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Current topic: The regional capitals and the hinterland

• Remember the centers, but don’t forget the periphery

• Administrative-territorial units of different orders

• The farther from the center, the greater the decline in population

• Does the population resilience of peripheral cities depend on their size?

• The rural provinces are emptying out everywhere

• Peripheral Russia is “contracting”, but in different ways

• Links to current topic

• Topics of previous issues

Eurasian demographic barometer

• The urban population of the CIS, 2013

• 65% of the CIS population lives in urban areas, but the indicator value varies from 26% in Tajikistan to 76% in Belarus

• Urbanization rates have slowed down in most CIS countries

• In some CIS countries the urban population is younger than the rural one, while in others it is older

• In the urban population of CIS countries women are, as a rule, in the majority.  The exception is Tajikistan

Through the eyes of the analysts

• Out-of-the-way places of central Russia: how they are formally idenitified

• “Neither here nor there”: the suburbs of Irkutsk as a space for development

• Census data at the municipal level: limitations and problems of analysis as exemplified by the Moscow region

• The experience of large-scale socio-demographic research into the Tver region’s rural districts

• Centro-peripheral migration interactions in Central Russia

• An estimate of the number of internal guest workers   in Russia’s small cities

• Change in population size of urban and rural settlements of the Central Federal District

Letter to the editor

• Criticism and critics (once more on the Demographic Encyclopedia)

On-line polling

• The world is worried about terrorist attacks and global warming

• Russians on migration and ethnic tension

• Amnesty for migrants: pros and cons

• The maternity capital

• Orthodoxy in Russia: past and present

• Russians on the Russian Orthodox Church

In the vastness of Russia

• The population of Russia has increased by 219 thousand people since the start of the year

• By 2030 the age dependency ratio will be 824 per 1000

• Most Russians consider the country’s demographic situation dangerous

• Rosstat release last volume with results of the 2010 Census

• The number of orphans in Russia over the past six years has decreased by 41%

• Russians have adopted 2.5 times more children than foreigners

• 7 billion rubles needed each year for children not receiving alimony

• State Duma adopts bill on pension reform on first reading

• Kudrin blasts pension reform

• Topilin explains why the pensions of working pensioners will not be “frozen”

• The average number of work years at retirement is 34.5

• The Ministry of Labor has calculated the pension of mothers with many children and 30 years of employment

• Foreign citizens will receive a social pension after 15 years of residence in the Russian Federation

• Small towns are increasingly lagging behind big ones in terms of living standards

• The Ministry of Labor registers a high level of unemployment in 51 monotowns

• The number of unemployed in Russia has increased by two thousand since early November

• 13% of citizens would like to leave Russia

• Work visas will not solve the problem of migrants in the Russian Federation, says Kudrin

• 50,000 migrants worked in Moscow’s liquidated markets

• FMS will track illegal migrants through the database of scanned passports

• Should company execs help in the hunt for “rubber apartments”?  

• Sobyanin announces a rise in ethnic and non-resident crime in Moscow

• The Ministry of Education and Science will make the exam for migrants tougher

• A bill is in the works for state support of NGOs involved in assimilating migrants

• FMS comes up with explanation why migrants irritate Russians

• In Moscow, a program is being developed to deal with ethnic issues of kindergartens

• 2013 sees 54,000 new cases of HIV

• Russia introducing fines for smoking in unauthorized places

• Mass health examinations have helped identify cancer at an early stage

• More than 14,000 teenage abortions were performed in Russia over past year

• Smoking and abortions increase the risk of preterm delivery

• The Ministry of Health has not approved an initiative to ban free abortions

• The State Duma bans advertising of abortion

• ROC Head of the Commission on the Family is against government funding of IVF

• Should surrogacy in Russia be regulated?

• The share of happy Russians has increased by 30% over last 23 years

• In Ingushetia, fine for bride-kidnapping to increase 20-fold

Eurasian panorama

• The population of Ukraine as of October 1 was 45.5 million people

• The population of Kirgizia is 5.7 million people, an increase of 650 thousand over past 10 years

• Ukraine to create a single demographic population register

• In Belarus a draft decree on introducing a “tax on freeloaders”

• The number of unemployed in Kirgizia is over 200 thousand

• In Kirgizia, the most in-demand profession is that of plumber

• Uzbekistan plans to create 983.6 thousand jobs in 2014

• The employment rate in Tajikistan is 59%

• 2402 Kirgiz people have received Russian citizenship since the start of the year

• Could Central Asia see a social explosion within a year?

