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Current topic: Russian population losses in World War I

• War and “the peace that wasn’t”

• The complexities of seeking the truth

• Russia’s population by the end of the war was 110 million instead of the expected 195

• Irrecoverable losses

• Russian war losses surpassed those of other powers

• Instead of a conclusion

• Links to related topics

• Topics of previous issues

World demographic barometer

Mortality from homicide in the world in 2012

• Every year over 1.3 million people die due to violence, or 2.5% of all deaths

• Information about murders is incomplete; 60% of all countries do not have reliable data records of deaths by cause of death

• WHO estimates that in 2012 475 thousand people became the victims of murder; compared with the year 2000, deaths from homicides decreased by 16%

• 48% of homicides are committed with firearms, but this varies considerably according to region and country

• Mortality from homicide varies considerably across countries within regions

Through the eyes of the analysts

• Socio-demographic results of the First World War in Russia in Russian scientific literature at the turn of the 1920s

• The impact of the First Word War on demographic processes in Russia

• On the question of the natural movement of the population in Russia and in the USSR in 1915-1923

• The number of members and casualties in the Russian armed forces in World War I

• Lost generations: The demographic impact of the Great War

Interactive poll

• Should abortion be criminalized?

Take care of women!

• Abortions and contraception in Russia: are there regional differences?

In the vastness of Russia

• Fertility in the Russian Federation in 2014 is expected to reach 1.9 million persons

• Mortality in Russia decreased by 0.8%

• The average old-age pension in 2015 will rise to 12.5 thousand rubles

• Pensions and payouts to state employees will be indexed

• Most Russian workers support the introduction of corporate pensions

• Russian authorities will try to keep social commitments

• The social standard for pensioners in Moscow will remain at 12 thousand rubles

• Cabinet intends to prolong the maternity capital

• Government to discuss subsidies for needy families

• The number of orphans without foster homes has decreased to 90 thousand

• Finns won’t be able to adopt Russian children

• Should working women in Russia be paid 10% more than men?

• Russian Ministry of Labor is not yet registering a growth in unemployment

• Federation Council approves introduction of subsidies for employers attracting workers from the regions

• Pamfilova does not rule out Russia’s having to reconsider its immigration policy

• The number of foreigners in Moscow receiving Russian citizenship increased by 8%

• Cabinet to discuss the 90-day stay of citizens of Belarus in Russia

• The numbers of legal and illegal migrant workers in Russia are nearly equal

• More than 700 thousand patents issued this year to foreigners in Moscow

• Flagrant violators of immigration legislation banned from entering Russia for 10 years

• Automatic ban on entering Russia for violations concerns 1.2 million foreigners

• Investigation Committee proposes to introduce mandatory fingerprinting and genomic registration for migrants

• 225 thousand citizens of Ukraine have received temporary asylum in Russia

• Regions given subsidies to help with voluntary resettlement of refugees from Ukraine

• The head of the Federal Drug Control Service proposes to simplify the sale of narcotic medicines

• Ministry of Health announces possibility to prevent 40% of neonatal deaths

• Head of Bashkortostan has promised to fire chief physicians in the event of an increase in mortality

• Putin orders that transition to insurance principles of Mandatory Medical Insurance be completed by January 1, 2016

• Treatment protocols to be introduced into Moscow health care system

• New equipment allows manyfold reduction of length of stay in Moscow clinics

Eurasian panorama

• The shrinking and aging of Ukraine’s population is intensifying each year

• Over 4 thousand victims of conflict in Ukraine

• In 2014 Tajikistan’s population rose by nearly 148 thousand people

• Belarus to receive $1.14 million for population project

• Belarusians to be given $10 thousand for a third child

• GDP of Uzbekistan may drop by a third due to falling incomes of migrants in Russia

• Devaluation of ruble is beginning to impact the economy of Kirgizia

• Belarus Council of Ministers has increased the minimum wage

• In Ukraine, salary delays beginning

• Uzbekistan pension is 41% higher than average salary

• Around 50 thousand Kazakhs have left the countryside since 2014

• Ukraine’s lustration law has already led to firing of over 350 officials

• Venice Commission recommends that Kiev amend law on lustration

• UN plans to provide support for 250 thousand persons in Ukraine with Russia’s help

• Unemployment in Kazakhstan rose to 5.1% in November

• Around 400 thousand jobs to be created for those returning to Uzbekistan

• 20 thousand inhabitants of Uzbekistan want to change their citizenship to Russian

• In 2014, 1,617 people sought asylum in Georgia

• Ukrainians fleeing the crisis and the war to work in the EU and Russia

• Volume of remittances to Belarus grew throughout 2014

• Income of migrants from Kirgizia to Russia decreased by 30-40%

• 404 migrants from Kirgizia killed abroad over past two years

• Belarus wants to prolong the lives of the terminally ill so as not to spoil the mortality statistics for 2014

