for financing free healthcare

• Private clinics have begun providing free health care twice as often as before

Eurasian panorama

• Azerbaijan’s population reaches 9442.5 thousand people

• Armenia’s population down by 10 thousand people since the start of the year

• By 2015 Moldova will take first place in the world for population decline

• Transnistria’s population declining

• In 2013 the natural decline in the population of Belarus decreased by 28%

• Life expectancy of Belarusian men in 2015 will increase by 12 years; in women, by 9

• Life expectancy in Kazakhstan has increased by 2.5 years

• Belarusians are aging rapidly

• Kirgizia authorities urge women not to have too many children

• In 2014 the cost of living in Ukraine will increase by 6.8%

• In Belarus, pensions and benefits up as of November 1^st

• In Kirgizia, the guaranteed minimum income to reach $14.5

• In Azerbaijan, families with five or more children will be paid social benefits for each child

• In Kirgizia, over 3 thousand children left without parental care

• Due to lack of kindergartens 35.2% of Kirgiz women stay at home

• The number of kindergartens in Kazakhstan will increase to 10,000

• In Kirgizia, 212 thousand people without jobs

• Moldova’s integration into the EU will be decided by popular referendum

• Moldovans will be able to get Romanian citizenship without leaving the country

• Over 70 people have received South Ossetian passports

• Internal  passports will be issued to citizens of Azerbaijan regardless of where they are registered or live

• Russians will still be able to enter Ukraine without passports for foreign travel

• Starting in November 2013 citizens of Kazakhstan will be fingerprinted for Schengen Visa

• Chisinau hopes to sign an agreement with Moscow on migration

• Over the last two years 1.2 million Ukrainians have worked abroad

• 70% of Kirgiz citizens who have left to work in Russia are working in Moscow

• In 2014 migrants from Kirgizia will have a harder time finding jobs in Kazakhstan

• Chinese citizens receive 67% of  the job quota in Kirgizia

• State-owned enterprises in Belarus hire Asian migrant workers

• The largest group of foreign workers in Belarus are the Chinese

• Up to 15 thousand  Meskhetian Turks want to return to Georgia

• In the first half-year over $1.6 billion in remittances sent to Tajikistan from Russia

• 30% of migrant workers’ money enters Moldavia unofficially

• Over 800 thousand women in Kazakhstan suffer from infertility

World news

• In Vietnam, 90 millionth citizen born

• Oman and Qatar are world leaders in terms of pace of population growth

• Over 30% of Estonia’s population lives in Tallinn

• In Latvia nearly 62 thousand men over 30 are living with their parents

• Control population census has begun in Bosnia and Herzegovina

• Fertility falling in Turkey

• 57 million children in world have no access to school

• In U.S., cuts in food assistance program for low-income persons

• ECHR upholds Portuguese government’s decision to reduce the pensions of civil servants

• In 2014-2015 salaries in Estonia will grow more slowly than in Latvia and Lithuania

• In Latvia parental benefits will increase

• as of next year

• 9.3 million persons in Syria are in need of humanitarian aid

• Unemployment in Italy has reached 12.5%

• One in seven people in the world is a migrant

• Canada intends to receive 265 thousand immigrants next year

• The number of illegal immigrants entering the EU through the Mediterranean has doubled

• Saudi authorities have announced raids against migrants

• USA has  secret quotas for arresting immigrants

• The number of Syrian refugees in Turkey has exceeded 600 000 persons

• Vatican discusses problem of modern slavery

• Terrorist acts in 2012 killed about 15.5 thousand people around the world

• New York to ban the sale of cigarettes to persons under 21

• Scientists expect a doubling in the number of strokes in 2030

• Syria threatened by polio

• Rickets and scurvy among British children to be eliminated  with free vitamins

• Mortality from heat waves in Europe has doubled in last 30 years

• Latvian hospitals short on money to treat patients

• Over last 400 years the percentage of “cuckolds” in Europe has not changed

The newspapers write about…

• “Novaya Gazeta” on Biryulyovo and politics

• “Kommersant-Vlast” on Sobyanin’s views on migration

• “Moskovskiy Komsomolets” on the events in Biryulyovo through the eyes of Geydar Jemal and Vladimir Tor

• “Itogi” on whether there are national enclaves in Moscow

• “News.tj” on the events in Biryulyovo through the eyes of CIS countries

• “Rossiyskaya Gazeta” on expanding the list of grounds for denying Russian citizenship

