Contents of Demoscope Weekly issue

## 591-592

Current topic:  A demographic picture of Transnistria

  • Since gaining independence the republic’s population has decreased to the level of the 1920s

  • Negative changes in the age structure of the population

  • The proportion of the urban to the rural population has remained more or less the same

  • “Transnistria’s Cross”

  • Links to current topic

  • Topics of previous issues

Russian demographic barometer

  • Russia: demographic results of 2013 (part III)

  • Russia’s net migration has changed little compared with 2012, totaling 296,000 people in January-December 2013

  • Russian continues to receive its greatest net migration from migration exchange with Uzbekistan - net migration increased to 67.3 thousand people

  • The volume of internal migration continues to grow, but with an obvious slowdown compared with 2012

  • In 2013, the population of all federal subjects of the Russian Federation increased due to migration exchange with CIS countries, but only in 16 out of 83 regions was the increase due to migration exchange with other regions of Russia

  • At the end of 2013,  1,111 thousand people had work permits in Russia

Through the eyes of the analysts

  • Shaping the Moldovan diaspora: the demographic and occupational structure

  • Manpower in the Republic of Moldova in the context of demographic aging

  • Ukrainian traditionalism and the discourse of “women’s responsibility” for the low fertility

  • “Rays of light in the darkness”: social dividends of migrants from a gender perspective

Take care of women!

  • In the USA a rare case of HIV infection

In the vastness of Russia

  • Has the life expectancy of Muscovites approached European figures?

  • Average social pension to increase by 1.1 thousand rubles as of April 1

  • Salaries and pensions in the Crimea will be calculated at a rate of 3.8 rubles per hryvnia

  • Putin instructs Ministry of Labor to increase pensions to residents of the Crimea to the Russian level

  • State program of social support for Russians will require an extra 30 billion rubles

  • 5 million Russian families have received a maternity capital certificate

  • Third child payment program will operate in the Crimea

  • 390 thousand new jobs in Russian preschools in 2013

  • 68.8 thousand children in Russia declared orphans in 2013

  • Ministry of Education is prepared to increase the number of adoptions to 25,000 children per year

  • The Government has approved the implementation of the law on general civil rights of the disabled

  • In past year about 500 Russian schools have been adapted for disabled children

  • Labor shortage in Russia is 1.8 million jobs

  • Ministry of Labor proposes to return unemployment insurance

  • Ulyanovsk governor to deny welfare to “sponges”

  • FMS expects to issue Russian passports to Crimeans over three-month period

  • Crimeans renouncing Russian citizenship will be given permanent residence permits

  • Government committee approves bill on simplifying the issuance of visas to foreigners

  • The regions will be able to regulate the number of migrants by the prices of patents

  • The regions to receive 200 million rubles for the resettlement of compatriots

  • The Russian regions are ready to accept more compatriots from Ukraine than foreseen by resettlement program

  • Russia does not plan to create a migration police force

  • Extra measures are needed to prevent crimes committed by foreigners

  • Putin gives instructions to take measures to complete the rehabilitation of the Crimean Tatars

  • The incidence of tuberculosis in the past year decreased by 7.5%

  • The Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Ministry of Health have prepared proposals for returning sobering-up centers

  • The Government is developing a new procedure for mass health examinations for Russians

  • Ministry of Health has put forward new health requirements for adopters

  • In 2013, the number of crimes committed by juveniles increased by 5%

Eurasian panorama

  • Moldova’s population is 3.55 million people

  • The permanent population of Uzbekistan is 30.488 million people

  • In terms of pension level Belarus lags behind Russia and is ahead of Kazakhstan

  • 88.7% of Yerevanians are against the mandatory funded pension system

  • Minimum wage in Ukraine will be frozen

  • Average salary in Minsk is Br 1,844 thousand higher than the average for Belarus

  • Kazakhstan to increase social payments

  • Belarusians have begun eating better

  • In Moldova, a dramatic increase in demand for biometric passports

  • Ukraine will start issuing biometric passports this year

  • Ukraine signs package of decisions on visa liberalization with the EU

  • Ukraine will not rush the introduction of visa regime with Russia

  • More than two thirds of migrants from Moldova are working in Russia

  • Did nearly all Ukrainians coming to Russia last year work there?

  • FMS head believes that Ukraine is close to a humanitarian catastrophe

  • Migrants from Ukraine coming to the Crimea

  • About 3 thousand people have returned to Kazakhstan from Germany over past two years

  • Remittances to Georgia in February rose by 2.8%

  • Violations of the rights of Ukraine’s Russian-speaking population are not ubiquitous

  • Ministry of Justice of Ukraine is preparing a bill to expand the rights of the Crimean Tatars

  • Moldova intends to reduce the number of deaths from cardiovascular disease by 10%

  • Suicide attempts among young people in Kazakhstan have decreased by one third

  • 1,055 new cases of tuberculosis were registered in Armenia in 2013

  • One in five women in Belarus chooses to keep baby after abortion counseling

  • The in vitro fertilizations quota in Kazakhstan to increase in 2015

  • Belarus to check how the population spends its time

  • The most sexually active Kirgiz women are from the Talas region

  • In Georgia, children will again start school at 6

World news

  • More children being born in Latvian capital

  • Is one in nine children in Tel Aviv from a family of illegal immigrants?

