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Russia’s population grew by almost 23,000 people over first
11 months of 2013
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Finance Ministry again wants to return to discussion of the
pension age
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Around 15% of Russians will postpone retirement for the sake
of higher payouts
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Parents will have 4.5 years added to employment record for
the care of 3 children
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Putin signs law on guaranteed pension savings
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Issues concerning inheritance of funded pension to be worked
on in 2014
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State to offset costs of pensioners moving from the Far
North
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Starting in February Russians will be able to keep track of
their pension online
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Real pensions in November grew 3% compared with 2012
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Retirement pensions in Russia will rise by 8.1% in 2014
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Pensions in Russia could rise by 6.5% starting in February
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Minimum wage in Russia increased to 5554 rubles
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Maternity capital to rise to nearly 430 thousand rubles as
of January 1 2014
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Putin signs law on social services
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Moscow authorities increase welfare payments to poor families
and long-livers
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The number of foreign adoptions in Russia decreased in 2013
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In State Duma bill introduced regarding the citizenship of
children without parental care
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Duma Deputies want to ban social welfare services from
taking children away from families without a court order
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Moscow to host experiment on the allocation of apartments to
families who have adopted five or more children
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Rostrud helped legalize 200,000 jobs in 2013
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Labor Ministry will prepare proposals for employment of the
disabled
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New electronic-queue system for enrollement in kindergartens
to start working fully as of April 1
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Could Russia introduce a visa regime with neighboring countries
within the foreseeable future?
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Putin signs law on “rubber apartments”
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Russian Federation ratifies agreement on registration of migrants
from Tajikistan
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Foreigners from non-visa countries can now stay in Russia only
90 days within a six-month period
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Ministry of Transport and the Federal Customs Service will
likely share data with the FMS for keeping records on migrants
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Head of the Federal Migration Service calls 2009 immigration
level optimal
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Putin waiting for proposals to strengthen control over the
entry of foreign workers into Russia
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Stavropol may join the list of first-priority regions for the
resettlement of compatriots
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In Russia, a new system of independent evaluation of migrant
training
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Foreign students are allowed to work freely in Russia
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The number of migrants working in Moscow’s housing and utilities
sector will be reduced by one-third
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In 2013 63 thousand foreigners were deported from Russia
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Half a million foreigners are barred entry to Russia due to
violations of the law
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HRC proposes to abolish the deportation of illegal migrants
from Russia
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NGOs helping migrants to adapt will receive state aid
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Deadline for transferring detention centers for illegal migrants
from the police to the FMS has been extended
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Federation Council refuses to oblige migrants to confirm their
knowledge of the Russian language
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Nearly 13% of Russians over 15 have never tried alcohol
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In Russia over 783 thousand people living with HIV
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Russian Orthodox Church will baptize the children of surrogate
mothers, but only after their parents repent
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The projected population of Ukraine on January 1, 2014 is 45,419.8
thousand
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The population of Astana has exceeded 808,000 people
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2013 – a record for births in Ukraine
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Azerbaijan’s birth rate up in 2013
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Per capita income in Belarus rose by $395 per month
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In Kirgizia, over 100 thousand low-income families
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Kazakhstan’s poverty line at $44.4
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Non-food products will not be normalized when calculating the
subsistence minimum in Belarus
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Kazakhstan proposes to limit registration in cities
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Starting date for issuing biometric passports in Ukraine is
unknown
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Switzerland simplifies the issuance of visas to citizens of
Georgia
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Moldova and Russia will sign agreement in March on the protection
of migrants
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Belarusian authorities are preparing to support compatriots
abroad
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Around 2.6 million citizens of Uzbekistan are in Russia
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Citizens of Uzbekistan the “leaders” among foreigners barred
entry to Russia
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Over half of Moldovan guest workers have violated Russian migration
legislation
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Deportees are barred entry to Tajikistan for 5 years
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Tajikistan’s Criminal Code adopts article on “The slave trade
and slave labor”
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Anti-smoking law comes into force in Turkmenistan
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Crime rate in Moldova in 2013 was the highest in last 10 years
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EU is not forcing Georgia to recognize same-sex marriages
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Georgian Patriarch opposes surrogacy
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World population: 7.137 billion people
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In 2013, Japan’s population fell by 244,000 people
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At the beginning of 2014 2.944 million people living in Lithuania
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France’s population approaching 65 million mark
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For three consecutive years Germany’s population has been growing
thanks to migrants
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Chinese lawmakers ease birth control policy
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In France in 2013, 238 thousand marriages
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Urbanization in China will reach 60% as early as 2018
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China plans to raise the retirement age
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In 2014, pensions in Estonia will grow by almost 6%
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Lithuania decides to return pensions taken away due to crisis
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In 2014 Estonia will increase minimum wage
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In the new year Latvia has changed the size of pensions and
benefits
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The standard of living in Latvia is approaching its pre-crisis
level
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World’s most expensive city named
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Panama named best place in the world to retire
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In Tunisia, women have equal rights with men
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Nearly 5 million Americans will lose their unemployment benefits
in 2014
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Janet Yellen will help reduce unemployment in the U.S.
