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Current topic: Geography and Economics of the Russian prison system

• Ways of studying the geography of the FPS (Federal Penitentiary Service)

• The history of the formation of the network of Russia’s correctional facilities

• The modern geography of correctional facilities

• The demographic weight of the “prison population” in sparsely populated areas

• Mixed effects of the closure of remote “zones”

• What is the point of labor in penal colonies?

• The geography of prison production

• Conclusion

• Links to related topics

• Topics of previous issues

Russian demographic barometer

• Crime in Russia, 2014

• In 2014, the drop in crime in Russia slowed down

• The number of crimes related to drug trafficking has continued to grow

• The reduction in the number of murders and attempted murders is also slowing down; in 2014 the number was 8.2 per 100 thousand people

• The number of deaths in road accidents remained the same as in 2013 - 27 thousand

• Most offenses are committed between the ages of 16 and 30

• In 2014, 719,000 people were convicted; 29% of them received prison sentences

• As of 1 August 2015 about 650 thousand people were incarcerated

Through the eyes of the analysts

• Trust, welfare and political economy: Explaining national differences in the use of imprisonment. Part one.

• Trust, welfare and political economy: Explaining national differences in the use of imprisonment. Part two.

• The Gulag’s dry residue

• The geography of unfreedom: on the infrastructure of deportation and the Soviet security regime

• Limiting territorial mobility and the construction of space from the Stalin era to the present day

Take care of women!

• WHO on the benefits of breastfeeding

• Breastfeeding in Russia

• Demoscope’s comments

In the vastness of Russia

• Russia will leave the ranks of the top ten most populous countries by 2050

• Will Russia’s population be halved by the year 2050?

• In Russia, the overall mortality rate is increasing

• The contribution of the elderly to the overall mortality rate in Russia is increasing

• Fertility in Moscow grew by 3% in January-July

• The number of marriages registered in Moscow has decreased

• Russia preparing for the microcensus

• State Duma to adopt law on raising the retirement age for civil servants by the end of 2015

• Has a moratorium on the funded part of pensions become an even more urgent question?

• The choice between funded and distributive pensions may be extended until 2018

• Over 3 million families have improved their living conditions with the maternity capital

• 200 thousand children will go to private kindergartens using the maternity capital

• Getting a child ready for school in 2015 has become almost 50% more expensive

• 100 thousand first-graders in Moscow

• Most social and economic problems have begun worrying Russians less

• Unemployment in Russia decreased by 0.1% in July

• Rostourism proposes to introduce mandatory fingerprinting of tourists from Europe

• FMS has developed law “On granting asylum in the Russian Federation”

• Every tenth university student expresses desire to leave the country after graduation

• Russians have begun taking to drink and committing suicide more often

• 67% of Russians believe that there are not yet comfortable conditions for the disabled

• Senators introduce draft law to State Duma on baby boxes in Russia

• Ministry of Health will take balanced approach to limiting the importation of medical equipment

Eurasian panorama

• UN predicts rapid growth of population of Tajikistan

• Azerbaijani population will increase to 12.1 million people by 2050

• The population of Kirgizia is almost 6 million people

• The number of Ukrainians has decreased by 164 thousand people

• Nearly 7 thousand people have been killed since the beginning of the conflict in eastern Ukraine

• In Belarus, 2019 census will be held using population register

• Real income continues to fall in Belarus

• In Moldova, wages are rising, while real income is falling

• Salaries in Ukraine will remain at pre-crisis level

• 58% of Ukrainians are not ready to endure economic hardship for a better life in the future

• Lukashenko signs decree on increasing pensions

• Ukraine expects to receive visa-free regime with the EU by 2016

• The number of registered displaced persons in Ukraine has reached 1.45 million

• Labor migration from Tajikistan has decreased

• Georgian government wants to protect the labour rights of citizens abroad

• Remittances to Georgia have fallen by 24.2%

• The volume of remittances to Kirgizia has fallen by 25%

• The language issue is only in 20^th place among Ukrainians’ problems

• In Turkmenistan only 8% of the population smoke

• Azerbaijan to ban smoking in public places

• In Kirgizia, child mortality is down

• In Kirgizia the maternal mortality rate is steadily decreasing

• During the last seven years of the immunoprophylaxis program in Ukraine there has been a shortage of funding