• “Kommersant” on unemployment and migrant qutoas

• “Nezavisimaya Gazeta” on the ban on selling quotas

• “Vedomosti” on making migrants pay to enter Russia

• “Izvestiya” on fines for renting housing to illegal immigrants in the Moscow region

• “Slon.ru” on “socially-oriented” anti-immigrant organizations

• “Novye Izvestiya” on new papers for migrant workers

• “Argumenty i Fakty” on an unprecedented “tolerance” towards migrants

• “Nezavisimaya Gazeta” on those responsible for ethnic crime

• “Nezavisimaya Gazeta” on ridding Sochi of migrants

• “Kommersant” on an amnesty for migrants

• “Izvestiya” on an immigration ombudsman

• “Ogonyok” and “Moskovskie novosti” on migrants and the economy

• “Belorusskiy partisan”  on migrant transfers in Belarus

• “Belorusskiy partisan” on attracting immigrants to rural areas in Belarus

• “Ogonyok” on migration in the history of St. Petersburg

• “Moskovskie novosti” on migrants in Moscow

• “Slon.ru” on seasonal migrant workers

• “Zerkalo nedeli” on the struggle against illegal migrants in the EU

• “Nezavisimaya Gazeta” on European integration and migration between Russia and Ukraine

• “Polit.ru” on the UK immigration policy

• “Zerkalo nedeli” on how British conservatives view migration

• “Kommersant” on Britain’s immigration law

• “Vedomosti” on the Australian way of understanding migrants

• “Snob” on migration studies

• “Vedomosti” on emigration from Russia

• “Bdg.by” on emigration intentions in Belarus

• “Atlantico” on tax increases and emigration from France

• “Nezavisimaya Gazeta” on a meeting of the Council for Inter-Ethnic Relations in Ufa

• “Fokus” on inter-ethnic relations in Ukraine

• “Vesti sevodnya” on Europe’s fertility champions

• “Forbes” on demographic forecasts in Russia

• “Izvestiya” on the use of the maternity capital

• “Moskovskie Novosti” on the maternity capital after 2016

• “Belarus sevodnya” on the maternity capital in Belarus

• “Kommersant” on a possible ban on free abortions

• “Rossiyskaya Gazeta” on reproductive medicine

• “Ogonyok” on giving birth abroad

• “Polit.ru” on having three parents

• “La Vanguardia” on ecology and the health of newborns

• “Moskovskie novosti” on inter-regional and intra-regional inequality in Russia

• “Novye Izvestiya” on subsidizing the regions for salaries of state employees

• “Novye Izvestiya” on the outflow of personnel from Russian industry

• “Kommersant” on the development program for  small towns

• “Moskovskie Novosti” on the pension dilemma for Russians

• “Izvestiya” on people’s lack of confidence in the pension system

• “Vedomosti” on the pension trap

• “Rossiyskaya Biznes-gazeta” on the worth  of a worker’s life

• “Ogonyok” on gender inequality

• “Toyo Keizai” on the consequences of gender equality in employment in Japan

• “Slate.fr” on sexism

• “Time” on bride kidnapping

• “Slon.ru” on the attitudes of young Japanese to sex

• “Le Temps” on introducing Sharia law in Brunei

Read books and magazines

• Health 2020: a European policy framework and strategy for the 21st century

• Demographic portrait of Hungary 2012

• Economic growth in the context of globalization

• Eurostat regional yearbook 2013

• The effects of migration on areas of destination

• Through the pages of the journals “Problemy sotsialnoy gigieny, zdravookhraneniya i istorii meditsiny” (“Problems of social hygiene, health care and the history of medicine”) and “Problemy prognozirovaniya” (“Problems of forecasting”)

• The contents of the “European Journal of Population”

Profession: researcher

• Anniversary of the HSE Institute of Demography: a quarter century of work

• History of the Institute of Demography

• Who has worked and now works at the Institute

• The structure of the Institute of Demography

• Its main areas of activity

• Research

• Conferences and seminars

• International collaboration

• Linking science and practice

• Developing demographic education

• Information and publishing

• Publications 1988-2013

• Photo album

• Low fertility and low mortality: observable reality and visions of the future. Conference of the HSE Institute of Demography

• On the publication of census data.  From a meeting of the Demographic section of the House of Scientists

Student page

• The migration of young people in Russia: how it affects the age structure.  A meeting of the student society “Demographer”

• Demographer graduates in the press