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Current topic: Russian dachas in different scales of space and time

• Urbanization and dacha suburbanization in Russia

• Dachas and their study in Russia

• A variety of dacha types

• Dacha dwellers between Moscow and St. Petersburg

• Dachas in resort areas

• The role of dacha dwellers in preserving the population settlement system

• Prospects for the development of dachas in remote rural areas

• Links to related topics

• Topics of previous issues

European demographic barometer

• Economic activity of the population of the EU-28, 2014

• Demographic trends are making it necessary to increase employment and productivity

• In the years 2003-2014 economic activity declined among the young, and increased among older people

• Economic employment of those aged 20-64 has not yet risen to the level of 2007-2008, coming to 69.2% in 2014

• The share of part-time workers in 2013-2014 exceeded 20%

• In 2014 the unemployment rate in the EU-28 fell slightly compared with 2012-2013, coming to 10.2%

• In addition to the 24.8 million unemployed in 2014, employment opportunities for another 22.1 million persons were not fully used

Through the eyes of the analysts

• Dacha life in remote rural areas

• The role of dacha dwellers in the local rural area

• Dacha suburbanization in the Moscow region

• Transformation of the functions of the Moscow region’s rural areas after 20 years of market reforms

Q&A

• Marrying later to help each other out with the housework

• Attitudes to health

• Bringing back Soviet practices to combat alcoholism

• Deviant behavior

• Refugees in Europe

In the vastness of Russia

• In Russia, the number of deaths exceeded the number of births by 3.2%

• By 2050 the population of Russian could fall by 2 million people

• Most Russians do not support raising the retirement age in Russia

• Ministry of Labor rules out raising the retirement age before 2017

• Life expectancy in Moscow increased by almost three years between 2011 and 2014

• About 700 people over a 100 years old living in Moscow

• Micro-census to include questions about state of health for the first time

• Russians do not expect that their pensions will provide for them in old age

• Medvedev proposes to abolish the indexation of pensions for working pensioners

• Length of service requirements for setting public service pensions to be increased

• Medvedev approves list of “small peoples” of the North for setting up pensions

• Regions to receive extra money to support large families

• In Moscow the number of large families has grown by half in five years

• Getting benefits for temporary disability and maternity will get harder

• Over 9 billion rubles to be allocated for support of disabled people in the regions

• In Russian Federation, the number of mothers giving up their newborns has shrunk

• Since January, labor relations of more than a million people have been legalized

• In Russia the number of highly skilled workers has risen

• The number of scientists in Russia has grown for the first time in 15 years

• Labor Ministry proposes to increase the maximum amount of unemployment benefits

• More than 1.5 million foreign citizens barred from entering Russia

• FMS wants to distribute compatriots evenly throughout the regions

• Will a point system for obtaining a permanent residence permit attract foreigners?

• Head of Russian Academy of Sciences proposes more active recruitment of talented foreigners to Russia

• Migrants bring Moscow more revenue than problems

• Cost of work license for Moscow region migrants to remain the same until 2016

• Federal Drug Control Service calculates that 3 million Russians use drugs daily

• Will selling alcohol to those 21 and older help to overcome the demographic hole?

• Russians drinking less during crisis

• Ministry of Health allows Russians to smoke in building entrances

• Mortality from stroke has been cut in half over last 10 years

• Russia becomes one of top ten leaders in fight against non-communicable diseases in 2015

• Government criticizes all of Mizulina’s anti-abortion bills

• In State Duma bill to be submitted on the right to mass health examinations without loss of earnings

• Ministry of Health needs to increase funding for 2016

• WHO will assist Russia in resuming cooperation with the G8 countries on health issues

• Proposal to take away driver’s licenses for overdue fines

• Russia to create association of crisis centers for women with children

Eurasian panorama

• In Moldova 16% of the population are 60 and over

• By 2025 25% of the population of Moldova will be retired

• One in five inhabitants of Belarus is elderly

• Armenia is a country with an aging population

• World Bank proposes that Azerbaijan carry out pension reform

• Could Azerbaijan increase the retirement age?

• New pension system to begin operating in Georgia in 2017

• Average pension in Belarus was 2.2 times higher than the subsistence minimum for pensioners

• More than 640 thousand Belarusian pensioners continue to work

• Pensioners in Moldova live without basic amenities

• 28% of population in Ukraine living below the poverty line

• Subsistence minimum for men of working age in Georgia is 68.6 dollars

• Despite crisis, average salary in Moldova is growing

• Minimum wage in Moldova is lowest in Europe

• Abolishing assistance for birth of child will not affect fertility level in Ukraine

• Azerbaijan to introduce compulsory medical insurance

• EU helped Kirgizia to implement educational development strategy

• In Minsk, the number of officially unemployed increased more than fourfold for the year

• 68% of Ukrainian top managers are ready to change their country of residence

• In the first half of the year 400 thousand Ukrainians found a job in Poland

• Kirgiz citizens located in Russia complain of checks, bans and expulsions

• Remittances to Georgia decreased by 26%

• No one knows the exact number of immigrants in Ukraine

• Russia and Belarus will jointly tackle the problem of illegal migration

• US Government supports Tajikistan’s efforts to combat human trafficking

• In Kirgizia’s hospitals a risk of HIV infection

• In Belarus, a decrease in mortality from cardiovascular diseases

• Armenia introduces preferential IVF

World news

• The number of elderly in the world will exceed 2 billion by 2050

• Italy is the country with the oldest population in the EU

• Germany’s population reaches 81.2 million

• By 2080 Latvia’s population will shrink by 32%

• 11% of Israel’s population is over 65

• Demographic situation in Latvia has improved from very bad to bad

• Foreign investors in Latvia are most concerned about demographic indicators

• Fertility in Finland has dropped to critically low level

• In Germany live 800 thousand Germans from Kazakhstan

• Oldest resident of Japan dies aged 115 years

• UN General Assembly adopts program of global development for next 15 years

• World Bank raises poverty line to $1.9 a day

• Cameron confident that all countries, not just developed ones, must fight against poverty