• Ukraine’s Foreign Ministry explains why citizens of Ukraine may not be allowed in Russia

• 20 thousand Ukrainians denied entry to Russia

• Over 1000 families from Tajikistan have applied for resettlement in the Russian Federation

• Delaying the entry of Kirgizia into the Customs Union threatens its migrant workers

• Ukraine guest workers unlikely to return from Europe

• A pension system for migrant workers is planned for 2014

• 60% of migrants from Kirgizia do not have access to medical services in Russia

• Representatives from CIS countries have signed a protocol on combating criminal migration

• Many labor migrants from Kirgizia do not want to be registered in Russia

• Kazakhstan Senate proposes to fingerprint migrant workers

• Deportations from Russia have led to an increase in crime in the capital of Kirgizia

• Ukrainians are killed in roads accidents 3-4 times more often than Europeans

• Moldovans fear war, poverty and disease

World news

• Population growth in the EU in 2013 is mainly due to migrants

• The population of Latvia: 2.008 million people

• China eases one-child policy

• Lithuanians do not regret joining the EU

• The worst country for women in the Arab world

• Latvia expects wage growth

• Lithuanians undecided on which pension model they prefer

• Lawyers in Greece want to change the law on pensions for immigrants from the USSR

• U.S. unemployment is still too high

• Question of residence permits will be re-examined in Latvian Saeima

• In Estonia, the number of Finnish permanent residents has increased over past year

• Republicans refuse to consider immigration reform

• President of Latvia is not bothered by emigration from the country

• Saudi Arabia expels about 60 thousand illegals over two-week period

• Human rights activists are concerned about the exploitation of migrant workers building sports facilities in Qatar

• UN demands moratorium on deportation of Syrian refugees

• In the Philippines, about 1.4 million displaced people are forced to live on the street

• About 2.7 million residents of the Congo forced to leave their homes

• Since 2007 the number of smokers in Turkey has decreased by 4%

• The risk of cancer in Latvia has not decreased

• Sweden proposes polio vaccinations for children of Syrian refugees

• Europe flooded with antibiotic-resistant bacteria

• Experts say world has lost  battle with diabetes

• Americans discover secret of sudden infant death syndrome

• British women to be paid for breastfeeding

• U.S. House of Representatives again postpones part of health care provisions

• So far only about 100 thousand people have bought policies within U.S. health care reform

• Obamacare will leave 5 million Americans without health insurance

• Turkey lifts ban on women MPs wearing trousers

• Britain’s oldest resident dies at age 113

• U.S. Senate votes to ban discrimination against gays in the workplace

• Hawaii legalizes same-sex marriage

The newspapers write about

• “Novaya gazeta” on “four Russias”

• “Ekho Moskvy” and “Ogonyok” on seasonal work in Russia

• “Novye Izvestiya” on stimulating the unemployed to leave the monotowns

• “Kommersant” on places for registering foreigners in Moscow

• “Izvestiya” on automating the registration of foreigners

• “Rossiyskaya gazeta” on rubber apartments and discrimination against internal migrants

• “El Pais” on residence registration in China

• “Kommersant” on the adaptation of migrants in Russia

• “Izvestiya” on the Ministry of Education and Science’s  unified exam for migrants

• “Kommersant-Dengi” on migration and inequality in the world

• “BelGazeta” on international migration in Belarus

• “Sovietskaya Belorussiya” on a readmission agreement between Russia and Belarus

• “Komsomolskaya Pravda – Kyrgyzstan” on an agreement for voluntary resettlement between Russia and Kirgizia

• “Ekspress-K” on labor migration in Kazakhstan

• “Den” on educational migration from Ukraine

• “Vedomosti” on the reduction of migration from east to west Germany

• “Biznes & Baltiya” on residence permit quotas in Latvia

• “Slate.fr” on the price of a Maltese passport

• “Radio Svoboda” on xenophobia and nationalism in Russia

• “Novaya Gazeta” on pogroms and civil solidarity

• “Slon.ru” on “politics of multiculturalism”

• “Moskovskie novosti” on the geography of crime in Moscow

• “Rossiyskaya Gazeta” on foreign crime in Moscow

• “Rossiyskaya Gazeta” on the concept of public security

• “CBS” and “Vedomosti” on easing China’s “one-child” policy

• “Rossiyskaya Gazeta” on the Ministry of Health’s attitude to the ban on free abortions

• “Rossiyskaya Gazeta” on preterm babies

• “Rossiyskaya Gazeta” on taking away the driver’s licenses of alimony defaulters

• “Slon.ru” on life expectancy

• “Kommersant” on modernizing Moscow’s health care system

• “Panorama” on a drop in the number of HIV/AIDS cases in Kazakhstan

• “Ekspert” on the dangers of smoking

• “Slon.ru” on aviation insecurity

• “Den” on victims of road accidents in Ukraine

• “El Pais” on violent deaths in Latin America

• “Kommersant-Vlast” on the quality of life

• “Kommersant-Dengi” on the informal labor market

• “Forward” on Jews and Jewish culture

• “Ekho” on plans for Greater  Baku

• “Gundogar.org” on controversial census results in Turkmenistan

• “Le Monde” on early marriages in Yemen

• “Vedomosti” on women’s careers in Russia

• “Novye Izvestiya” on quotas for women in Germany

• “Time” on American teenagers and condoms

Read books and magazines

• The geography of population and social geography

• The Russia’s out of the way places: models and methods of study

• In the shadow of the big city: the social space of the suburb

• Internal guest workers

• International migration, health and human rights

• Through the pages of the journals “Regionalnye issledovaniya” (“Regional studies”) and “Narodonaselenie” (“Population”)

• Contents of the “Journal of Population Economics”

Profession: researcher

• On the 30^th anniversary of the death of Frank W. Notestein