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Current topic: Orphanhood in Russia

• Introduction

• The legislative framework of orphanhood

• Without parental care…

• Family-based arrangements

• The dynamics of orphanhood since 2000

• Depriving and restoring of parental rights

• From the orphanage to the family

• The problem of repeated orphanhood

• Cash payments and services for orphans and foster parents

• Conclusion

• Links to related topics

• Topics of previous issues

Russian demographic barometer

Demographic results for the first half of 2014 (Part I)

• Russia's population on July 1, 2014 totalled 146.1 million people, an increase from the beginning of the year of 88,000 people, or 0.06%

• In January-June 2014 the natural decline decreased by 27.2 thousand people, or 2.1 times compared with the same period in 2013; population growth continues to be  provided by migration

• In the first half of the year the number of births continued to rise, increasing by 1.7% compared to the same period in 2013

• Over 6 months in 2014 the number of registered marriages and divorces increased compared with the same period in 2013

Through the eyes of the analysts

• The child well-being index

• Overview of Russian and foreign scientific research on the topic of overcoming the social exclusion of orphans and children left without parental care

• Approaches to social policy in the field of foreign adoptions

• Overview of family-based care for orphans in the northern, continental and southern countries of Europe

• Taking care of orphans: a historical overview

Q&A

• The demand for additional education

• Nationalism, xenophobia and migration

• On alcohol consumption and banning plastic bottles

• On raising the price of vodka

In the vastness of Russia

• Fertility in Russia increased by 1.7% in January-July 2014

• Russian schools and universities have opened their doors to 20 million students

• Government approves concept of state family policy in Russia until 2025

• The fate of funded pensions in Russia will depend on the financial market

• State Duma Labor Committee is ready to support the abolition of the funded pension

• Duma Deputies propose to extend duration of benefits for child care

• Russians are dissatisfied with the electronic queue system for enrolling in kindergartens

• State Duma Science Committee calls for age restriction on directors of research institutes

• Unemployment rate in Russia is lower than the average among countries participating in the G20

• Unemployment rate for the month decreased by 2.3% in 80 regions

• Cabinet to discuss possibility of increasing labor mobility

• Communists want Russia to give ethnic Russians preference in obtaining Russian citizenship

• Pamphilova chides FMS for insufficient work issuing passports in Crimea

• About 950 thousand foreigners denied entry to Russia

• Experts oppose granting Russia’s FMS “police functions”

• Moscow authorities intend to set their own value on a patent for migrants

• Migrant workers will be able to take Russian exam long distance

• Refugees from Ukraine will be given jobs outside labor quotas for 2014

• Ministry of Education clarifies rules for admitting Ukrainian refugees educational establishments

• HRC adopts recommendations on improving the situation of refugees from Ukraine

• More than 58 thousand Ukrainian refugees in temporary accommodation facilities

• Over last 20 years Russia has lost 1 million citizens from suicide

• Russia needs national suicide prevention program

• Drug testing procedure for students is waiting for approval

• There will be no embargo on drug imports

Eurasian panorama

• At least 3 thousand people have been killed in eastern Ukraine since the start of the conflict

• Over 1 million people have left their homes as a result of crisis in Ukraine

• Belarusian households have grown richer by over a quarter

• Vulnerable groups in Kirgizia are the disabled, the elderly and children

• In Armenia, university students with children will study for free

• Moldovan youth with degrees from abroad will receive support for repatriation

• Ukraine wants to start issuing biometric passports by 2015

• Transnistria requests return to simplified procedure for obtaining Russian citizenship for its residents

• Citizens of South Ossetia who also have Russian citizenship can take their time reporting second citizenship

• Russian Embassy and representatives of the Federal Migration Service in Armenia can not accept notification of dual citizenship

• The number of people returning to Ukraine has recently increased

• Displaced people have begun leaving the Rostov region and returning to Ukraine

• 2.5 thousand refugees returning daily to Luhansk region

• In Georgia 258,038 people have refugee status

• Remittances to Moldova from abroad hit record high

• Remittances from Kirgiz labor migrants are down by 1.4% since beginning of the year

• Parliament of Georgia considering state language law

• In Kirgizia, during first seven months of 2014 there were 3850 traffic accidents, in which 521 people died

• Mortality in Kazakhstan prisons has increased by a half in last 10 years

• The frequency of strokes in Ukraine is 13 times higher than in Europe

• WHO fears polio outbreak in Ukraine

• Nazarbayev orders creation of obligatory medical insurance fund

• In Georgia, new medical care rules for children, seniors and people with disabilities

World news

• Almost 30% of Estonia’s able-bodied population has no special or secondary education