World news

• About 230 million children in the world live in countries affected by armed conflict

• The exact number of Lithuanians in the world has been calculated

• Estonia’s ruling party promises to give 300-euro allowance for a third child

• In Montenegro 8.6% of citizens live below the poverty line

• One in five people in Bulgaria is below the poverty line

• In Estonia, only a fourth of workers counting on a raise

• Russian pensioners in Latvia worried about their income

• Lithuanians hoping for a comfortable old age pension

• UNICEF has requested more than $900 million to assist children in Syria

• One in thirty children in the U.S. is homeless

• In Latvia, nearly a hundred schools have been closed over past 5 years

• Greece, Italy, Poland and France to receive €35,5 million to fight unemployment

• More and more Italians leaving the country

• In 2014 22 thousand Latvians left their country

• 40% of Latvians ready to emigrate

• 23 Ukraine citizens have requested asylum in Slovakia

• Estonia refuses to grant asylum to all refugees from Ukraine

• EU to allocate an additional €70  million to Turkey to assist refugees

• Estonia needs to integrate its “new immigrants” better

• 200 thousand people have already become victims of conflict in Syria

• The number of Ebola victims has reached 6,841 persons

• In West Africa there are still about a hundred breeding grounds for the spread of the Ebola virus

• EU has allocated €61 million to West Africa to combat the consequences of Ebola

• Mali will be free of Ebola by January

• Mortality from malaria in the world has gone down by 45% since the year 2000

• In the Dominican Republic more than 60 people have died from dengue fever since the beginning of the year

• Nearly 800 children have died in the U.S. over the last six years due to parental negligence

• As of January 1, 2015 the smoking ban in South Korea will be extended to all eating and drinking establishments

• French Parliament to consider a new law on euthanasia methods

• Finnish Parliament votes in favor of resolution to allow same-sex unions

The newspapers write about…

• “Novye Izvestiya” on the demographic situation in Russia

• “Nezavisimaya Gazeta” on the reduction of mortality in Russia as a temporary success

• “Kommersant-Dengi” on increased mortality on payday

• “Kommersant” on the reduction of financing norms of Mandatory Health Insurance

• “Izvestiya” on regional models of health care organization

• “Courier.co.il” on a universal rise in life expectancy

• “Nezavisimaya gazeta” on violence in the world

• “Kommersant-Dengi” on the slaughter in Rwanda 20 years ago

• “Lenta.Ru” on the impact of war on the newborn

• “Lenta.ru” on child mortality in India

• “Slon.ru” on damage to the economy from supermicrobes

• “Lenta.ru” on microbes and human longevity

• “Izvestiya” on the right to abortion and the Constitutional Court

• “The New Republic” on maternity leave in the USA

• “Gazeta.ru” on the maternity capital for buying a car

• “Vecherniy Minsk” on the maternity capital in Belarus

• “Kommersant-Dengi” on poverty and social assistance

• “Pravda.com.ua” on the middle class in Ukraine

• “Paruskg.info” on a study of the labor market in Bishkek

• “Kommersant” on problems of the pension system

• “Ekspert” on pension systems

• “Kommersant” on differences between pension reform in Russia and in other countries

• “Izvestiya” on labor exchanges for pensioners

• “Ubr.ua” on a possible increase in the retirement age in Ukraine

• “Ogonyok” and “Novye Izvestiya” on Ukrainian refugees

• “Kommersant” on migrants and xenophobia

• “Kommersant” on special schools for children of migrants

• “Izvestiya” on a center for migrants in Domodedоvo

• “Novye Izvestiya” on deporting HIV-positive foreigners from Russia

• “Asia-Plus” on restrictions on participation in elections at home for Tajik migrants

• “Delo.kg” on Chinese in Kirgizia

• “Izvestiya” on internal migration in Russia

• “Slon.ru” on Russian cities

• “Bolshoy Gorod” on the exodus from the Russian provinces

• “Kommersant” on the first results of the census in Сrimea

• “Kommersant-Dengi” on the history of divorce and alimony

• “Lenta.ru” on the Bushmen as once the most numerous people

Read books and magazines

• Forecasting migration between the EU, V4 and Eastern Europe: the impact of visa abolition

• Migrants, migrantophobia and migration policy

• Social integration of migrants in the context of social security (the case of the Republic of Tatarstan)

• Key figures on Europe – 2014 edition

• Estonia.  Health Systems in Transition

• Through the pages of the journals “Sotsialnye aspekty zdorovya naseleniya” (“Social aspects of public health”) and “Vestnik RAMN” (“Bulletin of the Russian Academy of Medical Science”)

• Contents of the journal “Population & Sociétés”

Profession: researcher

• Presentation of the twentieth annual demographic report “The Population of Russia”

• Boris Alexandrovich Revich turns 70

New in the reading room

• The population of Russia 2012.  Twentieth annual demographic report

• Russia in the World War of 1914-1918 (in figures)