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Current topic: Moscow and Muscovites

• In all categories of respondents a good mood prevails

• Social status, income and property

• Residents and guests of the neighborhood

• Are there many long-time residents, and who lives in the neighboring district?

• Material and spiritual consumption

• The district through the eyes of residents and guests

• Is it far to the center?

• Conclusions

• Links to related topics

• Topics of previous issues

Russian demographic barometer

Demographic results of the first half of 2014 (Part II)

• In the first half of 2014 the number of deaths and the total mortality rate continued to decline

• In January-July 2014 mortality from diseases of the circulatory system continued to decline, but from respiratory and digestive diseases increased

• Mortality from external causes in January-July 2014 remained at the same level as the year before

• Among those who died in 2013 of certain infectious and parasitic diseases 49% were under the age of 40; among those dying from external causes, 48%

• Infant mortality in the first half of 2014 came to 7.5 ‰, a decrease of 9.6% compared to the same period in 2013

Through the eyes of the analysts

• Small towns of Russia: similar historical destinies and different paths of development

• From inhabitants to citizens: residents of informal settlements in the urban space of Bishkek

• Chinese food service in Irkutsk: its presence in the city’s public space

• Recreation practices and educational aspirations: the relationship  to individual’s

• migration history and family resources

Take care of women!

• 85 million accidental pregnancies

• Planning pregnancies in Russia

In the vastness of Russia

• Russians don’t want to get beyond the “consumption of the poor” mentality

• Ulyukaev proposes to leave the pension system alone

• Russian Pension Fund waiting for a decision to phase out payments to working pensioners

• Average retirement pension in 2015 will be 12.4 thousand rubles

• Putin gives order to develop strategy to support the elderly in Russia

• Financing social policy remains a priority of the Russian Federation

• Are rising food prices linked to the global trend?

• Early marriage eradicated in Chechnya, say clergy

• Russian government approves bill to increase labor mobility

• State Duma adopts amendments to the regulation of labor relations in Crimea

• Around 15 thousand residents of Ukraine have applied for Russian citizenship in Crimea

• In Crimea, issuance of passports for traveling abroad may be restricted

• FMS advocates introduction of a patent for migrants working for legal entities

• FMS will be able to prohibit certain private employers from hiring foreigners

• Moscow employers not allowed to employ more than 1.5 million migrants

• In Moscow, the migration situation has quieted down

• FMS puts number of illegal migrants in Russia at 4.3 million

• More than three million migrants will be tested in Russia in 2015

• The exam level for migrants should depend on their purpose in coming

• More than 110 thousand Ukrainians have received temporary asylum or refugee status in Russia

• Medvedev signs decree regulating living arrangements for Ukrainian immigrants in Russia

• Over two-week period the number of refugees in the Rostov region fell by more than 5,000 people

• Russian universities introducing ban on religious clothing of students

• Russian health care system enters Bloomberg rating for first time and ranks last

• Over 60% of Russians believe that health care could be better

• Will Russians not suffer from restrictions on state procurement of foreign drugs?

• Russian vaccine against Ebola undergoing systematic testing

• Medical foods asked to be excluded from sanctions list

• Passports may include consent to organ donation

Eurasian panorama

• The number of victims of the conflict in Ukraine has exceeded 3.5 thousand people

• In Armenia more children being born

• The number of divorces in Kazakhstan has increased by 2%

• Per capita income in Belarus is $420 a month

• Government of Belarus approves new minimum subsistence level  

• In 2015 the average pension in Kirgizia could grow to $86

• Nazarbayev denounces Kazakhs who leave their parents in nursing homes

• In Kazakhstan children will be allowed to enter first grade starting strictly from age 6

• In Ukraine, about 1 million officials fall under the law on lustration

• Internal migration in Kazakhstan has increased by 30%

• Every year about 35 thousand graduates of Kazakh schools become unemployed

• Ukraine counting on visa-free regime with the EU by the spring of 2015

• Moldovan President urges minorities to show loyalty to “European integration”

• Israel lifts visa requirement for citizens of Moldova

• Investors ask to simplify the issuance of work permits for foreigners in Kirgizia

• Over six months Belarusians received more than $0.5 billion in foreign remittances

• The number of internally displaced persons from the east of Ukraine has reached 240 thousand

• Could 5 million refugees from Ukraine enter Russia?

• As a result of truce in Donetsk refugees have begun returning from Russia

• Around 40 thousand residents have returned to Donbass from the rest of Ukraine

• Over 19 thousand citizens of Moldova have been expelled from Russia since the beginning of the year

• Kazakhstan is ranked 10^th in the world in the number of suicides

• In Kazakhstan, a proposal to ban methadone

World news

• Denmark drops out of first place in the ranking of world’s happiest countries

• Is the UN’s concept of “sustainable development” liquidating the family?