• The total number of students in Lithuania is decreasing

• The average gross salary in Estonia has exceeded 1000 euros for the first time

• In Estonia, voting age down to 16

• The main reason for divorce is unreadiness for the family duties and responsibilities of marriage

• In Estonia, the life and behavior of men to be studied for the first time

• The French expect that sanctions will increase unemployment in Europe by 1 million people

• In the next few years Latvia will face a shortage of qualified specialists

• Due to mass emigration the number of workers in Estonia has decreased to 1 million people

• Estonia discusses various ways to confront the mass emigration of specialists

• In Iraq, as many as 700 children killed or maimed since the start of year

• USA in first place among developed countries in the number of violent deaths among children  

• The number of victims of the Ebola virus outbreak in West Africa has grown to 2,296 people

• In order to fight the Ebola virus, Sierra Leoneans will be forbidden to leave their homes

• Ebola virus epidemic reveals weakness of health care system in the affected countries

• “Doctors Without Borders” declares the battle against Ebola lost

• Number of dengue fever cases in Japan has reached 96 people

• Over the past 10 years, the number of cancer patients in Latvia has increased by 40%

• Infant mortality from cancer has decreased by 74% over past 10 years

• Switzerland may forbid early detection of future child’s sex

• Ozone layer could fully recover by mid-century

• In 2013, the increase in the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere was the highest in 30 years

• British doctors call for creation of emergency committee to combat childhood obesity

• Fourth blood group linked to risk of developing dementia

• Greece criminalizes denial of Armenian genocide

The newspapers write about…

• “Novye Izvestiya” on the closing of orphanages as a problem

• “Vedomosti” and “Expert” on the funded pension system

• “Novye Izvestiya” on the growth of poverty

• “The Financial Times” on the global jobs crisis

• “BBC” on working hard in Europe

• “Ogonyok” on non-payment of salaries and strikes

• “Vedomosti” on shadow employment

• “Forbes” and “The New York Review of Books” on the dispute between Gessen and Adomanis regarding the demographic situation in Russia

• “Golos Armenii” and “Ekho” on the demographic situation in Armenia

• “Opec.ru” on salary and marital status

• “Opec.ru” on childlessness

• “Meditsinskaya Gazeta” on the problems of obstetrics

• “Vedomosti” on life expectancy

• “Novye Izvestiya” on the economic costs of the Ebola epidemic

• “Novye Izvestiya” on the demographic cost of corruption

• “Slon.ru” and “Vedomosti” on suicide and child suicides

• “Kommersant” on drinking and driving in the UK

• “Kommersant” on global drug policy

• “Kommersant-Dengi” on a possible drug embargo

• “Kommersant”, “Novye izvestiya” and “Slon.ru” on refugees from Ukraine

• “Novye izvestiya” on a new incident of deprivation of Russian citizenship

• “Delfi.ee” on a letter from Estonian aliens to Obama

• “Paruskg.info” on Russians leaving Kirgizia

• “Lenta.ru” on a possible strengthening of Slavs in the Baltic States

• “Kommersant” on the attitude of Germans towards immigrants and their integration

• “The Guardian” on multiculturalism, fundamentalism ad emancipation

• “Vedomosti” on the education of migrant children in Moscow

• “Nezavisimaya gazeta” and “Opec.ru” on the migration of university graduates

• “Kommersant-Dengi” on student migration

• “Slon.ru” on a few facts and guesstimates related to demography  

• “Courier.co.il” on the origin of Ashkenazis

• “Kommersant-Dengi” on euthanasia in Switzerland

• “Vedomosti” on fines for dodging the census

• “Atlantico” on the link between when a child is born and how well he does in school

• “BBC” on humanity’s future in space

Read books and magazines

• A demographic analysis of mortality and life expectancy of the elderly population in St. Petersburg

• Key data on early childhood and care in Europe. 2014 Edition

• Malignant neoplasms in Russia in 2012 (morbidity and mortality)

• Regional Migration Report: South Caucasus

• Demographic Yearbook of the Republic of Belarus

• Through the pages of the magazines “Sotsiologicheskie Issledovaniya” (“Sociological Research”) and “Problemy prognozirovaniya” (“Problems of Forecasting”)

• Contents of the journal “Population and Development Review”

Profession: researcher

• The 85th anniversary of the birth of Alexander Akhiezer Samoilovich

• S.Y. Matveeva. A divided society: the path and destiny of Russia in the sociocultural theory of Alexander Akhiezer

• E.S. Kulpin-Gubaidullin. Remembering A.S. Akhiezer. About the book "In Search of a theory of Russian civilization"

Student page

• Young demographers of HSE continue to share their summer experiences

• British Conference on Population Studies

• International Summer School in Spain

Congratulations

• Congratulations to Nastya Pyankova on the birth of her daughter