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Current topic: Dacha mobility, the dacha mentality and dacha studies

• A myriad of return movements

• Dachas and dacha dwellers

• The “philosophy” of dacha life

• The creation of “dacha studies”

• International comparisons

• Definitions, statistics, evaluations

• Areas of distribution of second homes

• Conclusion

• Links to related topics

• Topics of previous issues

Russian demographic barometer

Demographic results of the first half of 2015 (Part II)

• In January-June 2015 there were signs of declining fertility - 0.7% fewer babies were born than in the same period in 2014

• In the first half of 2015 the number of registered marriages and divorces decreased in comparison with the same period in 2014

• Net migration of Russia in the first half of 2015 decreased by 17%

• The intensity of Russia’s internal migration continues to gradually grow

• The population size of 75 out of 85 subject regions of the federation increased due to migration exchange with CIS countries, but in most of them the population was shrinking due to migration exchanges with other regions of Russia

Through the eyes of the analysts

• Man and nature in the rural development of Nechernozemye

• Russia’s changing rural settlement in the late XX - early XXI century

• Spatial contrasts of the countryside

• The development process of suburbanization by the example of the Belgorod agglomeration

Take care of women!

• Sex education in schools in Eastern Europe and Central Asia

• Kirgizia is preparing to introduce compulsory sex education in schools

In the vastness of Russia

• Rosstat’s preparations for 2020 census going full steam ahead

• Russia to conduct micro-census

• More and more Russians avoid taking part in census

• Moscow to host seminar on the demography of BRICS Member States

• Question of creating a demographic agency is not up for discussion

• Russia’s Finance Ministry proposes to raise the retirement age in 2016

• There is no bill to raise the retirement age yet

• Matvienko in favor of a gradual increase in retirement age

• FIU estimates “savings” from limiting payments to pensioners with income above 1 million rubles

• Reduction of social payments will turn poverty into destitution

• Russian structure of consumption corresponds to the models characteristic of developing countries

• Half of Russians approve of premarital cohabitation to “test their feelings”

• Half of “New Moscow” residents work in the city center

• Has the number of “rubber flats” in Russia decreased by 66 times?

• Russians have become more concerned about unemployment

• Against the background of the crisis, are Muscovites leaving the capital together with provincials?

• Ministry of Labor proposes for the first time to limit the proportion of migrants in construction

• Russia will abstain from giving EU advice concerning the situation with refugees

• In 2015, about a thousand Syrians applied for asylum in Russia

• Russians to be tested for HIV before marriage

• Alcohol is the cause of two thirds of violent deaths in Russia

• Mortality in Russia from “drunken” traffic accidents has risen significantly

• Russia’s chief narcologist proposes banning the sale of tobacco to those under 21 years of age

• Employers urged to test employees for drug addiction

• Infant mortality steadily declining

• Mortality from myocardial infarction in Moscow has dropped to 10 percent

• Government refuses to ban abortion pill

• Russia will not produce products with GMOs

• Moscow tops environmental rating of Russian cities

Eurasian panorama

• The population of Ukraine as of 1 August 2015 was 42,813,557 people

• The population of Kazakhstan is over 17,563,000 people

• The population of Astana has increased by 13 thousand people

• Moldovan government will discuss raising the retirement age with the IMF

• Ukrainian government expects to be conducting pension reform until 2016

• Conscription age in Ukraine will be raised

• Minimum wage for August in Belarus indexed at 5.1%

• Ukraine’s average salary lower than Tajikistan’s

• Rada raises subsistence level and minimum wage

• Moldovans spending less on food and more on health

• Real money incomes of Belarusians continue to fall

• More than a third of Ukraine’s population below the poverty line

• World Bank dissatisfied with reforms in Ukraine’s banking and pension sectors

• World Bank allocates $500 million to Ukraine for development of the financial sector

• World Bank supports reform of public services for employment and social protection of the population in Uzbekistan

• World Bank issues $50 million loan to Belarus for modernizing education

• In Kirgizia, 20 universities per 1 million persons

• UN program will help university graduates get jobs in Armenia

• In Moldova, 30,644 persons are officially unemployed

• Citizens of Armenia and Belarus will be allowed on the territory of both countries for 30 days without registration

• Citizens of Tajikistan have begun leaving their country less often in search of work

• The number of internally displaced persons in Ukraine has reached 1.48 million

• In Moldova, package of anti-smoking laws goes into force

• About 2 million Ukrainian children at risk of contracting polio

• About 300 thousand children in Belarus are overweight

• In Uzbekistan there is no law forbidding domestic violence

• In Azerbaijan 61% of the population are internet users

World news

• In the Czech Republic, the population has risen to 10,540,000 people due to migration

• Life expectancy of Chinese women has increased by four years over a decade

• In Israel over the past year 4 times more people were born than died

• In Israel, mortality among Muslims declining

• Mortality in the Republic of Korea is decreasing

• Child mortality in the world has fallen below 6 million cases for the first time ever

• The number of people in Japan over 80 years of age has exceeded 10 million

• Polish President introduces bill to Diet to lower the retirement age

• Lithuania plans to limit students’ employment opportunities

• European Court recognizes time spent going to and from work as part of the working day for certain categories of workers

