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Current topic: Marriage and divorce in Russia

• Is the number of registered marriages beginning to decline?

• The changing age pattern of marriage according to current records

• The changing age pattern of marriage according to census data

• The number of divorces is still large, but the number of children affected by their parents’ divorce is changing little

• Links to related topics

• Topics of previous issues

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  European demographic barometer

Marriage in the EU-28

• The number of marriages is decreasing, the number of divorces growing

• The mean age at first marriage is increasing in all EU-28 countries, but the differences between countries are great

• Marriage occurring less often and later

• The duration of marriage upon divorce varies considerably within the EU

• The proportion of unmarried people is increasing

Through the eyes of the analysts

• Changes in the composition and structure of households in Russia

• The start of an independent life by Russians: the intergenerational aspect

• Common-law marriage in Russia as a trial version of marriage

• To what extent are intentions to live together realized?

• The impact of new measures of Russian population policy on the probability of the birth of a second and subsequent children

• The influence of the experience of living in a single-parent family on the socio-demographic behavior of children

Interactive polling

• Should abortion be criminalized?  Polling results

Q&A

• The state’s role in implementing social protection

• Where one is born, one proves good for something

• The burden of responsibility

• The attitude to nonethnic Russians

In the vastness of Russia

• The growth of fertility for 11 months in 2014 surpassed that in 2013

• Cabinet not discussing raising retirement age in Russia

• Russia has exhausted the possibilities of material incentives for having children

• Cabinet may take additional anti-crisis measures to support the population

• Reduction in the budget of the Russian Federation by 10% won’t affect social sphere

• Russians’ insurance pensions will be indexed at 9.8% as of February 1

• Russian pensions beginning to be calculated according to new formula

• Payment of subsidies to the regions for a third and subsequent children has been approved

• No need to allow maternity capital to be used for the purchase of automobiles

• In 2015 the government will be ready to support the labor market

• According to the Minister of Labor there will be no radical outflow of migrant workers from Russia

• Head of the Federal Migration Service expresses doubt that migrant workers will leave Russia due to collapse of ruble

• Almost all inhabitants of Crimea have received passports

• Foreign travel passports will begin to include fingerprints

• FMS proposes to introduce plastic Russian passport without payment functions

• Production of electronic passports in Russia may start in a month

• Migration rules in Russia have changed as of January 1, 2015

• Migrants may be banned entry to Russia for 10 years

• FMS head does not rule out migration amnesty after the introduction of patents

• 40,000 Ukrainians took part in compatriot resettlement program

• About 400,000 refugees from Ukraine may stay in Russia

• Russian regions will receive more than 4.1 billion rubles for the needs of refugees from Ukraine

• Mortality from drug use in Russia has decreased over past 8 years

• Access to narcotic painkillers for cancer patients has been simplified

• Are about 30 million Russians really waiting for a drug addict rehabilitation system?

• Among Russians, diseases being detected at early stages 7.5 times earlier than before

• Constitutional Court decides not to consider proposal to ban abortion

• Mortality in Moscow detention centers down by 30% in 2014

Eurasian panorama

• The number of victims of the conflict in Ukraine has surpassed 4,808 people

• Moldova has lost 470,000 people over last 10 years

• Georgia’s population shrinking

• Falling standard of living in Ukraine sets record for last 9 years

• Ukraine will not raise retirement age for now

• Pension fund deficit in Ukraine may reach $5.75 billion in 2015

• Will the pension system in the Donbass start functioning in spring 2015?

• Ukrainian government made a mistake by stopping social payouts in the Donbass

• Lukashenko orders that “Sir Parasites” be given jobs

• In Turkmenistan a new kind of penalty: unpaid labor

• In Kirgizia, those with dual citizenship to be banned from government jobs

• Discussion of the possibility of abolishing visa regime between the EU and Belarus is premature

• Biometric passports will be issued in Ukraine starting January 12

• About 50% of citizens of Kirgizia have submitted data to obtain biometric passports

• Uzbek citizens continue to enter Russia on current biometric passports

• Residents of the Donbass can enter Russia without foreign travel passports

• In 2014 more than 2 thousand citizens of Moldova were not allowed into Russia, 238 into the EU

• Ukrainian government believes that the number of displaced persons in the east of Ukraine comes to 823 thousand people

• In Kazakhstan, the number of recipients of the status of Oralman fell to 8,247 in 2014

• More than 5,000 Ukrainian citizens of Jewish origin left for Israel in 2014

• Citizens of Belarus will be able to stay in Russia without registration for 90 days

• Armenian citizens given equal rights as Russians to work in the Russian Federation  

• 92% of young migrant workers from Armenia prefer to work in Russia

• Uzbekistan, expecting a return of migrant workers, is creating jobs for them

• In November, remittances to Moldova from migrant workers fell to the 2009 crisis level

World news

• World Population Foundation puts world population at nearly 7.3 billion people  

• The number of refugees in the world has reached a record 46.3 million

• Fewer than 1 million Chinese couples in 2014 applied for second child permit

• In Illinois, oldest man in the U.S. dies at the age of 110 years

• In the next five years the working-age population of Estonia will decrease by 44,000 people

• In Montenegro the minimum pension is 100 euros

• In Lithuania, pensions increased for first time in six years – by 4.76 euros

• In run-up to elections, Greek Prime Minister promises to return pensions to Pontic Greeks

• In 2014 over 200 million people worldwide were in need of aid

• Child benefits increased in Estonia

• In Lithuania, introduction of the euro has reduced the number of millionaires by nearly ten-fold