• By the end of 2015 the number of hungry people in the world could be cut in half

• France allows the seizure of passports of potential terrorists

• In recent years hundreds of foreigners have lost their residence permits in Latvia

• Latvia’s Saeima again refuses to impose ban on residence permits for Russians

• Obama postpones immigration reform

• Turkey has started to accept refugees from the Islamic State war zone

• 130 thousand Syrians Kurds have fled to Turkey due to attack of the Islamists

• More than 70 thousand Kurds crossed Turkish border in a single day

• Russian schools in Latvia will be asked to teach 80% of subjects in Latvian

• Turkey allows the wearing of the Muslim headscarf in secondary schools

• In Latvia, campaign launched against suicide

• WHO predicts doubling of the number of patients with dementia in the world every 20 years

• The number of victims of the Ebola virus outbreak has exceeded 2.6 thousand people

• The number of people infected with the Ebola virus could reach 550 thousand

• WHO opposes isolation of countries where outbreaks of Ebola virus are reported

• Fighting the Ebola virus will require $1 billion

• The number of dengue fever cases in Japan has reached 141 people

• Tens of thousands of Spaniards took to the streets to demand abortion ban

• In Estonia, parental consent will no longer be required for underage daughter’s abortion

• Children who died in Syria were given lethal dose of anesthesia instead of measles vaccine

• French courts recognizes maternal rights of lesbian couples

The newspapers write about….

• “Gazeta.ru” on Muscovites and migrants

• “Gazeta.ru” on world population forecasts

• “Radio Bulgaria” on Bulgaria’s demographic problems

• “Vedomosti” on the dangers of fast-tracking Russian citizenship

• “Novye Izvestiya” on problems of migration legislation

• “Nezavisimaya Gazeta” on a lackluster turnout for Russian exam for migrants

• “Rossiyskaya Gazeta” on sick-leave for migrants

• “Rossiyskaya Gazeta” on migration from Ukraine as seen through the eyes of Romodanovskiy

• “Nezavisimaya Gazeta” on the problems of refugees from Ukraine

• “Novye Izvestiya” on repatriation to Israel

• “Respublica” on Chinese migration in Central Asia

• “Rossiyskaya Gazeta” on the worker resettlement program

• “Kommersant” on the maternity capital and mortgages

• “Novye Izvestiya” on banning the adoption of children by people infected with HIV

• “Kommersant” on the rating of healthcare systems

• “Novye Izvestiya” on problems of optimizing Russian health care

• “Kazakhstanskaya Pravda” on lowering mortality from cardiovascular disease in Kazakhstan

• “New Yorker” on the Ebola virus epidemic

• “Kommersant” on cost optimization in the social sphere

• “Nezavisimaya Gazeta” on the budget imbalance and retirement age

• “Novye Izvestiya” on lowering the retirement age for those with children

• “Vedomosti” on pensions and their fixed part

• “Nezavisimaya Gazeta” on the lack of skilled workers

• “Rossiyskaya Gazeta” on unemployment in Russia

• “SwissInfo” on the advantages of part-time employment

• “Vedomosti” on youth unemployment

• “Kommersant” on the lack of young people on Russia’s labor market

• “Kommersant” on reducing poverty in the USA

• “Belorusskie Novosti” on the subsistence minimum in Belarus

• “Novye Izvestiya” on the attitude to homeless persons

• “Nezavisimaya Gazeta” on homeless adult orphans

• “Kommersant” on the history of the fight against illegal alcohol

• “Kommersant-Dengi” on the “unaccounted for Russia”  

• “Vedomosti” on the midlife crisis getting younger

• “Kommersant” on consent in passports for posthumous organ donation

• “Lidovky” on the new Trotskyism-Leninism and the traditional family

• “Kommersant” on the origin of Europeans

Read books and magazines

• Demographic problems of Russia: a view from the past to the future

• The world demographic situation, 2014

• Preventing suicide: a global imperative

• The health of the republic of Belarus, 2009-2013

• The population of Ukraine.  Imperatives of demographic aging.  

• Through the pages of the magazines “Sotsialnye aspekty zdorovya naselenyia” (“Social aspects of public health”) and “Akusherstvo i Ginekologiya” (“Obstetrics and Gynecology”)

• Contents of the journal “Demographic Research”

Profession: researcher

• 140 years since the birth of Adolph Landry

• Adolph Landry.  The demographic revolution