• Hungary’s migration measures look like a violation of UN and EU norms

• Finland intends to tighten immigration policy

• Over 106,000 children have sought asylum in Europe

• USA will take up to 100,000 refugees

• European Union has decided to resettle 120,000 refugees

• Migrants in Europe cannot freely choose their place of residence

• EU will identify and expel “economic” migrants

• Migrants not from combat zones must leave Germany

• Finland will raise taxes to cover refugee costs

• Lithuania should show “solidarity with the EU” on issues of receiving refugees

• Czech Republic and Slovakia split on the issue of quotas for migrants

• Parents who smoke are the main cause of teen smoking

• Vietnam is Southeast Asia’s leader in number of abortions

• Spain’s Senate passes law restricting terms of abortion

• Poland refuses to completely ban abortion

• One-third of Brits born in 2015 will become victims of dementia in old age

• Has it turned out that “normal blood pressure” was not low enough?

• The number of bone fractures will double by 2040

• Will air pollution be killing 6.6 million people annually by 2050?

• Over half of the French have come out against marriage equality for gays

The newspapers write about…

• “Rossiyskaya gazeta”, “Gazeta.ru” and “Pravda.ru” on the 2015 micro-census

• “Radio Svoboda” on Russia’s socio-demographic problems

• “BNews.kz” on the demographic history and demographic policy of Kazakhstan

• “Radio Svoboda” on mortality in Russia

• “Economy Times” on reform of Russian health care

• “Meditsinskaya gazeta” on the Ministry of Health’s objection to independent monitoring

• “RBK” on falsifying medical statistics

• “Kommersant” on registration and treatment

• “Kommersant” on health and lifestyle

• “Die Welt” on the unhealthy lifestyle of Europeans

• “RIA Novosti” on the success of post-Soviet countries in the fight against smoking

• “Gazeta.ru” on Russians’ spending on food, alcohol and cigarettes

• “Project Syndicate” on the “success” in the fight against malaria

• “delfi.lv” on the availability of contraception

• “RBK” on the impact of abortion restrictions

• “Russkaya sluzhba BBC” on the campaign to defend abortion

• “Lenta.ru” on migrants and politics in the USA

• “Kommersant” on threats to the Schengen Agreement

• “Kommersant” on refugees in Europe

• “Bild” on expected flows of refugees to the EU

• “Die Welt” on Orban’s attitude to the refugee problem

• “Deutsche Welle” and “RBK” on the economics of the refugee problem for Germany

• “The Wall Street Journal” on making money off of refugees

• “Slon.ru” on the adaptation of refugees in Germany

• “Telegraph” on refugees in Latvia

• “La Stampa” on the reflection of Europe’s refugee problem in the Russian media

• “RBK” on limiting the proportion of migrant workers on construction sites

• “RIA Novosti” on the reduction of migrant remittances from Russia to Uzbekistan

• “Nezavisimaya gazeta” on the outflow of Russians from the east of Stavropol

• “Izvestiya” and “Belyi Parus” on the American demographic bomb

• “Kommersant” on the crisis and the labor market

• “RBK” on the reduction of the average salary and the “May decrees”

• “Gazeta.ru” on a ranking of countries by the wellbeing of their elderly

• “Brestskaya gazeta” on Belarus’ retirement age

• “Kommersant” on gender restrictions in labor

• “Vedomosti” on urbanization in India and China

• “Izvestiya” on a “Federal Demographic Agency”

• “Vedomosti” on a Far East Agency

• “Kommersant” on the opinions on moving the Russian capital [Why do you want to change this? Your version could mean the opinions of anyone – including Americans! – on moving the capital. I would leave my version, perhaps changing ‘the capital’ to ‘their capital’]

• “Vsemirnaya sluzhba BBC” on euthanasia in the world

• “Slon.ru” on an elixir of immortality

• “Komsomolskaya Pravda” on death from selfies

From the archive folders

• The post-war population of the Soviet Union

• On the results of statistical processing of voter lists for elections to the Supreme Soviet of the USSR February 10, 1946

• On preliminary results of statistical processing of voter lists for elections to the Supreme Soviets of soviet republics February, 9, 14 and 16 1947

• On fertility and mortality in 1950

• On fertility and mortality in 1951

• On the population size of the USSR

• Draft Decree of the Council of Ministers of the USSR on the declassification of population data

Read books and newspapers

• The economic crisis, health systems and public health in Europe

• Stolypin migrants in the Altai District: relocation, land provision, economic and socio-cultural adaptation

• Ethno-demographic processes in Kazakhstan and adjacent territories

• The EU in the world. 2015 edition

• Levels & trends in child mortality. Report 2015

• Through the pages of the journals “Zdravookhranenie Rossiyskoy Federatsii” (“Health care of the Russian Federation”) and “Ekonomika i organizatsiya promyshlennovo proizvodstva (EKO)” (“Economics and Organization of Industrial Production”)

• Contents of the “Journal of Population Economics”

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• Mark Solomonovich Tolts turns 65

• Best wishes from demographer colleagues

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