• In France, record-high unemployment

• Unemployment and corruption are Spain’s main problems

• Unemployment rate in Italy has returned to its historical record

• By the end of 2014 the registered unemployment rate in Estonia stood at 4.3%

• Unemployment rate in Lithuania will be above 10% for another two years

• Bulgaria expects to maintain current level of unemployment in 2015

• Unemployment in Iran came to 10.5%

• In 2014 2,300 Russians received Finnish citizenship

• An increase in the number of those giving up Estonian citizenship for Russian

• Residence permits in Latvia can be obtained by purchasing 250,000 euros worth of securities

• House of Representatives approves bill blocking Obama’s immigration reform

• Migration from Cuba increased by 117% after Obama’s announcement

• Poland repatriating around 200 people from the east of Ukraine

• Spain wants to introduce border controls between Schengen countries

• After terrorist attack in Paris, Italy will check all arriving immigrants

• Diaspora has sent about 263 million euros worth of remittances home to Montenegro

• London Mayor calls on all arriving migrants to learn English

• Are migrants becoming a burden on the German economy?

• Three-quarters of polled Turkish migrants want to leave Denmark

• In 2014 over 276,000 illegal migrants came to the EU

• The composition of the flow of illegal immigrants to the USA has changed dramatically

• Lebanon imposes restrictions on the entry of Syrian refugees as of January 2015

• Bulgaria has no more capacity to receive refugees

• EU wants to return 7.5 thousand refugees to Bulgaria

• In Iraq, more than 15,000 people killed in 2014

• The number of victims of the Ebola virus in West Africa has reached 8,371 persons

• Legalization of marijuana in the USA has not yet yielded results

• Does profession influence the probability of marriage?

• Biologists blame low fertility on solar activity

The newspapers write about

• “Gazeta.ru” on demographic and social problems in Russia

• “Opec.ru” on family values and sexual norms in the CIS

• “Kommersant” on barring microfinance organizations from dealing with maternity capital money

• “Telegraph” on Erdogan’s attitude to contraception

• “Nezavisimaya gazeta” on reducing mortality from heart disease

• “Nezavisimaya gazeta” on reducing maternal mortality in Russia

• “Gigamir.net” on the country with the lowest road accident mortality rate

• “Nezavisimaya gazeta” on driving restrictions for people with mental disabilities

• “Izvestiya” on the harm of reducing excise taxes on alcohol

• “Polit.ru” on an impending alcohol catastrophe

• “Novye izvestiya” on the reduction in mortality from narcotics

• “Pharmreview.kz” on risk factors for noncommunicable diseases

• “Kommersant” on uninsured people in the Russian Pension Fund

• “Rossiyskaya Gazeta-online” on increasing the retirement age in Germany

• “Kommersant-Dengi” on the crisis and salaries

• “Kommersant” on a reduction in Russian salaries

• “Vedomosti” on the crisis and the labor market

• “RBK” on the expected rise in unemployment in Russia

• “Kommersant” on the economy and social policy in Ukraine

• “Izvestiya” on a reduction in migrant remittances from Russia

• “Vedomosti” and “Nezavisimaya Gazeta” on a reduction in the number of labor migrants in Russia due to the crisis

• “Zhamana” and “Vecherniy Bishkek” on the impact of the crisis on migration from Armenia and Kirgizia to Russia

• “Rossiyskaya Gazeta” on migration in Russia in the new year

• “Rossiyskaya Gazeta” and “Rossiyskaya Gazeta-Ekonomika Severo-Zapada” on new migration rules

• “Izvestiya” on the irreducible share of migrants in construction

• “Novye Izvestiya” on the “Migrant 2014” operation

• “Izvestiya” on “rubber” offices

• “Korrespondent.net” on the growth in labor migration from Ukraine

• “Kommersant” on the revocation of preferential migration for Ukrainians in Russia

• “Rossiyskaya Gazeta” on the period of stay in Russia for Belarusians

• “Kommersant” on forced migration to Russia from Ukraine

• “Russkaya Germaniya” and “Rossiyskaya Gazeta” on immigration in Germany

• “Kommersant” on investor visas for Russians in Great Britain

• “Deutsche Welle” on emigration from Russia

• “Paruskg.info” on the problems of persons with dual citizenship in Kirgizia

• “Nezavisimaya gazeta” on ethnic tensions in Russia

• “Paruskg.info” on unaccounted for children in Kirgizia

• “Salon” on secularism in the USA

• “Opec.ru” on cities and city dwellers

• “Rossiyskaya Gazeta” on the quality of life in Russia’s regions

• “Rossiyskaya gazeta” on women bosses

• “Science” on languages and information

• “BBC” on lefties and righties

Read books and magazines

• Russian Statistical Yearbook. 2014

• Adolescent pregnancy: a review of the evidence

• United States of America. Health systems in transition

• Migration bridges in Eurasia

• Ethnic policy in the Baltic States

• Through the pages of the journals “Narodonaselenie” (“Population”) and “Ekologiya” (“Ecology”)

• Contents of the journal “Demographic Research”

Book anniversary

• M.V. Ptukha.  Essays on the History of Statistics, 17^th-19^th Centuries. 70 years since the book’s publication

Profession: researcher

• New approaches and trends in the study of the family.  Meeting of the demographic section of the Central House of Scientists of the Russian Academy of Sciences

• 100 years since the birth of Timon Vasilevich Ryabushkin

New in the reading room

• M.V. Ptukha. Essays on the History of Statistics, 17^th-19^th Centuries

Satirical column

• The desertification of Russia for patriotic reasons