Contents of Demoscope Weekly issue

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Current topic: Population Prospects of Russia for the Near Future

  • 36 scenarios of demographic development of Russia until 2030

  • How likely is population growth in Russia?

  • How much from the plough, how much from the spoon?

  • Dependency ratio

  • Demographic forecasts and demographic challenges

  • Links to related topics

  • Topics of previous issues

 

World demographic barometer

Aging of the population: global trends 2013

  • Aging of the world's population remains in the focus of world attention

  • Aging of the world population will accelerate in the coming decades

  • The size of cohorts in the XXI century will even out; the number of elderly persons will outnumber children in 2047

  • The demographic burden has fallen to the minimum level, but in the coming years will start to rise

  • The elderly population is aging too

Through the eyes of the analysts

  • Sustaining momentum

  • How to optimize fertility and prevent humanitarian catastrophes in Tropical Africa

  • Current  demographic trends and analytical forecasts, the problems of family demographic policy in the social state

  • Dynamics of the Russian population and its components from 2001 to 2025

  • Regional development and regional policy in Russia

  • A map of languages in the USA

 

Q&A

  • How many children  you need to be happy

  • The inner circle: brothers and sisters

  • How to maintain health

  • On alcoholism and the fight against it

  • What’s good about old age?

  • The elderly: social protection and care

  • Knowledge of foreign languages

In the vastness of Russia

  • Putin notes positive demographic trends in Russia

  • Russia sees tendency towards increase in fertility

  • Astakhov calls for protecting children from war, poverty and disease

  • State Duma wants to extend period of alimony payments to 23 years

  • Moscow allocates more than 42 billion rubles for social support of families with children and of orphans

  • Putin signs law introducing criminal liability for concealment of dual citizenship

  • Nearly 40% of schoolchildren in the Crimea have already received Russian passports

  • State Duma may require regions to justify the number of migrants

  • Proposal to clarify wording of immigration legislation of the Russian Federation

  • Stream of those entering Russia has shrunk by 17%

  • Over 800 thousand foreigners banned entrance to Russia for three years

  • FMS will take fictitiously registered foreigners off the books

  • Number of “rubber” apartments in Russia down four-fold since start of year

  • Foreigners escaping from migrant detention centers will be banned entrance to Russia

  • Muscovites to decide whether or not to provide non-residents places in kindergartens

  • Around 4 thousand Ukrainians have applied for asylum or refugee status

  • Russian Red Cross to allocate 61 million rubles to Crimea to assist refugees from Ukraine

  • Over 17 thousand new cases of HIV registered in first quarter of 2014

  • Drug use and the incidence of HIV are growing among teenagers

  • Starting June 1 Moscow to begin experiment in social rehabilitation of drug addicts

  • Number of teenage suicides in Russian Federation has been halved in past 5 years

  • Anti-smoking law significantly tightened since June 1

  • Thanks to anti-smoking law Russians are smoking 16% less

  • During 3-month period in 2014 over 8 million rubles in fines were imposed for smoking in airplanes and trains

  • Russian children are the world’s youngest steady smokers

  • Do around 6 million Russians not know they have diabetes?

  • The number of transplants in Russia has doubled

  • Will changing the Family Code save teenagers from abortions?

  • Children should be treated for cancer only in Children’s Clinics

  • Russia in need of family rehabilitation for seriously ill children

  • Compulsory health insurance system will start working in Crimea as of January 1 2015

  • Over 3.7 thousand children in Russia have become victims of crime since the start of the year

Eurasian panorama

  • By 2050 the working-age population of Moldova may be reduced by a third

  • Average age of Moldova’s population has grown by 5 years over past two decades

  • Women in Moldova live 7.5 years longer than men

  • In 2013 in Moldova 4% fewer children were born than in 2013

  • In Moldova, 5 marriages and 3 divorces for every thousand inhabitants

  • Armenian authorities will not give up on plan to introduce mandatory funded pension system

  • Almost two thirds of households don’t see their “President’s $500”

  • Subsistence minimum in Kazakhstan increased by 2.8% in May

  • Average salary in Chisinau 19.9% higher than in rest of country

  • Armenian government to allocate $600,000 for child allowances

  • In Belarus, will serfdom be revived in the countryside?

  • Kazakhstan excludes common citizenship from EAEC Treaty

  • “Armenia and Russia should work together on the problem of dual citizenship”

  • Belarus lowers consular fee for non-citizens of Estonia by 2.5 times

  • Azerbaijani parliament ratifies agreement on readmission with EU

  • Ukraine and Russia are the most attractive countries for Moldovan migrants

  • Over four-month period in 2014 41 thousand more people left Armenia than entered

  • From January to May of this year over 300 thousand citizens of Moldova entered the Russian Federation

  • The number of Tajik citizens in Russia has exceeded 1 million people

  • Border Service of Ukraine refutes claims about large number of refugees

  • Russia’s FMS is ready to provide Kirgiz government biometric data on Kirghiz working in Russia

  • Remittances to Moldova have increased compared with 2013

  • Remittances from abroad to Transnistria have gone down

  • The number of offenses committed by Kirgiz migrants in Russia is down by nearly one third

