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Current topic: Chinese migration to Kazakhstan

  • The historical background of migration

  • Gradual growth of migration from China

  • There aren’t so many Chinese migrants yet, but…

  • Chinese business as a motor of migration

  • Student migration: China’s “soft power”?

  • Prospects for the development of student migration

  • Repatriating Kazakhs from China

  • Chinese migration and business in Kazakhstan: Challenge or New Opportunities?

  • Links to related topics

  • Topics of previous issues


Eurasian demographic barometer

Labor markets of CIS countries, 2013

  • Population trends among people of working age are moving in different directions

  • Survey of the employment problems being conducted in all CIS countries

  • The economic activity of the population of Moldova and Tajikistan is only slightly more than 40%, but among other CIS countries ranges from 61 to 72%

  • The employment rate of the economically active population varies between 92 and 95%

  • Wages in CIS countries differ several times over

  • Pensioners and migrants in the labor markets of CIS countries

  • Unemployment in CIS countries is 5 to 16% of the economically active population

Through the eyes of the analysts

  • Chinese migration in the post-Soviet space

  • The “Chinese” market “Shanghai” in Irkutsk: its role in the life of the urban community

  • China needs to know more about the world – and the world more about China

  • Moscow Tatars in a changing Muslim community

  • Chinese migrants and China-phobia in modern Mongolia: an analysis of periodicals

Polling

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Q&A

  • Problems and concerns of Russians

  • The main things in life: family, children and health

  • How to find a mate?

  • Marriage, children, adultery: now and 25 years ago

  • Migration and the labor market

  • The most important and frequent infringements of rights

In the vastness of Russia

  • In Russia last year 1,947,000 children were born

  • Russian authorities intend to increase life expectancy in rural areas to 75.6 years

  • In all regions of Russia infant mortality has decreased

  • The number of marriages in Moscow in 2014 increased dramatically

  • Russians’ views on marriage in the last 25 years have hardly changed

  • Ulyukayev considers it possible to gradually increase the retirement age

  • Finance Ministry proposes to gradually increase the retirement age for men and women to age 63

  • Ministry of Labor against raising the retirement age

  • Putin proposes to study raising the retirement age

  • New freezing of pensions savings will lead to the dismantling of the pensions system

  • Medvedev promises to continue indexing pensions according to real inflation

  • April indexation of insurance part of pensions may not occur in 2015

  • Finance Ministry proposes not to index social benefits and public sector wages in 2015

  • Federal Drug Control Service and FMS may be broken up

  • The number of Muscovites of working age will shrink by one million people by the year 2025

  • The number of unemployed in 2015 may increase by 600-650 thousand

  • The number of unemployed Russians rose by 2.2% for the week

  • Ministry of Labor won’t allow a sharp rise in unemployment

  • Outflow of migrants during the crisis will not be critical for the Russian economy

  • The number of street cleaners in St. Petersburg has decreased by 25%

  • Multifunctional centers for migrant workers are planned to open in cities with million-plus populations

  • In 2015, 3.4 million foreign migrants will take Russian language exam

  • The flow of the population of Ukraine to the Stavropol region increased four-fold in 2014

  • About 27 thousand Ukrainian refugees in temporary accommodation centers in Russia

  • Head of Public Council for FMS calls for early adoption of law on asylum in Russia

  • 27% of Russians are not irritated by migrants

  • Nationalist activity in Russia decreased in 2014

  • Will the ban on headscarves in schools open a public debate?

  • Providing the right to indicate one’s ethnic group in passport will not have disruptive influence on interethnic relations

  • In Russia cancer is the second leading cause of death

  • Will Russia oncologists use alternative treatment schemes?

  • Mortality from respiratory diseases for the year grew by 10 thousand people

  • The death toll in road accidents in 2014 decreased by 2.5%

  • In 2014, in all regions of the North Caucasus except Chechnya, the number of victims of armed conflicts decreased

  • In 2014 the prices of medicines in pharmacies rose by 12.7%

  • Most Russians see the meaning of life in family, children and a clean conscience

Eurasian Panorama

  • The population of Armenia in 2014 decreased by 6,500 people

  • The working-age population of Uzbekistan will reach 22 million people by 2030

  • In Transnistria, census postponed due to crisis

  • IMF proposes that Ukraine raise retirement age for men

  • Poroshenko forbids Ukraine’s women to retire at age 55

  • Court overturns decision of Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine regarding non-payment of pensions in the conflict zone in the southeast

  • Over 1 million Ukrainian pensioners live in “absolute poverty”

  • Tajikistan’s economy is undergoing significant structural changes

  • The main causes of divorce in Armenia are social networks, migration and TV series

  • Will entry of citizens of the Russian Federation to Ukraine by foreign travel passports facilitate control over them?