• By year-end the number of jobs in Brazil will have decreased by one million

• In August the unemployment rate in Lithuania was above the EU average

• Sweden moving to a six-hour workday

• Germany approves changes in immigration legislation

• UAE tighten supervision over observance of rights of migrant workers

• Europe welcomes migrants ready to work

• UN expects 700 thousand refugees in Europe by the end of 2015

• European Union to set up reception centers for refugees on the borders of the Union

• EU may allocate Ђ1 billion to help migrants

• G7 and another 10 countries will allocate $1.8 billion to UN to help refugees

• Are a third of refugees in Germany lying about being Syrians?

• EU preparing to deport 400 thousand migrants

• Trump promises to deport all migrants from Syria if he becomes US president

• EU has agreed on operation against transporters of illegal immigrants in the Mediterranean

• Arabic has become the fastest growing language in the US

• Mortality from disasters in 2014 was almost 90 percent lower than the average over the last decade

• UN to provide $25 billion to combat maternal and child mortality

• In Denmark, people get cancer more often than in other European countries

• US Senate rejects bill to ban late-term abortions

• In South Korea, cheating is still not a reason for divorce

• Pope shows support for officials refusing to register gay marriages

The newspapers write about…

• “Svobodnaya Pressa” on the 2015 micro-census

• “MOSLENTA” on the micro-census in Moscow

• “BBC Future” on the Earth’s demographic future

• “The Epoch Times” on China’s demographic problems

• “Economy Times” on long-term trends of Russia’s demographic development

• “TheQuestion.ru” on the “demographic catastrophe” of the 1990s

• “Meduza” on the crisis and demographic problems in Russia

• “Moslenta” on population growth and the demographic situation in Moscow

• “Moslenta” on the problems of Moscow families

• “Le Monde” and “Moldavskie vedomosti” on the migrant crisis in Europe

• “RBK” on migration and the EU economy

• “The Financial times” on the doubtful utility of migration

• “Der Spiegel” on 4 billion euros for refugees in Germany

• “Project Syndicate” on the need for an asylum policy

• “Izvestiya” on “eternal” work licenses for migrants

• “Lenta.ru” on a proposal to simplify the language requirement for migrants

• “Vecherniy Bishkek” on the migration implication of Kirgizia’s joining the EAEC

• “Kommersant” on an “excess” of citizenship in the Crimea and residency requirements for compatriots

• “Novye Izvestiya” on the deportation of migrants from Russia

• “Die Presse” on emigration from Russia

• “Den” on the Ukrainian diaspora in Canada

• “RBK” on fertility and the housing market

• “Novosti Belarusi” on family capital in Belarus

• “Russkaya sluzhba BBC” on children born out of wedlock

• “Izvestiya” on disapproval in the government of the ban on abortion

• “doctor.59.ru” on contraception in Russia

• “Novosti Belarusi” on demographic problems and contraception in Belarus

• “Kommersant Dengi” on the marriage market in the crisis

• “RBK” on a “quality rating of death”

• “Vedomosti” on the problem of accidents in the workplace

• “Rossiyskaya gazeta” and “Pravoslavie i Mir” on the new age limit on the sale of alcohol

• “Novye Izvestiya” on medical tourism

• “Kommersant” on the Moscow City Duma’s opposition to a ban on deporting persons infected with HIV

• “Finmarket” and “Rossiyskaya gazeta” on the retirement age and pension indexation

• “Superjob.ru” on the attitude of Russians to raising the retirement age

• “Gazeta.ru” on national pride instead of pensions

• “Belarusian News” on the labor market in Belarus

• “RBK” on real and imaginary problems of higher education

• “Wired Magazine” on internet and the dying out of languages

• “The Washington Post” on the benefits of learning foreign languages

• “The Atlantic” on distinctive features of raising Japanese children

• “Izvestiya” on ISIS instead of xenophobia and nationalism

Read books and magazines

• The European Health Report 2015

• Demographic processes, the dynamics of labor resources and the risks to public health of the European part of Russia’s Arctic zone

• Situation with cancer care in Russia in 2014

• Women and men of Kazakhstan. 2010-2014

• Migration in Russia: Economic Aspects

• Through the pages of the journals “Gigiena i sanitariya” (“Hygiene and Sanitation”) and “Rossiyskiy vestnik perinatologii i pediatrii” (“Russian Bulletin of Perinatology and Pediatrics”)

• Contents of the “Journal of Marriage and Family”

Profession: researcher

• Territorial mobility in Stalin's Soviet Union: expulsions, deportations, incitement to migration and other forms of restrictions of movement. Scientific seminar of the Institute of Demography of HSE

• 90 years since the birth of Edward Arturovich Arab-Ogly

• o E.A. Arab-Ogly. Then it seemed that some things were working out

The reading room

• E.A. Arab-Ogly. Demographic and ecological forecasts