  • Rada registers draft law “On the official status of the Russian language in Ukraine”

  • Since start of war in eastern Ukraine 181 people have been killed and 293 wounded

  • In Belarus, 125 vehicles have been seized for drunken driving since the beginning of the year

  • Belarusian drug addicts have begun dying from an overdose more often

  • In Belarus, the number of smokers is decreasing

  • In Georgia, cases of viral meningitis have grown more frequent

  • Measles outbreak recorded in Kazakhstan

World News

  • Austerity is destroying the system of social protection in the EU

  • The average salary in Estonia is three times lower than in neighboring Finland

  • One in ten Latvian families facing bankruptcy

  • In England, 5 million children doomed to live in poverty

  • Women in Saudi Arabia will not be able to work between 11 pm and 9 am

  • In 2013, 30% more inhabitants left Estonia than entered

  • Jewish emigration to Israel from Ukraine has increased by 2.5 times

  • Over 200,000 residents of EU moved to UK in 2013

  • More and more illegal immigrants headed to Europe

  • Among Britons, growth in racist and Islamophobic sentiment

  • Latvian Diet wants to simplify the language requirements for foreign professors

  • Syria introduces compulsory study of the Russian language in all schools

  • May 31: World No Tobacco Day

  • In Estonia, 36% of men and 18% of women smoke

  • Latvia intensifies fight against smokers

  • Brazil to tighten restrictions on smoking

  • European report names the most drug-addicted capital of Europe

  • In May nearly 800 people were killed in Iraq

  • The number of dengue fever cases in Singapore has exceeded 6.6 thousand

  • The Ebola situation in Africa is not under control

  • The death toll from cholera in Southern Sudan has reached 22 people

  • The UAE has eliminated all cases of coronavirus

  • In Sweden, new method for early diagnosis of skin cancer

  • Almost a third of people worldwide suffer from obesity

  • Around one fourth of the UK’s adult population is obese

  • The oldest resident of the USA celebrates 115th birthday

  • Estonia postpones until autumn enactment of cohabitation law allowing homosexual relationships

  • Gay marriages of Britons abroad will be registered in their Consulates

 

The newspapers write about

  • “Meditsinskaya Gazeta” on life expectancy in Russia

  • “Rossiyskaya Gazeta” on fertility in Russia

  • “Moldnews.info” on the Communists’ proposals to stimulate fertility in Moldova

  • “Slon.ru” on the geography of cancer mortality in Russia

  • “Kommersant” and “Slon.ru” on the benefits of the anti-smoking law

  • “Deutsche Welle” on the consequences of the smoking ban in Germany

  • “Kommersant’ on the drug situation in Europe

  • “Fp.com.ua” on overpopulation

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

  • “Moldavskie Vedomosti” and “AVA.MD” on the census and politics in Moldova

  • “Novye Izvestiya” on the popularity of countries for foreign workers

  • “Opec.ru” and “Vedomosti” on expats in Russia

  • “Kommersant” on Russian language testing for migrants

  • “Meditsinskaya gazeta” on a migrant health passport

  • “Liter.kz” on migration and the Customs Union

  • “Vecherniy Bishkek” on the problems of labor migrants in Russia

  • “Kommersant” and “The New Republic” on refugees in Ukraine and from Ukraine

  • “Ekho” on a draft law on citizenship of Azerbaijan

  • “Vedomosti” on serfdom in Belarus

  • “The Wall Street Journal” on internal migration in Germany

  • “Slon.ru” on mobility in the world in the future

  • “Kommersant” on the emigration sentiments of Russians

  • “Slon.ru” on the threat of Chinese expansion in Russia’s Far East

  • “Izvestiya” on national-cultural autonomies

  • “Milliyet” on Gagauzians

  • “Yeni Safak” on Meskhetian Turks

  • “Nezavisimaya Gazeta” on exporting educational services

  • “Ogonyok” and “Vedomosti” on the Russian middle class

  • “Vedomosti” on proposals for increasing labor productivity in industry

  • “Rossiyskaya Gazeta” on youth unemployment

  • “BBCRussian.com” on the history of the death penalty

  • “Der Tagesspiegel” on women and Sharia

  • “Dengi” on the point of dachas

  • “Dengi” on aging, robotics and migration

Read books and newspapers

  • World Health Statistics 2014

  • World Fertility report 2012

  • Global status report on alcohol and health 2014

  • Trends in maternal mortality: 1990 to 2013

  • Demographic ideas and concepts

  • Through the pages of the journals “Problemy sotsialnoy gigieny, zdravookhraneniya i istorii meditsiny” (“Problems of Social Hygiene, Health and Medical History”) and “Akusherstvo i ginekologiya” (“Obstetrics and Gynecology”)

  • Contents of the journal “Demographic Research”

Profession: researcher

  • Anniversary of Zhanna Antonovna Zayonchkovskaya

  • Z.A. Zayonchkovskaya.  My path to science.

  • Anniversary greetings

 

New in the Reading Room

  • Z.A. Zayonchkovskaya.  New settlers in the cities

Student page

  • On the Master’s degree in Demography


 


 

 

 

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