  • Chile forced to repeat its census

  • Europeans on average earn 70% more than citizens of Latvia

  • In Britain, gender inequality in the wages of private lawyers

  • Do women in Lithuania earn less because they demand less?

  • Lithuania wants to reduce the number of children in orphanages

  • Estonia’s ruling coalition is ready to simplify the issuance of citizenship

  • Chinese top the list of immigrants in New Zealand

  • More than 600,000 people requested asylum in developed countries in 2013

  • Saudi authorities deported 370,000 illegal immigrants in five months

  • Lithuania and Georgia to sign agreement on the readmission of illegal migrants

  • 340,000 citizens of Southern Sudan may become refugees due to fighting

  • Is Turkey ready to give refuge to Syrian Armenians?

  • Sharia law to be adopted into UK legal system for first time ever

  • The policy of “Estonization” of Russian schools will be corrected

  • Ebola epidemic reaches capital of Guinea

  • WHO does not recommend limiting relations with Guinea because of Ebola outbreak

  • El Salvador announces threat of dengue fever

  • 1.4 thousand children die every day due to lack of access to drinking water

  • Latvian students are getting fat fast

  • Residents of Peru’s capital to protest against abortion

  • Lausanne still the most criminal city in Switzerland

The newspapers write about…

  • “Izvestiya” on the demographic situation in Russia

  • “Rossiyskaya gazeta” on the family and fertility through the eyes of the head of Rosstat

  • “Kommersant.md” on maternity and child allowances in Moldova

  • “The American Conservative” on the demographic problems of post-Soviet countries through the eyes of Buchanan

  • “Slon.ru” on life expectancy in Russia, Ukraine and other countries

  • “Kommersant” on the life expectancy of Muscovites

  • “Novye izvestiya” on the adaptation of migrant workers in Russia

  • “Kommersant” on the migration police

  • “Izvestiya” on “rubber” apartments

  • “Novye izvestiya” on issuing Russian passports in the Crimea

  • “Ogonyok” on innovations with Russian citizenship

  • “Vecherniy Bishkek” on Russian citizenship and the “Russian world”

  • “Slovo.kg” on Kirgizia’s migration problems

  • “Rossiyskaya gazeta” on the possible introduction of visas for Russians in Ukraine

  • “Kommersant.md” on liberalizing the visa exchange between Moldova and the EU

  • “Belorusy i rynok” on restricting student exchanges in response to the referendum in Switzerland

  • “AFN” on remittances to Belarus

  • “Vedomosti” on the possible promotion of internal migration and resettlement to the Far East

  • “Novye izvestiya” on mass health examinations

  • “Novaya gazeta” on putting an end to state purchases of foreign medical equipment

  • “Nezavisimaya gazeta” on private insurance in the event of serious illnesses

  • “Meditsinskaya gazeta” on female cancer mortality

  • “Erkin.net” on sanitary-epidemiological problems in Turkmenistan

  • “Novye izvestiya” on alcohol poisoning and the rise of alcohol prices

  • “Russkiy reporter” on alcohol consumption in Russia

  • “Kommersant” on the consequences of the annexation of Crimea for drug addicts

  • “Telegraf” on the problem of aging in the USA

  • “Fakty” on the social situation in Abkhazia and South Ossetia

  • “Vremya” on the abolition of children’s rights bodies in Kazakhstan

  • “Nezavisimaya gazeta” on urbanization in China

  • “Moskovskie novosti” on mobility

  • “BuzzFeed” on the possibilities of the human bodies

  • “Independent” on modern phobias

Read books and magazines

  • WHO report on global tobacco epidemic 2013

  • After the holodomor. The enduring impact of the great famine on Ukraine

  • Materials of the international scientific conference “Famine in Ukraine in the first half of the 20th century: causes and consequences (1921-1923, 1932-1933, 1946-1947)”

  • Demography.  A textbook

  • World Population Policies 2013

  • Through the pages of the journals “Narodonaselenie” (“Population”) and “Vrach” (“Doctor”)

  • Contents of the “Journal of Marriage and Family”

Profession: researcher

  • An evaluation of the consequences of demographic change on the socio-economic development of Russia, taking into account different scenarios of demographic forecasts for the period up to 2030.  Demographic section meeting of the Central House of Scientists of the Russian Academy of Sciences

  • Demographic debate.  “The need for children”: does this concept help to understand the decline in fertility in the 20th century?

  • In memory of Sergei Artobolevsky

New in the reading room

  • Dictionaries of nationalities of the all-USSR censuses of 1926, 1937, 1970 and 1979


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