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In 2013, Lithuania saw record number of job vacancies
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Citizens of Romania and Bulgaria granted right to work without
restrictions in all EU countries
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EU to limit rights of unemployed migrants
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Latvia gets advice on measures to reduce its number of non-citizens
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EU issued Russians nearly 6 million visas in 2012
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Migrant workers worldwide send home to families more than $500
billion a year
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Greece told to stop the mass expulsion of immigrants
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Britain will hinder free migration from the EU
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Over 15 thousand Russians requested asylum in Germany in 2013
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Russian expats take 4th place in the number of asylum
requests in Belgium
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The number of internally displaced persons in South Sudan more
than 400 thousand
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British authorities will oblige migrants and foreigners to
pay for medical treatment
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Researchers put number of smokers worldwide at nearly a billion
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The number of cancer patients in Britain reaches historic high
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Russia has allocated over $120 million to combat infant mortality
in the world
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By 2050 over half of Britons will be overweight
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World salt consumption twice the WHO norm
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New York State allows use of medical marijuana
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Iraq will not impose moratorium on the death penalty
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Nigeria signs law against gay marriage
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ECHR calls discriminatory Italy’s practice of forcing children
to take their father’s surname
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Iran bans online chatting between unrelated men and women
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“Polit.ru” on the social well-being of the Russian regions
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“Ekspert” on the “Russian cross”
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“Novye Izvestiya” on fertility tax incentives
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“Rossiyskaya gazeta – Nedelya” on possibilities for using the
maternity capital
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“Rossiyskaya gazeta” on economic support for large families
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“Nezavisimaya gazeta” on state paternalism and social issues
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“Nezavisimaya gazeta” on changes in China’s socio-economic
policy
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“Nezavisimaya gazeta” on migration in Russia and the world
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“FINANCE.UA” on migration in the world
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“Slon.ru” on the economics of migration
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“Kommersant dengi” on the consequences of the events in Biryulevo
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“Rossiyskaya gazeta-Nedelya” on expanding the system of patents
for migrants
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“Kommersant” on migrants in retail trade
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“Izvestiya” on Russian street cleaners
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“Rossiyskaya gazeta” on labor migration in Moscow and Saint
Petersburg
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“FINANCE.UA” on migration from Ukraine
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“Kommersant.md” on labor migration from Moldova
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“Karavan” and “Paruskg.info” on labor migration in Kazakhstan
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“Vremya” on internal migration in Kazakhstan
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“Telegraph” on lifting restrictions on work in the EU for unskilled
workers from Bulgaria and Romania
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“WirtschaftsWoche Heute” on migration in Germany and the EU
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“IRNA” on the hijab in Iran
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“Slate.fr” on the hijab in France
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“ABC” on harassment of Christians
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“The Atlantic Cities” on studying migration through online
networks
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“Nezavisimaya gazeta” on special features of the salary of
ambulance doctors
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“Moskovskie novosti” on downshifting
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“Novye izvestiya” on the material conditions of Russians
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“Novye izvestiya” on food expenses in different countries
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“Kommersant-dengi” on pension reform in 2013
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“Novye izvestiya” on nursing homes
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“Meditsinskaya gazeta” on the problems of aging
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“The Guardian” on marriage myths
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“Asahi Shimbun” on matriarchy
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“Slovo.kg” on men and women in Kirgizia
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“Die Zeit” on genotyping
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“BBCRussian.com” on the same birthday for all