World news

• Asians and Africans will make up 80% of the world population by 2050

• In most countries of Eastern Europe the population is declining

• The solving of demographic problems is a long-term priority for Latvia

• China may make population growth a priority

• In Germany begins a rise in fertility

• In a small Italian town the church will pay compensation for a third child

• Japanese centenarians will no longer be encouraged with silver sakazuki

• The world’s safest countries have been announced

• Every fifth resident of Lithuania is below the poverty line

• Unemployment rate in Lithuania has gone down to 9.4%

• Lithuanian government supports referendum on dual citizenship

• Migration crisis in Europe is the biggest since World War II

• Conflicts with migrants becoming a problem for Europe

• Britain and France have reached an agreement to combat migration

• The total number of migrants in Germany has reached 10.9 million

• Since the beginning of 2015 250,000 illegals have arrived in Europe by sea

• Teenage refugees arriving in droves in Sweden without parents

• Over 400,000 migrants have applied for asylum in the EU since the beginning of the year

• Germany expects an influx of 750,000 refugees this year

• Slovak government refuses to accept Muslim refugees

• Trump promises to rid America of illegal migration

• Myanmar parliament approves prohibition on citizens’ changing religion

• The number of people infected with the Ebola virus in West Africa has surpassed 28 thousand people

• The number of feeble-minded persons in world will triple in next 35 years

• Overwork increases risk of heart attack

The newspapers write about…

• “Rossiyskaya gazeta” on projections of world population

• “Interfaks” on changing demographic policy in China

• “Den’” and “vesti-ukr.com” on demographic problems in Ukraine

• “Rosbalt” on the decline of Russia’s population

• “The Village” on the causes of mortality in Moscow

• “Novy Den’” on mortality in Russia

• “IA Bloknot” on morbidity and mortality from cancer in Russia

• “RIA Novosti” on HIV in Russia

• “Svobodnaya Pressa” on Russians’ satisfaction with their health care system

• “Meditsinskaya gazeta” on blood donation

• “Project Syndicate” on Europe’s problems with migrants

• “Gazeta.ru” on German threats against the Schengen Agreement

• “Kommersant” and “RBK” on a point system for residence permits

• “REGNUM” on granting work licenses for migrants in Moscow

• “Moslenta” on easing migration for citizens of Kirgizia

• “Nezavisimaya gazeta” on the high cost of deporting illegal immigrants

• “Rossiyskaya gazeta” on “stimulating” internal migration

• “Vedomosti” on the attitude of Russians to “multiethnicity”

• “RBK” on the tolerance of Russians to migrants

• “Courier.co.il” on non-Jews in Israel

• “Nezavisimaya gazeta” on the Catholic Church’s decision to allow remarriage

• “IA Novosti Federatsii” on the opinions of different Russian confessions about divorce

• “Rossiyskaya gazeta” on expanding the use of the maternity capital

• “Rossiyskaya gazeta” on alimony evasion

• “Slon.ru” on banning rich weddings in Tajikistan

• “Forbes” on Russia’s pension problem

• “Polit.ru” on the “pension compromise”

• “Vedomosti” on the Russian labor market

• “Zebra-TV” on the problems of municipal population statistics

Read books and magazines

• Golden Aging: Prospects For Healthy, Active, And Prosperous Aging In Europe And Central Asia

• Demography Report (Eurostat)

• Demographic Yearbook of the Republic of Belarus

• Children and young people of the Republic of Belarus

• The Russia economy in 2014

• Through the pages of the journals “Problemy sotsialnoy gigieny, zdravookhraneniya i istorii meditsiny” (“Problems of Social Hygiene, Health and History of Medicine”) and “Akusherstvo i ginekologiya” (“Obstetrics and Gynecology”)

• Contents of the journal “Population & Societes”

Profession: researcher

• Happy anniversary to Tamara Mikhailovna Maximova

• Happy 65^th birthday to Alexander Vladimorovich Akimov

• A.V.Akimov. World civilizations up to the year 2100

• In memory of Anatoly Rudolfovich Vyatkin