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Current topic: The newest  type of mortality

• The history of automobilization is a history of traffic accidents

• Road accident  risks in the language of formulas and models

• Automobilization and road accident  risks

• Russia will reach Europe’s level of road safety in 50 years

• While we are catching up with developed countries, hundreds of thousands will die under the wheels of cars

• Scenarios of the future

• Conclusion

• Links to current topic

• Topics of previous issues

Russian demographic barometer

Morbidity of the Russian population, 2012-2013

• In 2012, morbidity of the Russian population as a whole remained at approximately the same level as in 2011

• In 2013, the incidence of acute intestinal infections decreased by 2%, while that of acute upper respiratory tract infections increased by 7%

• The number of TB cases has continued to decline, while that of disease from HIV continues to increase

• The incidence of alcoholism, drug and substance abuse continues to decline, but regional differences remain significant

• The number of accidents on the road and at work is slowly decreasing

Through the eyes of the analysts

• Problems of the reliability of statistics on mortality from traffic accidents

• The main risk factors for road traffic accidents

• Trends in mortality from external causes of death in Russia in 1990-2010

• The affordability of alcohol and alcohol-related mortality in Belarus

• Death as something newsworthy

Q&A

• What problems are worrying Russians

• City life and country life

• Most Russians do not believe in mass health examinations in free clinics

• Russians do not expect material benefit from family life

• Planning the family budget

• Russians on traveling abroad

In the vastness of Russia

• The population of Russia in 2013 increased by 320 thousand people

• In February 3.7% more children were born than in the same period last year

• Fertility in Chechnya is almost five times higher than mortality

• Siluanov reiterates need to raise the retirement age

• Shokhin proposes to equalize the retirement age for men and women

• Golodets rejects Ministry of Finance idea to raise the retirement age

• The average pension in Russia has increased over the month by 5.3%

• Online personal accounts in the public services system will start working in 2015

• Pensions of Crimeans to be raised to Russian level in July 2014

• Ministry of Labor has drafted a law regulating the pensions of residents of Crimea

• Subsistence level set at 7326 rubles in fourth quarter of 2013

• Government not planning to cut social programs

• The problem of waiting-lines for places in kindergartens should be solved within the next two years

• 86% of children in Russia receive preschool education

• In Russia, the number of persons deprived of parental rights is decreasing every year

• The situation on the Russian labor market is stable

• Government promises to create 14.2 thousand jobs for the disabled

• About 80,000 Crimeans have received Russian passports

• Russians passports in Crimea are being issued without state tax

• Around 60% of Russians have never crossed the borders of the former USSR

• State Duma approves simplified procedure for issuing citizenship to compatriots

• Fine to be imposed for failure to report second citizenship

• Russia’s migration policy does not discriminate against Ukrainians

• Russians will be happy to welcome migrants from Ukraine

• 685 thousand foreigners denied entry to Russia for various violations

• FMS proposes to raise the minimum age for fingerprinting children of foreigners to 12 years

• Professional foreign drivers must have a Russian license

• In Russia in January nearly 5 thousand new cases of HIV

• 60% of Russians think HIV-positive people should be isolated

• Drug addicts in the Crimea will be treated according to Russian standards

• 329.5 million rubles to be allocated for fight against measles and rubella

• 16 Russian tourists returned from vacation with dengue fever

• Medvedev urges people to be more solicitous towards people with autism

• Most Russians do not take advantage of free mass health examinations

• Ministry of Health report on programs to modernize healthcare

• Russian health care system is set for a “reset”

• Health care system in Crimea must be restructured

• 800 medical and obstetric stations to be opened in Russia’s rural areas

• Patriarch Kirill calls attempts to choose one’s own gender a morbid fantasy

Eurasian panorama

• The  difference in life expectancy between Belarusian men and women is 10.5 years

• Kirgizia plans to raise retirement age for women to 60 years

• New pension system will operate in Armenia unchanged only until September 30

• Kazakhstan’s pension funds have merged into one corporation

• In Tajikistan, nearly a third of the population is undernourished

• 62.5% of Ukrainians today are generally not satisfied with their lives

• Will Russia, Kazakhstan and Belarus have a single currency by 2025?

• In Kirgizia, the number of working days may be increased

• Ukraine government abolishes employment bureau

• Registered unemployment rate in Belarus is 0.5%

• Georgia simplifies procedures for obtaining and terminating citizenship

• Gagauzia asks Putin to simplify procedures for granting citizenship to guest workers

• Six residents of Crimea decided to keep their Ukrainian citizenship

• EU to introduce visa-free regime for Moldova starting April 28

• Migration regime between Russia and Kazakhstan will become even more favorable

• Armenia and Russia have not yet come round to easing migration rules

• Citizens of Ukraine will not be required to show their financial means when entering Russia

• 1,407 settlers from Crimea and southeast Ukraine have requested temporary refuge in the Lviv region

• Remittances from Russia to Tajikistan in 2013 exceeded $4 billion

• The Law on Languages in Ukraine should be left alone, says Tymoshenko

• USAID training ambulance service in Armenia

• Switzerland to allocate 46 million euros to Moldova for the development of healthcare, water supply and sanitation

World news

• Demographic changes could make Northern Cyprus completely Turkish

• Filipinos now entitled to free contraceptives

• Half of families in Greece live on incomes of less than 800 euros a month

• 75 million college graduates worldwide have problems finding jobs

• Unemployment in Italy more than 13%

• Is a solution to the problem of statelessness in Estonia long overdue?

