## 675-676

Current topic: Objective and perceived effects of immigration

• Who goes to developed countries

• The objective influence of migration: the labor market

• The fiscal effects of immigration

• Immigration and subjective well-being

• Conclusion

• Links to related topics

• Topics of previous issues

Eurasian demographic barometer

• The demographic situation in the CIS countries, 2014

• At the beginning of 2015 the CIS had a population of 282 million people

• The natural increase of the CIS population continues to grow - in 2014 it came to 1.15 million people, or 4.1 ‰

• In 2014, 4.3 million people were born in the CIS, 2.1% more than in 2013

• The number of deaths in the CIS countries increased by 0.3% compared with the year 2013

• The main causes of death are cardiovascular diseases, cancer and external causes

• The median age of the population is from 20 years in Tajikistan to 40 in Ukraine

Through the eyes of the analysts

• The global economic crisis and the migrant labor market

• The attitude to immigration and the subjective well-being of the host population

• Collection of data on labor migration in the course of sample surveys of the population

• Banning entry into the Russian Federation as a mechanism of regulating migration processes

Take care of women!

• The Pope authorizes the use of contraception in special cases

• Condoms can save lives

• In Russia sales of condoms have increased during the crisis

In the vastness of Russia

• Moscow’s population has reached 12.3 million people

• In Russia, life expectancy has increased to 71.22 years

• In 2015, average life expectancy in the capital was 77 years

• Russia expecting changes in mortality patterns

• The number of divorces has decreased in Moscow by 2% over the past five years

• Bashkiria postpones consideration of bill on early marriages

• A proposal to deprive the regions of the right to regulate the marriage age

• In Russian in 2015 only 662 children were adopted by foreigners

• New proposals have been prepared for simplifying the acquisition of Russian citizenship

• There will be no influx of refugees from the Middle East into Russia

• The adaptation of migrants may be transferred to the Federal Agency for Nationality Affairs

• In Moscow the Center for the Adaptation of Children of Refugees has had its premises taken away

• Moscow Migration Center has introduced monopoly on the medical examination of migrants

• Ministry of Health has developed a draft strategy for the fight against HIV

• Regions to be prohibited from imposing restrictions on the sale of alcohol

• Due to alcohol price increases, Russians have begun drinking less

• In traffic accidents in Russia drivers die more often, but it’s passengers who are more often injured

• Mortality from cancer in Russia has increased by 4.1%

• Before the end of the year Chechnya may prohibit abortion

• Skvortsova has prepared proposals to combat non-communicable diseases

• Disability from cardiovascular disease has decreased fourfold over last 5 years

• Over half of Russians were ill with the flu or a cold over the winter

• In Moscow, seasonal injuries down by 25%

• One in three Russians is considered practically healthy

• Employers may be required to give staff time off for state medical exams

• State Duma supports amendments to help protect incapacitated patients

• One in five private clinics in Russia is ready to provide free assistance

Eurasian panorama

• The population of Kazakhstan has exceeded 17.6 million

• The resident population of Kirgizia comes to 6,020,000

• Tajikistan’s population at the beginning of this year came to 8,547,400

• The proportion of men in the population of Belarus remains unchanged at 46.5%

• Ministry of Labor of Moldova insists on raising the retirement age

• Cumulative pension system covers more than 6 millions workers of Kazakhstan

• One in four Ukrainians is poor

• On the basis of 2015 results, poverty of Ukrainians will be total

• Real incomes in Azerbaijan have decreased by almost 50%

• Real incomes of the population of Moldova are decreasing

• Per capita income of well-to-do households in Tajikistan has increased by 30%

• Kazakhstan to allocate 100 billion tenge for job creation

• Last year Kirgizia created 10,500 jobs

• Millionaires have been denied Moldovan citizenship

• State Duma ratifies agreement between Russia and Kirgizia concerning the stays of their citizens

• 50,000 ethnic Kirgiz have returned to Kirgizia since 1991

• Over 20,000 Kazakhstanis have left to work in Russia

• 76,000 Kirgiz taken off FMS “black” list

• Migrant workers in Azerbaijan come from 118 countries

• Ukrainian refugees in Russia will be proposed to resettle in Siberia and the Far East

• Migrant workers give Ukraine more money than all international donors

• Remittances from migrant workers to Kirgizia have gone down by 28%

• Conflict in Ukraine has directly affected the lives of 580,000 children

• Global Fund allocates Belarus $5 million for the treatment of patients with tuberculosis and HIV

• In Georgia over 40% of the population smokes

• Ministry of Health of Abkhazia denounces new law banning abortion

• Kirgizia introducing new vaccination of children against pneumonia and meningitis