  • Armenia and Serbia establish bilateral visa-free regime

  • Bulgaria has simplified the issuance of visas to ethnic Bulgarians residing in the south-east of Ukraine

  • Visa-free regime between Ukraine and the EU could be introduced in May

  • Rules for stay of labor migrants from Armenia in the EAEC have been eased

  • Kazakhstan preparing for an influx of migrant workers previously employed in Russia

  • Most migrant workers in Kazakhstan are citizens of Uzbekistan

  • Half of legal migrant workers in Kazakhstan are citizens of China and Turkey

  • President of Transnistria toughens migration rules despite Parliament opposition

  • Flow of Ukrainian migrants to Belarus remains high

  • Over 26 thousand people chose to leave Kazakhstan in 2014

  • Decline in remittances from Russia sends rate of Uzbek currency crashing down  

  • 61.6% of remittances from migrant workers arrived in Moldova from Russia

  • In Kazakhstan last year over 2 thousand people came down with cancer

  • Medicine in Ukraine will be mainly fee-for-service

World news

  • China must radically change its demographic policy

  • Oldest man on planet turns 112

  • The highest salary in Montenegro came to about 122 thousand euros a month

  • In past year 118 small towns disappeared from Latvia’s map

  • Estonia’s GDP grew in the fourth quarter of 2014 by 2.7%

  • In Norway, 61 thousand children have been taken away from their parents over past five years

  • In Latvia, unemployment up again

  • Unemployment in Estonia came to 7.4% in 2014

  • Unemployment rate in Montenegro is 15%

  • Bulgaria simplifies visa regime for citizens of some countries of the CIS

  • Over the past two years a record number of migrants entered Germany

  • Switzerland and the EU fail to overcome differences on issue of labor migration

  • The number of emigrants from Latvia has stabilized

  • More than 200 migrants have died off the coast of Italy

  • Scandinavian countries are faced with the largest influx of refugees after World War II

  • Over 14 thousand Nigerian refugees have arrived in Chad since the beginning of the year

  • Latvia annually registers 11,000 new cancer cases

  • In Latvia, a proposal to restrict abortion

  • Scientists have assessed the consequences of distrust towards contraception

  • The incidence of Ebola has fallen to its lowest level in seven months

  • In Madagascar 71 people died from the plague in September of 2014

  • Supreme Court of Canada has lifted ban on euthanasia

  • In Latvia, an increase in the number of murders

  • US authorities have recorded a steady decline in crime


The newspapers write about

  • “Vedomosti” on global migration policy

  • “REGNUM” on the impact of migration in China on Central Asia

  • “Novye izvestiya” on changes in Russia’s migration policy

  • “Vedomosti” on a possible tightening of registration rules for foreigners

  • “Kommersant-Dengi” on the outflow of migrants from Russia and their role in the economy

  • “Moldavskie vedomosti” on the consequences of prohibiting Moldovan migrants from entering Russia

  • “Vecherniy Bishkek” and “Paruskg.info” on the consequences of the Russian crisis for Kirgiz migrants

  • “Avesta.tj” on the sense for Tajikistan of entering the Trade Union and the EAEC

  • “Gazeta.ru” on banning entry to Ukraine with Russian internal passports

  • “Kazakhstan Today” on the readmission agreement between Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan

  • “Slon.ru” on the departure of expats from Russia

  • “Gazeta.ru” on the harm of emigration

  • “Nezavisimaya gazeta” on citizenship for the Russians of Turkmenistan

  • “RBK” on population projections to 2050

  • “Novye izvestiya” on the natural increase in Russia

  • “Forbes” on the reduction of abortions in Russia

  • “Foreign Policy” on selective abortion in China

  • “Gazeta.ru” on the impact of illiteracy on unplanned pregnancies

  • “Ekspress-K” on the demographic myths of Uzbekistan

  • “Kommersant” on anti-crisis family policy

  • “Kommersant” on social obligations

  • “Vedomosti” and “Novye izvestiya” on the nature of the crisis on the labor market

  • “Kommersant” on the crisis and unemployment

  • “Status Praesens” on the strategy for developing Russian health care

  • “Gazeta.ru” on health care reform

  • “Kommersant” on the strategy for combatting AIDS

  • “Obozrevatel.com” on Ukraine’s oncological problems

  • “Ogonyok” and “Nezavisimaya gazeta” on the problems of Russia’s pension system

  • “Slon.ru” on a possible discussion of raising the retirement age

  • “Nezavisimaya gazeta” on mono-towns and the crisis

  • “Kommersant” on the strategy for rural development

  • “Kommersant-Dengi” on women breadwinners

  • “Meditsinskaya gazeta” on the demographic consequences of Japanese asexuality

  • “Ekspert-Kazakhstan” on Philistinism and social attitudes in Kazakhstan

  • “El Pais” on Christianity in China

  • “Novye izvestiya” on punishing alms-givers in Norway

  • “Nezavisimaya gazeta” on indicating ethnic origin

  • “Slon.ru” on IVF from 2.001 parents

  • “Gazeta.ru” on it’s being early to bury evolution

Read books and magazines

  • Chinese migration in the Republic of Kazakhstan: traditions of the Silk Road and new vectors of cooperation

  • Historical Dynamics of ideas about Chinese merchants, entrepreneurship and business culture in late imperial and modern Russia

  • Germany. Health Systems in Transition

  • Agricultural and demographic results of Stalin’s collectivization

  • Women and men of Russia.  2014

  • Through the pages of the journals “Mediko-sotsialnaya ekspertiza i reabilitatsiya” (“Medical-social examination and rehabilitation”) and “Regionalnye issledovaniya” (“Regional Studies”)

  • Contents of the “Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies”

Profession: researcher

  • Social and legal status of migrant workers in the countries of the Eurasian Economic Union.  Joint meeting of the Demographic section and Law section of the Central House of Scientists of the Russian Academy of Sciences

  • 85 years since the birth of Leonid Yevseyevich Darskiy

  • Leonid Darskiy, Yevgeny Andreyev. Reproduction of the population of certain nationalities in the USSR

New in the reading room

  • Y.M. Andreyev, L.Y. Darskiy.  Demographic models of reproduction

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