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Current topic: Internal migrant workers in the system of migrations in post-Soviet Russia. The background

• Horizontal instead of vertical mobility and the phenomenon of internal migrant workers

• The polarization of the countryside

• The polarization of cities

• Differences in earnings: large cities, suburbs, remote places

• The incompleteness of Russian urbanization

• The transition from a labor shortage model with a large number of employed to one of labor surplus

• The unreadiness of most people for small business and the “free time trap”

• Conclusion

• Links to related topics

• Topics of previous issues

World demographic barometer

Remittances of International migrants: 2014

• The number of international migrants, made more precise according to the last round of censuses has exceeded 247 million people

• In 2014, according to preliminary estimates of the World Bank, total remittances of international migrants came to 583 billion US dollars, of which 436 billion were sent to developing countries

• The largest volume of remittances is sent to India - $ 70 billion

• The largest volume of remittances is sent from the United States - nearly 54 billion dollars in 2013

• Almost 20% of remittances from the US are sent to Mexico, 26% of those from Russia to Uzbekistan, and 24% of those from Saudi Arabia to India

• The cost of remittances is declining, but remains too high, especially among the countries of sub-Saharan Africa

Through the eyes of the analysts

• Internal migrant workers as a new factor of social life

• Non-agricultural migrant workers in Russia in the second half of the 19^th – beginning of the 20^th centuries: the main stages of its study and characterization

• Internal Russian labor migration: its prevalence and the geography of its movements

• Natives of Dagestan in Western Siberia: on the question of the formation of translocal communities

Q&A

• Russians have rated their financial situation

• Russians’ ideas about their spending on food

• The truth about health!

• Is emigration losing popularity among Russians?

In the vastness of Russia

• Mortality among Russians has declined steadily in recent years

• Putin explains the increase in mortality in 2015 by the increase in life expectancy

• Will the total fertility rate reach 1.85 by 2020?

• Has civil marriage in Russia been legalized de facto?

• Matvienko does not support the idea of equating a civil marriage with a lawful one

• The recognition of religious marriage ceremonies legalizes polygamy

• Minimum monthly wage has ceased to fulfill its main social function

• One in three Russians wants to change jobs for better pay

• Russian government is satisfied with the changes in the social sphere of Sevastopol

• The number of orphans in Russia has decreased by 40% over 5 years

• Deputies want to ensure the right of children from large families to study at the same school

• Russia’s “happiness index” has grown

• Matvienko considers the introduction of penalties for parasitism illegal and immoral

• Official unemployment rate falls to 0.1%

• Medvedev calls the introduction of plastic cards instead of passports a progressive idea

• Ministry of Communications is ready to replace paper passports of citizens of the Russian Federation with biometric ones

• Proposal to allow Russians to have two foreign travel passports at the same time

• Has the uncontrolled migration flow to Russia stopped for the first time?

• Employment of refugees from the Ukraine is made difficult because of registration

• Migrants are forbidden to work outside of their profession

• Voronezh deputies propose to exempt migrant agricultural workers from exams

• FMS will not deport HIV-infected foreigners with relatives in Russia

• Mortality from road accidents often does not depend on doctors

• Around 11% of Russians annually refuse to vaccinate their children

• Over 40% of Russian conscripts do not meet health requirements

• In Russia the problems of determining disability remain acute

• Health Ministry proposes to allow the donation of children’s organs

• ROC puts to shame Duma deputies not voting to remove abortions from mandatory health insurance

• Half of Russians satisfied with the state of their health

• Fewer than half of Russians are treated at public clinics

Eurasian panorama

• On January 1, 2015 3,729,500 people were living in Georgia

• Natural population decrease in Belarus has grown by almost a third

• Ukrainian government has submitted draft of a new pension reform

• Ukrainians will be able to inherit the pension of their relatives

• Will former citizens of Kazakhstan be able to stay in Russia without a pension?

• In Ukraine, 1.8 million unemployed

• Registered unemployment in Belarus has risen by 73.1%

• Size of the unemployment benefit in Belarus will not increase

• Turkmen authorities are driving the possessors of dual citizenship out of the country

• Decision on visa-free regime with the EU for Ukraine and Georgia is still pending

• Is the EU not giving Ukraine a visa-free regime because of the situation in its economy?