• In Kazakhstan, an increased number of people refusing vaccination

• Uzbekistan adopts “Year of the healthy mother and child” program

• Russia to allocate $1.43 million for the health of Tajikistan’s babies

• Georgian citizens who have died abroad will be repatriated free of charge

• US ready to assist Georgia in fight against domestic violence

World news

• Sweden records highest ever population growth

• A list has been made of the most populous cities in 2050

• Vienna recognized as world’s best city for quality of life

• Retirement age for women in Israel could be raised in January, 2017

• Lithuanians getting married later

• Greeks protest against pension reform

• Starvation threatens 50,000 people in Nigeria

• By 2050 robots will have replaced people in the workplace

• Merkel says that she wants to save the Schengen zone

• Medvedev calls EU’s migration policy a big mistake

• Is uncontrolled migration in Europe linked to terrorism?

• Finland’s migration policy will affect interethnic marriages

• The number of migrants in Chile has doubled over 10 years

• Portugal wants to take in 10,000 migrants to improve its demographic situation

• Most EU citizens support the idea of an equitable distribution of refugees

• Macedonia closes its borders to citizens of Afghanistan

• Austria has decided on daily quotas for migrants

• Germany needs a legislative basis for admission of legal refugees

• US court opposes ban on entry of refugees from Syria

• In Lithuania, signatures being collected for abolition of law on the admission of refugees

• Residents of Estonia are ready to sacrifice visa-free travel to Europe for the sake of limiting the flow of refugees

• UN urges Turkey to admit about 70,000 refugees

• Germans don’t see Ankara as a reliable partner on the issue of migration

• Thousands of Iraqis have withdrawn their applications for asylum in Finland

• Czech President proposes to create a European army in connection with the influx of refugees

• Lithuania will shorten the hours for selling alcohol

• Both a lack of and an excess of sleep are bad for the heart

• Doctors deny that Zika virus is involved in the appearance of microcephaly

• Air pollution causes the deaths of 5.5 million people a year

• US and Nigeria are both on the list of countries experiencing a shortage of fresh water

• Finnish Parliament finally allows gay couples to officially marry

• Sex at a mature age improves brain function

The newspapers write about…

• “RBK” and “Nakanune.RU” on the demographic situation in Russia

• “Forbes” on Russian mortality from alcohol

• “Izvestiya” and “Novye izvestiya” on the reduction of alcohol consumption in Russia

• “RIA AMI” on mortality from heart disease

• “Nezavisimaya gazeta” on vitamin deficiencies and the risk of cancer

• “Meditsinskaya gazeta” on the congress on reproductive medicine

• “The Guardian” on the problem of AIDS in Russia

• “Meditsinskaya gazeta” on people’s opinions on health care spending

• “Novosti Belarusi” on the salaries of doctors in Belarus

• “Vedomosti” on the differentiation of the pension system

• “Sovetskaya Belorussiya” on retirement and pension issues

• “Meditsinskaya gazeta” on bishops against abortion

• “GeekTimes” on the possibility of getting rich off divorce

• “Russkaya sluzhba BBC” on adultery

• “REGNUM” on transformable kindergartens and schools

• “RBK” on the problems of Russian education

• “Nezavisimaya Gazeta” on the values of the Russian population

• “BBC Russkaya sluzhba” on the morality police in Iran

• “Le Figaro” on the future of the Schengen zone

• “BBC Capital” on Australia’s immigration policy

• “Nezavisimaya gazeta” on imams for migrant workers

• “Kommersant-Vlast” on the children of foreigners deported from Russia

• “Novaya gazeta” on the social face of the “Russian world”

• “Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung” on the attitude of Russian Germans to refugees

• “Sveriges Radio” on making money off of refugees

• “Publico.es” on refugees and polygamy

• “Izvestiya”, “Velikaya epokha” and “Nakanune.RU” on attracting migrants to the Far East

• “RBK” on the situation in mono-towns

• “Vedomosti” on the prohibition of new construction in several cities in the Moscow region

Read books and magazines

• Social status and the standard of living of the Russian population. 2015

• Scattered by the wind

• Ethnic markets in Russia: a trading space and a meeting place

• The Population of Ukraine: Demographic components of human development

• Reporting on the progress in the global response to AIDS in 2015

• Through the pages of the magazines “Migratsiya XXI vek” (“Migration in the XXI Century”) and “Akusherstvo i ginekologiya” (“Obstetrics and Gynecology”)

• Contents of the “Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies”

Demographic Digest

• A Long-Standing Demographic East–West Divide in Germany

• Birth Order and Mortality: A Population-Based Cohort Study

• Meet the Robin Hood of Science

Profession: researcher

• Demographic forecasts and development scenarios of the pension system. Meeting of the Demographic section of the Central House of Science of the RAS

• 105 years since the birth of Viktor Vasilevich Petrov