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Current topic: Fertility growth potential in Moscow

• Fertility in Moscow – a special model

• The population’s teetering  age and gender structure

• The demographic dividend of the 1980s

• One in three Muscovites begins having children after 30

• Young internal migrants could increase fertility in Moscow

• Reproductive attitudes and childlessness

• In lieu of a conclusion

• Links to current issue

• Topics of previous issues

European demographic barometer

• EU-28: some demographic results of 2012

o   Population of the EU-28 at the beginning of 2013 totaled 505.7 million people, or 7.1% of world population

o   In 2012, the population of the EU-28 grew by 0.2%; an increase was registered in 17 countries, a decrease in 11

o   In 2012, the natural population growth of the EU-28 came to 0.4 ‰, net migration - to1.8 ‰  

o   In 2012 in the EU-28 5.2 million people were born; the total fertility rate was 1.58 children per woman

o   The share of children born to foreign women in 2012 ranged from 0 in Romania to 63% in Luxembourg

Through the eyes of the analysts

• The methodology for evaluating the contribution of migrants to the reproduction of the population of Russia based on records of civil status

• “You’re a Mother, after all”: the unavoidable heroism and inescapable guilt of motherhood

• Maternity capital: family strategies

• On the maternity (family) capital in the regions

• A comparative description of fertility among the most numerous ethnic groups of the Republic of Bashkortostan both inside and outside the region

Polls: Q&A

• Where are the world’s best places to live?

• The family and children

• The Family Protection Act: what family policy does our country need?

• Is a state monopoly on the sale of alcoholic beverages needed?

• Interethnic relations in Russia: monitoring

• Should passports stipulate ethnic origin?

In the vastness of Russia

• Population growth in Russia comes also from lowering of mortality

• Life expectancy in St. Petersburg is 73.4 years

• Real pensions in December 2013 rose by 2.9% compared with 2012

• Cabinet will expand, not shrink, use of the maternity capital

• Size of child benefit up 5% since January 2014

• UN recommends reducing the number of children taken away from families in Russia

• Russian regions to get almost 340 million rubles for prevention of orphanhood

• Experts advise not to rush with full ban on foreign adoptions

• Russia limits adoption from countries with legal gay marriage

• Orphans again to get benefits when entering university

• Overall unemployment rate in December 2013 was 5.6%

• The number of officially registered unemployed rose in mid-December by 3.2%

• Associations of employers will forecast Russia’s personnel needs

• Procedure for obtaining passport to be simplified for schoolchildren

• FMS not about to sell Russian citizenship

• Migrant students should be attracted by means of preferential citizenship

• Medvedev updates Commission on Migration Policy

• Some 26-27 thousand Russians moved abroad in 2013

• 10 million migrants in Russia

• Amnesty for migrants not planned before 2025

• State Duma approves draft law on employing only migrants with medical insurance

• Refugees will not have to obtain work permit

• Lukin considers that Russia not fulfilling its obligations to protect refugees

• UN emissary hopes for enactment of law on the protection of refugees in Russia

• In Moscow about a thousand lawsuits brought against the organizers of illegal migration

• Scientists confirm link between vodka and high mortality of men in Russia

• Infant mortality has declined in regions with perinatal centers

• The death toll from drug overdose in Moscow increased by 41% over past year

• In schools and universities there will not be comprehensive drug tests

• Oncologists differ on benefit of state mass health examinations for cancer detection

• One in four cancer patients in Russia dies within a year of diagnosis

• Around 30 thousand men in Russia get prostate cancer every year

• Incidence of cervical cancer in Russia has grown by 30% over past 10 years

• Ministry of Health’s chief pediatric oncologist foresees shortage of drugs

• Should surrogacy be allowed only for medical reasons?

• Single men may be forbidden to use the services of surrogate mothers

Eurasian panorama

• Armenia sees decrease in population and growth in number of divorces over past year

• Last year, the number of Ukrainians shrank by 113 thousand

• Belarus Ministry of Health reports on demographic success

• About 1 million ethnic Kirgiz live outside of Kirgizia

• Population density in Azerbaijan reaches 109 people

• In Belarus, 127.9 thousand people joined pension system in 2013

• Belarusian workers will be given incentives to retire later

• Kazakhstan plans to reconsider the size of the minimum wage

• Average monthly salary in Kirgizia is $229.3

• Azerbaijan increases insurance part of pensions

• Belarus raises subsistence wage budget by 7.7% as of February 1

• Belarus raises child allowances starting in February

• Public sector still dominates labor market in Azerbaijan

• European Parliament to discuss plan to abolish EU visas for citizens of Moldova

• Abkhazia simplifies visa procedure for foreigners during Olympics

• The number of Russian visas issued to Georgians grew by 40% in 2013

• Armenia removes restrictions on visas for citizens of Iraq

• Tajik Parliament allows migrants to conclude labor agreements in Russia for 3 years

• Belarus to create conditions for attracting highly qualified foreigners

• About 600 thousand Kirgiz citizens working abroad

• In 2013 Moldovan guest workers sent home 2.7 billion dollars from Russia

• Ukrainians sent 2.7 billion dollars in remittances from Russia from January through September