• In the last three years more than 800 people have renounced Latvian citizenship

• European Commission will require EU member states to increase legal immigration quotas

• The number of Syrian refugees in Lebanon has exceeded 1 million people

• UN Secretary General demands a stop to ethnic and religious cleansing in the Central African Republic

• Finnish researchers established  norm for alcohol consumption by men

• British doctors will treat drug addicts using cash incentives

• Over half of deaths from ischemic stroke attributable to China, Russia and India

• WHO announces the eradication of polio in 11 countries in South and Southeast Asia

• The number of victims of Ebola in West Africa has exceeded 100

• In Estonia, over 1000 cases of infection from ticks registered every year

• Over past four years the number of children diagnosed with autism has increased by 40%

• Plenty of fruits and vegetables in your diet cuts the risk of death almost in half

• A stressful family environment shortens telomeres in children

• April 7: World Health Day

• UN calls for limiting global temperature rise to 2°C

• British throw away up to 15 million tons of food a year

• China has developed an early warning system for dangerous levels of air pollution

• Crime rate in New Zealand falls to lowest level in 29 years

• Australia officially recognizes third gender

• Norwegian Church refuses to marry same-sex couples

• Teens between ages of 12 and 18 are the most vulnerable to the influence of social networks

The newspapers write about….

• “Slon.ru” on demographic achievements of the Russian government

• “Kommersant” on life expectancy and causes of death

• “Slon.ru” on causes of death in Russia

• “Slon.ru” on the reform of Russian medicine

• “Meditsinskaya gazeta” on the fight against tuberculosis

• “Vecherniy Bishkek” on population growth in Kirgizia

• “Rossiyskaya Gazeta” on the change in China’s population policy

• “Telegraf” on the Danish means of increasing fertility

• “Rossiyskaya Gazeta” on measures to support fertility in the regions

• “Izvestiya” on a minimum alimony

• “Izvestiya” on free higher education for a third child

• “Nezavisimaya Gazeta” on unteachable students in the regional universities

• “Meditsinskaya Gazeta” on abortion

• “Nezavisimaya Gazeta” on migration policy in Russia

• “Moldnews.info” on Moldova’s attitude to Russian migration policy

• “Izvestiya” on new rules for hiring foreign workers

• “Kommersant” on detention centers for illegal immigrants

• “Izvestiya” on paying for treatment of migrants

• “Izvestiya” on toughening entry for foreign debtors

• “Novye Izvestiya” on fingerprinting children of migrants

• “Liter.kz” on migration policy in Kazakhastan

• “Gorod.lv” on residence permits in exchange for investment in Latvia

• “Corriere della Sera” on possible employment restrictions in Germany for Bulgarians and Romanians

• “Kommersant” on temporary labor migration in Russia

• “Novye Izvestiya” on simplified procedure for obtaining Russian citizenship

• “Russkiy reporter” on Russian compatriots abroad

• “Vecherniy Bishkek” on promoting the repatriation of ethnic Kirgiz

• “Kommersant” on migrants and refugees from Ukraine

• “REGNUM” and “Novye Izvestiya” on dual citizenship

• “FINANCE.UA” on the alienness of multiculturalism and tolerance for Russia

• “Russkaya Sluzhba RFI” on racism in France

• “Slon.ru” on migration, identity and integration

• “Nezavisimaya Gazeta” on sustainability and problems of the Russian pension system

• “Paruskg.info” on raising the retirement age in Kirgizia

• “Courier.co.il” on the resistance of Israeli employers to raising the retirement age

• “Asahi Shimbun” on the coming desolation of the Japanese heartland

• “Independent” on atheist terrorists

• “Novye Izvestiya” on groom kidnapping in eastern India

• “The Daily Beast” on infidelity in Japanese marriage

• “IRINN” on the consequences of the sexual revolution in the USA seen through the eyes of Iran

• “Le Huffington Post” on the condition of women in Afghanistan

• “Radio Praha” on prostitution in the Czech Republic

• “DUNYA” on the consequences of global warming

Read books and newspapers

• World Mortality Report 2013

• World Population Ageing Report 2013

• UNAIDS report on the global AIDS epidemic, 2013

• The social status and standard of living of the Russian population, 2013

• Demography.  An educational and practical manual

• Through the pages of the journals “Sotsialnye aspekty zdorovya naseleniya” (“Social aspects of public health”) and “Mirovaya ekonomika i mezhdunarodnye otnosheniya” (World Economy and International Relations”)

• Contentions of the journal “Population”

Profession: researcher

• Demographic sessions at the 15th April International Scientific Conference of HSE

• Valentina Steshenko passes away

• 80 years since the birth of Gerard Calot

Student page

• Selected essays.  Demographic behavior of ethnic groups of internal migrants in Ugra