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Current topic:
Assisted Reproductive Technology: modernity helping tradition

• Slowly but surely: the development of reproductive technologies in different countries and regions as of 2014

• 5 parents are not a luxury

• Value, economic and demographic aspects of ART

• Who resorts to ART and why: the experience of one of the clinics

• Factors of successful treatment

• Modernizing views about family and reproduction

• ART and the future

• Addenda

• Links to related topics

• Topics of previous issues

Eurasian demographic barometer

CIS youth: a few touches to the demographic profile

• At the beginning of 2013, the population of the Commonwealth aged 15-29 came to 66 million people, or 23.4% of the total population

• Mortality at ages 15-29 is going down but remains high, especially among young men in Russia

• 15-year-old girls in the CIS will live an average of 60 years more and young men 54 years more, while 30-year-old women will live another 45 years and men another 40

• The percentage of women aged 25-29 who have never been married ranges from 15% in Tajikistan to 30% in Armenia

• Fertility trends go in different directions

Through the eyes of the analysts

• “Half full blood relatives”? The problematization of kinship and family in newspaper articles about ART

• The advice of gynecologists about contraception and pregnancy planning in the context of contemporary biopolitics in Russia

• Parental divorce: causes and impact on the child and on the relationship between parents and children.  A theoretical overview.

• A special survey of the population’s reproductive health: analysis and results

Take care of women!

• The attitude of governments to problems of reproductive health

In the vastness of Russia

• Will mandatory participation in the census increase its effectiveness?

• Stroke mortality in Russia has decreased by 40 percent in 5 years

• Ministry of Health announces main causes of death in Russia

• Doctors and nurses live to the age of 50 less often than other Russians

• Muscovites drink as much as, but live longer than other Russians

• Average salary of a teacher in Russia has reached almost 34 thousand rubles

• Government’s Social Bloc is against giving maternity capital only to those in need

• State Duma passes bill to freeze pension savings in 2015

• Finance Ministry intends to continue the discussion on basic payments for working pensioners

• Russian authorities will propose to extend the program of co-financing of pensions

• More than 1.2 trillion rubles to be allocated for social support in 2015

• The volume of alimony debt in Russia is 100 million rubles

• 400 thousand places in kindergartens to be created in 2015

• The number of orphans in Russia has declined over two years by 26 thousand

• Russia preparing to ratify the Convention on the Exercise of Children’s Rights

• In Russia, structural changes in the health system, but not a reduction of doctors

• Unemployment in Russia is “unprecedentedly low”

• 553 thousand Russians have notified the FMS of a foreign citizenship or permanent residence

• State Duma makes procedure easier for notification of a second citizenship

• Passports have begun being issued in Crimea

• The FMS should not be given investigatory authority

• State Duma adopts bill meant to replace external labor migration with internal

• State Duma passes in first reading amendments concerning social insurance for foreign workers

• State Duma bans gross violators of immigration law entry to Russia for 10 years

• Government simplifies rules for Ukrainian citizens to participate in the compatriot resettlement program

• Jobs found in Russia for over 109 thousand people forced to leave Ukraine

• Almost 200 thousand Ukrainians have already received asylum in Russia

• HRC proposes to drop registration requirement for Ukrainians receiving Russian citizenship

• About 100 thousand children have arrived in Russia from southeast Ukraine

• Children of Ukrainian refugees will be able to enter Moscow schools on the same conditions as Russian citizens

• WHO explains what is hindering the fight against smoking in Russia

• Russia needs to reduce its number of abortions

• Will health care financing in 2015 not go down?

• Pechatnikov comments on plans to liquidate Moscow hospitals

• Saint Petersburg: the most mentally healthy city in Russia

• Symptoms of chronic respiratory disease found in half of all Russians

• Doctors to be forbidden to disclose information about the deceased to strangers

• In Russia, the number of convictions is going down, but the number of sentences for serious offenses is growing

Eurasian panorama

• The number of victims of the conflict in eastern Ukraine has exceeded 3.7 thousand

• The official population of Azerbaijan has exceeded 9.55 million people

• 23% of the population of Belarus are young people aged 14 to 31

• Will power outages in Ukraine lead to increased fertility?

• Soros calls on IMF to lend Ukraine $20 billion

• European Parliament extends trade preferences to Ukraine until the end of 2015

• Azerbaijan will receive $300 million from the World Bank

• In 2015 the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development will provide Armenia 100 million euros in aid

• The average old-age pension in Moldova covers only 70% of the minimum subsistence income

• Kirgiz government planning to invest up to 20% of funds accumulated in Pension Fund

• Will Transnistrian pensioners with Russian citizenship receive Russian pensions?

• Moldova in 4^th place among countries most dependent on remittances

• Will Tajikistan feed a Russia that has renounced Western foods?