• The number of Armenians deported from Russia may increase

• In Moldova, smoking in enclosed public places will be completely forbidden

• Infant mortality rate in Armenia twice as low as CIS average

• By 2022, primary cancer incidence in Armenia will reach 10 thousand cases

• WHO to help Kirgiz government improve health care system

• Belarus: CIS leader in providing rehabilitation assistance

• In Azerbaijan 5 thousand underage women have been married off

• Armenian youth have become sexually active at earlier age

• Nearly half of Tajikistan’s population has access to internet

World news

• Earth’s population in 2030 will reach 8.4 billion people

• Vietnam has world’s highest rates of population aging

• Latvia: tenth in the world by share of older persons in the population

• A quarter of a billion children in the world cannot read and write

• Most illiterate adults live in India

• Latvia should urgently develop a national population program

• Latvia has not developed a proper attitude to large families

• Average salary in Japan falls to lowest level since 1990

• Lithuania makes little use of potential female entrepreneurship

• Lithuania names jobs most in demand

• 92 Latvians find permanent jobs through mobility program

• Canadian citizenship will get harder to obtain

• Malta tightens requirements for citizenship applicants

• “Romania has joined the EU together with the gypsies.”

• U.S. Republicans propose to legalize 11 million illegals

• Citizens of Switzerland have supported tightening of immigration policy

• European Commission criticizes outcome of Swiss referendum on quotas for migrants

• Over 450 thousand citizens of third world countries sought asylum in the EU in 2013

• In 2013 97 compatriots returned to Estonia with state support

• One in five buyers of real estate in capital of Estonia is a foreigner

• Central African Republic begins mass expulsion of Muslims

• The number of civilian casualties in Afghanistan has increased over the year by 14%

• UK to ban smoking in cars when children present

• Worldwide measles mortality  falls to record low

• WHO warns of global cancer ‘tidal wave’

• Every year in Estonia 3500 people die of cancer

• Belgium legalizes euthanasia for minors

• Proposal to reevaluate norms for the duration of labor

• Scottish Parliament legalizes gay marriage

The newspapers write about…

• “Vedomosti” on fertility in the world

• “Slon.Ru” on Russia’s natural population increase

• “Belarus sevodnya” on Belarus’s population growth

• “Zerkalo.az” on the demographic situation in Azerbaijan

• “Ekho” on the demographic situation in Armenia

• “Izvestiya” on a possible narrowing of the use of the maternity capital

• “Izvestiya” on “social nurseries”

• “Rossiyskaya gazeta” on the use of state mass health  examinations

• “Kommersant” on the health of Russians

• “Die Welet”, “Gazeta.ru” and “Slon.ru” on male alcohol-related mortality in Russia

• “Nezavisimaya gazeta” on budget cuts in the Federal Compulsory Medical Insurance Fund

• “The Guardian” on why worldwide cancer is on the rise

• “Kommersant” on road accident mortality

• “Slon.Ru” on corruption and child mortality

• “Kommersant” on “selling” Russian citizenship

• “Nezavisimaya gazeta” on mortgages for migrants

• “Rossiyskaya gazeta” on fighting illegal migration in Moscow

• “Rossiyskaya gazeta” on migrants and crime

• “Novye izvestiya” on remittances in the CIS

• “Lragir” and “Izvestiya” on migration and the customs union

• “Vecherniy Bishkek” on the role of migration for Kirgizia

• “Ekspert-Kazakhstan” on legalizing migrants employed by individuals in Kazakhstan

• “Ekspert-Kazakhstan” on ways to regulate labor migration in Kazakhstan

• “Izvestia.com.ua” on migration between Ukraine and Russia on foreign passports

• “Finmarket” on “lost” Europeans in Russia

• “Kommersant Dengi” on the migration of American millionaires

• “Kommersant” on immigration reform in the USA

• “El Mundo” on Spanish citizenship for Sephardic Jews 

• “La Stampa”, “Sueddeutsche Zeitung” and “Vedomosti” on the Swiss referendum

• “Izvestiya” on the possible reaction of the EU to the Swiss referendum

• “Rossiyskaya gazeta” on a “migrant” reason for British minister’s resignation

• “Novye izvestiya” on gypsies as the cause of Romania’s conflict with Sweden

• “Novaya gazeta” on internal guest workers

• “Nezavisimaya gazeta” on unemployment and the illegal labor market

• “Rossiyskaya Biznes-gazeta” on the cost of increasing the population in the Far East

• “Novye izvestiya” on the problem of dilapidated housing

• “Kommersant-Dengi” on young people living with their parents

• “Slon.ru” and “Telegraph” on the increase in the number of single people

• “Gazeta.ru” on three Canadian parents

• “DUNYA” on rich women

• “Gentside Decouvertes” on the difference in height between men and women

• “Jacobin” on gentrification

• “WirtschaftsWoche Heute” on “floating cities”

Read books and magazines

• Demographics and the national economy in Russia in the 2010s

• The Resettlement Society of Asian Russia: Migrations, Spaces, Communities

• Health and environment: communicating the risks

• A sketch of  the development of the issue of the universal population census in Russia

• Racism, xenophobia, discrimination.  How we saw them…

• Through the pages of the journals “Mediko-sotsialnaya ekspertiza i reabilitatsiya” (“Medico-social expertise and rehabilitation”) and “Vestnik RAMN” (“Bulletin of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences”)

• Contents of the Journal «International Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health»

Profession: researcher

• Multivariate forecasts of demographic development of Russia until 2030. Meeting of the Demographic section of the Central House of Scientists of the Russian Academy of Sciences

• 165 years since the birth of Arsène Dumont (1849-1902)

New in the reading room

• V.I. Diatlov, K.V.Grigorichev. The Resettlement Society of Asian Russia: Migrations, Spaces, Communities