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

• The geography of internal labor migration

• Changes in the attractiveness of cities

• The intensity and directions of internal migrant labor in separate regions

• The Kostroma and Tula regions

• Between the Russian capitals

• The Stavropol region

• Conclusion

• Links to related topics

• Topics of previous issues

European demographic barometer

International migrants in the EU-28: 2013-2014

• At the beginning of 2014 4% of the population of the EU-28 were citizens of countries outside the Union, 7% were born abroad

• In 2013, more than 2.3 million residence permits were granted in the EU-28, including 1.3 million for 12 months or more

• In 2013 Ukrainians were the leaders in the number of residence permits received

• On 31 December 2013 18.4 million people had valid permits to stay in the EU-28

• In 2013, the volume of private transfers outside the EU-28 decreased to 28.3 billion €

Through the eyes of the analysts

• Internal migration and the Russian labor market

• Ownership of the north: migrants from Dagestan and the development of urban space in Western Siberia

• The social forest-tundra: geographical mobility as an element of family trajectories of residents of northern cities (using the example of Norilsk and Dudinka)

• Russian barometer of the North Caucasus

Take care of women!

• Less than 40 percent of working women in the world have the right to paid maternity leave

• WHO urges not to indulge in unnecessary caesarean sections

In the vastness of Russia

• In March 5.7% more children born than the year before

• Ministry of Health is campaigning for women not to give birth late

• Concerning the implementation of the “May decrees” the president should be judged according to how they improve the quality of life of Russians

• Ministry of Labor does not support the Ministry of Finance’s proposal to index pensions without inflation

• The minimum wage in Moscow will increase to 16.5 thousand rubles

• Federation Council authorizes immediate use of maternity capital for down payment on mortgage

• Government has allocated over 3 billion rubles to the regions to ensure the availability of facilities for people with disabilities

• Social bloc of government is against the suspension of employment support program

• Ministry of Labor and Rosstat note decline in unemployment in April

• Three regions of the Russian Federation have met targets for reduction of informal employment

• Skvortsova opposes exclusion of non-working citizens from the Mandatory Medical Insurance system

• Federal Migration Service plans to eliminate all “rubber” apartments by year’s end

• FMS proposes to simplify issuance of residence permits to Crimean repatriates

• Migrants from some countries may be exempt from the language exam

• Authorities in the regions must provide a free choice of language of instruction in schools

• Every year in Russia 20 thousand young people die of AIDS

• Moscow City Duma Deputy calls statistics on people with HIV a “fiction”

• The number of mental disorders among children in Russia will increase 20% by the year 2020

• State Duma deputies propose to allow abortions only in state clinics

• Matviyenko calls the idea of abolishing free abortions extremist

• The government does not support a ban on abortion in private clinics

• Russia to have a database of donor organs

• Waiting time for hospitalization in Russia has doubled

• Half of Russians blame themselves for their health problems

• Mizulina opposes return of criminal responsibility for polygamy

Eurasian panorama

• Ukraine’s success depends on EU support

• Small and medium business in the EAEC needs new sources of funding

• Head of Kirgizia signs laws bringing tax legislation into compliance with EAEC principles

• Kazakhstan will direct over $14 billion to roads and networks

• Since 2011 over 460 thousand citizens of Kazakhstan have found jobs through the Roadmap employment program

• Lukashenko orders that the reasons for reduction in the number of employed be found

• EAEC estimates number of unemployed in the Member States Union

• In Tajikistan only 1 in 4 citizens of working age can find a job

• In Kirgizia 8.3% of the economically active population is unemployed

• Romania wants its citizens to be able to enter Moldova with internal passports

• Georgia may get visa-free regime with the EU in 2016

• Kirgiz migrant workers are concerned about the postponement of Kirgizia’s accession to the EAEC

• Will the number of Kirgiz migrants in Russia increase by 80 thousand after joining the EAEC?