• Uzbekistan adopts job creation program for 2015

• Belarus Ministry of Internal Affairs wants to return administrative responsibility for “parasitism”

• Kazakhstan Parliament ratifies agreement with Russia on good-neighborliness and alliance

• Verkhovna Rada passes bill to ensure the rights of internally displaced persons

• Activities of Tajik migrants benefit both Tajikistan and Russia

• Kirgiz migrants will not be able to enter Russia even if they have been taken off the FMS blacklist

• Over a thousand Ukrainians fall into slavery each year

• The number of HIV-infected Uzbek labor migrants has gone up 1.5 times

• In Ukraine a woman dies from breast cancer every hour

• Kirgizia will not check pilgrims returning from Mecca for Ebola virus

World news

• Mortality goes down in Latvia

• 13% of Latvia’s population are non-citizens

• Britain must pay 2.1 billion euros to EU budget

• The rising prosperity of Americans: a dangerous sign?

• Latvia to introduce official minimum income

• Raising the minimum wage in Lithuania may cause dismissals

• Latvia promises 4.5 percent wage increase in the coming year

• Spain and Russia preparing to ratify bilateral agreement on international adoption of children

• Expats most satisfied with life in Switzerland

• Eurostat has calculated who goes to the EU and for what

• In 2013, EU residence permits were given to 73 thousand Russians, 77 thousand Belarusians and 237 thousand Ukrainians

• UK to limit influx of migrants

• Obama expresses appreciation for Turkey’s acceptance of a million Syrian refugees

• Germany to provide 20 million euros to aid Iraqi refugees

• Canada to contribute $8 million to UNICEF to assist child refugees from Syria and Iraq

• In 2013, 9 million people in the world came down with tuberculosis

• The number of people with the Ebola virus is approaching 10 thousand

• Mortality from the Ebola virus has reached 70%

• In Mali, first confirmed case of Ebola virus

• Losses from the Ebola virus could exceed $32 billion by the end of the year

• Might type 1 diabetes become curable?

• European Union adopts new climate agreement

• Estonian Parliament passes “Law on Cohabitation”

• Does Latvia need to pass a “Law on Cohabitation”?

• Latvian President not planning to legalize gay marriage

 

The Newspapers Write About…

• “Harvard Business Review – Rossiya” on world population growth

• “Kommersant-Vlast” on the effectiveness of economic incentives for demographic growth

• “Nezavisimaya gazeta” and “Kommersant” on the maternity capital

• “Meditsinskaya gazeta” on the perinatologist forum

• “Vecherniy Bishkek” on infant mortality in Kirgizia

• “Gazeta.ru” on mortality in traffic accidents

• “Mednovosti.Ru”, “Kommersant” and “Novaya Gazeta” on closing hospitals in Moscow

• “The Village” and “Fakty” on the Ebola virus

• “Popular Science” on those who have recovered from the Ebola virus

• “Novye izvestiya” on “our” HIV

• “Daily Mail” on the impact of bad habits on longevity

• “Finance.ua” on a future easing of population policy in China

• “Novaya gazeta” on new views of the Catholic Church on family and marriage issues

• “Gazeta.ru” on migration and the labor market

• “Ekspert-Kazakhstan” and “Vremya” on the consequences of Kazakhstan’s accession to the EAEC 

• “Financial Times” on the reduction of migrant remittances from Russia to Tajikistan

• “Kommersant” on bill “On immigration control”

• “Slon.ru” on a special migration regime in the Far East

• “Polit.ru” on new fines for using illegal migrants

• “Polit.ru” on the migration discussion  in Europe

• “Sverigesradio” on xenophobic acts against religious communities in Sweden

• “Le Temps” on institutional racism

• “Nezavisimaya gazeta” and “Novye izvestiya” on the problems of Ukrainian refugees in Russia

• “Den” on the problem of refugees in Ukraine

• “Ekho” on emigration from Armenia

• “Belorusy i rynok” on the growth of the population in Minsk

• “Rossiyskaya gazeta” on 22.5 million Russian ‘shadow workers’

• “Kommersant” on the possible legalization of Russian self-employed workers

• “Belorusskaya Niva” on spongers

• “Novye Izvestiya” on the coming reduction in real salaries in Russia

• “Novye Izvestiya” on inequality in the world and in Russia

• “Zhenmin zhibao” on the middle class

• “Ekspert” on the pension system

• “Bolshoi gorod” on economics, inequality and child-rearing

• “Slon.ru” on possible consequences of Lake Sarez bursting

• “Novye izvestiya” on the census for the Deafblind

• “Gazeta.ru” on organ donation

• “Nautilus” on superintelligent people

Read books and magazines

• Women of the world in 2010.  Trends and Statistics

• Levels and trends in child mortality 2014

• Belarus: health system review. Health Systems in Transition.

• The EU in the world 2014. A statistical portrait

• Health care system in the Republic of Moldova

• Through the pages of the journals “Migratsia XXI vek” (“Migration in the 21^st century”) and “Vestnik MGU. Seriya 18.  Sotsiologiya i Politologiya” (“The MSU Bulletin. Series 18.  Sociology and Political Science”)

• Contents of the journal « Hommes et migrations »

Profession: researcher

• The policy of fertility incentives: the desirable and the possible.  Meeting of the Demographic section of the Central House of Scientists of the Russian Academy of Sciences

• Yevgeny Mikhailovich Andreev turns 70

• Happy anniversary to Viktoria Ivanovna Sakevich

 

New in the reading room

• Andreev E.M.  On the connection between the real and the hypothetical cohorts