• In past year 460 thousand citizens of Moldova have been to the EU without visas

• Kirgizia developing a concept of migration policy until 2025

• Uzbekistan not yet planning to open a representative office in the Russian Migration Service

• Migrants from EAEC countries have been fully equated with local workers

• Kirgiz migrants will find it easier to be legalized in Kazakhstan after Kirgizia’s entry into the EAEC

• Over 15 thousand children of internal migrants in Kirgizia are in the care of relatives

• Some formerly deported Tajik citizens have been allowed to return to Russia

• The volume of money transfers from Russia to CIS countries has dropped by almost half

• Within three-month period in 2015 $239.73 million worth of remittances were sent to Moldova

• Global Fund to Fight AIDS demands that Kirgizia reimburse $121 thousand

World news

• On January 1, 2015 there were 1,313,271 people living in Estonia

• Over last ten years the number of children living in Lithuania has decreased by 30%

• EU will not expand for at least the next 10 years

• The next UN Secretary-General should be a woman, says Ban Ki-moon

• More than 50% of the Bulgarian population lives below the poverty line

• Authorities in New York intend to pull about 800 thousand inhabitants out of poverty over the next 10 years

• Denmark records the greatest number of employed since 2009

• The unemployment rate of Estonian youth without higher education is 19%

• Finland expects record unemployment for past 15 years

• EU needs to strengthen pan-European border controls

• EU takes first steps to solve the problems of migrants and refugees

• Merkel urges EU countries to accept refugees from Libya

• Latvian authorities don’t want to accept refugees from the “third world”

• Estonia does not intend to accept refugees from Africa

• Germany will not give asylum to migrants from the north of Montenegro

• Saudi Arabia will create center for provision of humanitarian assistance to Yemen

• 115 children have become victims of the armed conflict in Yemen

• The death toll from the earthquake in Nepal has exceeded 7.7 thousand

• The number of people infected with the Ebola virus in West Africa has exceeded 26.3 thousand people

• Is the Ebola epidemic in West Africa nearing the end?

• Global spending on cancer medicines has exceeded $100 billion

• Europe’s most overweight people live in northern countries

• Chinese scientists genetically modify human embryo for the first time

• Half of the world’s languages may disappear by the end of the century

• Will Arctic summers see no ice by the year 2040?

• The movement against gay marriage in France has been transformed into a political party

The newspapers write about

• “Vedomosti” on demographics and the end of the Chinese economic miracle

• “Forbes” on Russia’s worsening demographic situation

• “Ekspert” on the labor market and migration in the EU

• “Telegraf” on Riga’s shrinking population

• “Chas” on the dying out of Latvia’s provinces

• “RBK” on the weak influence of the maternity capital on fertility rates in Russia

• “Russkaya sluzhba BBC” on the risk of death during pregnancy

• “NRG” on the earthquake in Nepal and surrogacy in Israel

• “EurasiaNet” on early marriage in Kirgizia

• “Tages anzeiger” on family values in Latin America

• “Vedomosti” on “traditional values” in Russia

• “Nezavisimaya gazeta” on the first fruits of the new policy on migrant workers

• “Kommersant” and “Novaya gazeta” on refugees in the world and in Europe

• “El Mundo” and “Atlantico” on Europe’s immigration problems

• “Kommersant” on how Russia is hindering Europe’s fight with illegal immigration

• “The Guardian” on the growth of immigration in Israel

• “Izvestia.com.ua” on lines for Polish visas in Kiev

• “Kommersant” on the Baltimore riots

• “Ekho Moskvy” on the USA’s multilayered racial problems

• “Opec.ru” on the danger for drug users of contracting AIDS and hepatitis

• “UzDaily.uz” on the benefits of immunization

• “Meditsinskaya gazeta” on the tuberculosis problem

• “The Washington Post” on modifying the human genome

• “Novye izvestiya” and “Vedomosti” on the funded pension

• “FINANCE.UA” on pension reform in Ukraine

• “Kommersant” on the possibility of depriving “shadow workers” of Mandatory Medical Insurance

• “Vedomosti” on shrinking consumption in Russia

• “Rossiyskaya gazeta” on poverty in Russian cities

• “Dengi” on the problems of Russian education

• “Vedomosti” on Russia’s housing problem

• “BBC” on megacities

• “Ogonyok” on the aging of old age

• “The Sunday Times” on an undefined gender

Read books and newspapers

• Towards a migration policy based on facts

• Integration of migrants: Concepts and Practice

• The awareness of migrants about TB and HIV

• Migration and the labor market

• Women and men of the Kirgiz Republic. 2009-2013

• Through the pages of the magazines “Migratsiya XXI vek” (“Migration in the 20^th century”) and “Problemy prognozirovaniya” (“Problems of Forecasting”)

• Contents of the journal “Migrations Societe”

Profession: researcher

• Congratulations to Georgiy Mikhailovich Lappo on receiving the Constantine Medal of the Russian Geographic Society!

• 85 years since the birth of Yuri Alexandrovich Levada

• Yuri Levada. Public opinion on the horizon of centuries

• From the memoirs about Yuri Alexandrovich Levada

• Scientific seminar in memory of Valentina Sergeyevna Steshenko