• Compared with April 2014, in April 2015 the number of Tajik citizens leaving the country to work decreased by 16.5%

• Around 77 thousand citizens of Kirgizia are on FMS blacklist

• An increased number of refugees from Ukraine returning home through the Rostov region

• Volume of remittances to Tajikistan will continue to decline

• Remittances from abroad to Georgia in April decreased by 24%

• Belarusians drinking less

• In Uzbekistan the number of cancer patients has increased by 20% over last 5 years

• In Belarus 84.5% of believers are Orthodox

World news

• Bulgaria’s population will shrink by 25% by the year 2060

• The number of inhabitants in the EU is shrinking most rapidly in Lithuania

• Bulgaria’s population the poorest in the EU

• Average salary in Montenegro is 478 euros

• 22% of young people in Bulgaria neither study nor work

• Reform of labor market for people with disabilities in Estonia has been postponed for six months

• EU Commission adopts resolution on migration

• Latvian authorities support voluntary acceptance of refugees, but without mandatory quotas

• Lithuania protests against decision of European Commission to introduce mandatory quotas for accepting refugees

• In Estonia, discussion of participation in accepting refugees from the Mediterranean

• Marine Le Pen proposes to work with refugees in their homeland, but not in Europe

• In Sweden the number of refugees from Syria has shrunk and from Ukraine has grown

• The number of residents fleeing Burundi has risen to 105 thousand

• Malaysian authorities deny the existence of slave camps on its territory

• Lithuania’s Seimas has not imposed a ban on the use of alcohol by persons under 20 years of age

• Finns buying less and less alcohol in Estonia

• The number of smokers in the world estimated at one billion people

• Ebola virus has forced WHO to create a reserve fund of $100 million

• Liberia conquers Ebola virus

• Measles vaccination reduces mortality from other diseases

• Intensive care can save the life of a premature baby at the age of 22 weeks

• Drinking coffee reduces the risk of death by 15%

• Does the time of year affect the activity of genes?

• Scientists have developed a system to predict epidemics

• Development of promising therapy for treatment of cystic fibrosis

• At what age should a woman freeze her eggs?

• Obama considers climate change a threat to the security of the USA and the whole world

The newspapers write about…

• “Polit.ru” and “Kommersant” on the rise in mortality

• “Vesti.md” on mortality in Moldova

• “Novye Izvestiya”, “Kommersant” and “Nezavisimaya Gazeta” on the satisfaction of Russians with health services and their own health

• “Golos Armenii” on public health and health care in Armenia

• “Kommersant” on the HIV/AIDS threat

• “Kazakhstanskaya Pravda” on violent murders in the world

• “El Pais” on victims of violence in Brazil

• “Gigamir.net” on the influence of heat and cold on mortality

• “Meditsinskaya gazeta” on a ranking of countries by maternal and child mortality

• “Paruskg.ifo” on maternal mortality in Kirgizia

• “Novaya gazeta” and “Gazeta.ru” on the dangers of abortion restrictions in Russia

• “RBK” on “early marriages” in the Caucasus

• “EurasiaNet” on prenuptial blood tests in Tajikistan

• “Chas” on demographic and migration problems in Latvia

• “Moslenta” on migration and the demographic situation in Moscow

• “Lenta.ru” on migrants from Kirgizia in Moscow

• “Foreign Affairs” on the worsening of opportunities for labor migration from Tajikistan to Russia

• “Komsomolskaya Pravda-Kyrgystan” on preferences for migrants from Kirgizia after joining the EAEC

• “Nezavisimaya gazeta” on the “success” of the new Russian migration policy

• “Kommersant” on easing exam requirements for citizens of “friendly countries”

• “Kommersant” on the “Russian language” program

• “Kommersant” on Russia’s human capital

• “Deutsche Welle” and “Die Welt” on a possible war with the Mediterranean smugglers

• “Nezavisimaya gazeta” on the fight against illegal immigration in the UK

• “NRG” and “Kursor” on Ethiopian Jews

• “Lenta.ru” on the nature of xenophobia

• “Kommersant-Vlast” on the standard of living in Russia

• “Novye izvestiya” and “Kommersant” on shadow employment

• “Kommersant” on the pension system and the issue of raising the retirement age

• “The Atlantic” on clinical death

• “BBC” on moving underground

Read books and magazines

• Republic of Bashkortostan. Demographic report

• Demography and socio-economic problems of population

• Problems of demography, medicine and health in Russia: past and present

• World Health Statistics 2015

• The USSR in WW II: Occupation. The Holocaust. Stalinism

• Through the pages of the magazines “Sotsiologicheskie issledovaniya” (“Sociological studies”) and “Mirovaya ekonomika i mezhdunarodnye otnosheniya” (“The World Economy and International Relations”)

• Contents of the journal “Studies in Family Planning”

Profession: researcher

• Anatoly Vasilevich Topilin turns 75

• James W. Vaupel turns 70

• Alexander Alexandrovich Avdeyev turns 60