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Current topic: The demographic footprint of war

• Introduction: the Population Census of 1939

• The mortal path of an immortal regiment

• Traces of war in the age pyramid

• Gender asymmetry

• War and the family

• War and fertility

• War and natural population increase

• Waves of the dependency ratio

• Links to related topics

• Topics of previous issues

World demographic barometer

• Casualties in armed conflicts, 1946-2015 years

• Since the end of World War II more than 10.5 million people have been killed in state-based armed conflicts

• The bloodiness of armed conflicts declined up until 2011

• WHO estimates that in 2015 152,000 people were killed in armed conflicts

• The 2016 Global Peace Index shows that the world has become less safe

Through the eyes of the analysts

• The reduction of infant mortality in Russia in 1940-1958

• From abortion Thermidor to legislative liberalism: policy on marriage and family relations as a mirror of the history of the USSR

• The dynamics of Moscow’s population size over the last 140 years

Take care of women!

• High-level meeting of the UN General Assembly on the fight against AIDS

• Advances in the prevention of the vertical transmission of HIV

• Russia is considering the possibility of lifting the ban on the entry of HIV-positive foreigners

In the vastness of Russia

• Mortality in Russia down 5% over past year

• In 2015 natural population increase in Moscow was over 20,400 persons

• Presidential aide names alternative to increasing the retirement age

• Ulyukayev proposes to make dismissal procedures easier and to raise the retirement age

• Ministry of Labor proposes to increase the expected period of funded pension payout

• Government has no plans to unfreeze the funded pension

• Most Russians would like to retire before the age of 55

• The creation of kindergartens attached to universities is part of demographic policy

• Pskov region called the poorest region of Russia in terms of the well-being of families with children

• Is the generation of twentysomethings ready to work until they die?

• Moscow cemeteries to be checked for gatherings of migrants

• Migrants will have to fill out voluntary health insurance policy in a new format

• The number of slaves in Russia calculated to be over 1 million

• Ministry of Health intends to restrict access to tobacco to those born after 2015

• Ministry of Health does not want the return of tobacco and alcohol stalls

• 25% of alcohol in Russia is sold illegally

• Narcologists will begin making free house visits to Muscovites

• Early neonatal mortality in Moscow has fallen by almost a quarter

• Impossible to completely avoid cases of Zika virus coming into Russia

• Mizulina does not rule out lowering the age of criminal liability

• Russian Orthodox Church does not believe that 80% of Russians are Orthodox

Eurasian panorama

• The population of Moldova is 3,553,100 people

• Ukraine will have to raise the retirement age, but not now

• Kirgiz Parliament does not support ban on marriage with minors

• Kirgiz government has promised that all children will receive pre-school education

• In Belarus, by the year 2020 no more than 15% of orphans will be in boarding schools

• Tajikistan will starting counting the poor in a new way

• The size of child allowances in Kirgizia is 4 times lower than the international standard

• Parents in Moldova will be able to choose the form of maternity leave benefits

• Pensions of Moldovan officials are twice the national average

• Tbilisi gets into list of world’s “100 sustainable cities”

• Women make up 31.3% of the unemployed in Belarus

• Citizens of Kirgizia will have their stay in Kazakhstan prolonged without registration

• List of Kirgiz migrants deported from Russia will be reconsidered

• Tajik scientists warn of a mass return of migrant workers

• Israel will employ 15,000 construction workers from Ukraine

• The flow of forced migrants from the southeast of Ukraine to Belarus has decreased

• Has the volume of remittances from migrant workers to Moldova bottomed out?

• In Moldova, internal migration is increasing

• In Tajikistan live over 54,000 slaves

• Infant mortality remains a problem in Georgia

• Infant mortality has gone down in Kirgizia

• In Kazakhstan, very high rates of teenage pregnancy

• Belarus is studying the Russian experience in the use of tablets for the census

World news

• In Eastern Europe, a rapidly shrinking population

• During 2015 the population of Latvia decreased by 17,000 people

• By 2030 one in four inhabitants of China will be a pensioner

• For the first time in a decade mortality has risen in the US

• Erdogan speaks out against birth control in Turkey

• For the first time in 250 years there are more men than women in Europe

• The number of men in Sweden has exceeded the number of women for the first time since 1749

• World facing economic disaster due to rapid aging of the population

• One third of Latvia’s population is on the brink of poverty

• Nearly 80% of Swiss oppose unconditional basic income

• EU will extend to Ukraine and Georgia the mechanism of turning down a visa-free regime

• In Berlin, a fear of a rise in crime due to the abolition of visas

• Libya, unlike Turkey, will not take back its migrants

• In Poland, no work for migrants

• Over 205,000 migrants have arrived in Europe by sea since the start of the year

• Germany registers growth in the number of Chechen refugees

• Over 2,500 migrants have drowned in the Mediterranean since the start of the year

• Muslim schoolchildren in Switzerland have been forced to shake hands with female teachers

• Ban Ki-moon proposes plan to fight HIV/AIDS up to the year 2030

• Alcohol consumption has decreased everywhere in the world except the US

• Estonia is the EU leader in mortality from drug overdose

• Romania is the EU leader in preventable deaths

• 2008 crisis affected cancer mortality

• Global teenage mortality from cancer is high

• South Carolina imposes ban on late-term abortions

• The number of teenage pregnancies in the United States is down by 40%

• The Netherlands to allow growing human embryos for research

• In Central China, additional time off work introduced for taking care of ill parents

• The most polluted air is in the cities of Nigeria

• In Australia, robots will be hired to protect pastures

The newspapers write about…

• “Kommersant” on the implementation of the second stage of demographic policy

• “Meditsinskaya gazeta” on the growth of life expectancy

• “Nezavisimaya Gazeta” on the difference in life expectancy between men and women

• “Nezavisimaya Gazeta” on alcohol consumption and life expectancy

• “Kommersant FM” on the growth in the number of non-drinkers

• “Obozrevatel.com” on sobriety territories in the Arctic

• “Novye Izvestiya” on the problems of fighting AIDS

• “Nezavisimaya Gazeta” on the impending victory over AIDS

• “Novaya Gazeta” and “Kommersant” on how the Moscow Duma views protection against HIV

• “Meditsinskaya Gazeta” on abortions and their consequences

• “Parlamentskaya Gazeta” and “Novye Izvestiya” on the impending ban on baby boxes

• “Izvestiya” on “family life lessons”

• “Velikaya Epokha” on China’s demographic problems

• “RBK” on the problems of raising the retirement age

• “Nezavisimaya Gazeta” on problems with indexing pensions

• “Kommersant” on an alternative to pensions

• “Radio Svoboda” on the attitude of Russians to raising the retirement age

• “Nezavisimaya Gazeta” on Russian pensions for Israelis

• “Novosti Belarusi” on a possible two-time increase in the retirement age in Belarus

• “Nezavisimaya Gazeta” on the UN report on migration

• “Kommersant” on common rules for testing migrants

• “ASIA-Plus” on the marriages of Tajiks in Russia

• “Paruskg.info” on illegal Turkmen migrants in Turkey

• “Slon.ru” on North Korean workers in the EU

• “Apostrof” on emigration from Ukraine

• “Paruskg.info” on the outflow of Russians from Kazakhstan

• “Neue Zuercher Zeitung” on the return of Germans to Germany

• “Berlingske” on aid for refugees and…smugglers

• “The Guardian” on Muslim refugees converting to Christianity

• “Vedomosti” on the mobility of Russian scientists and the brain drain

• “RBK” on the readiness of top managers to leave Russia

• “Kommersant Vlast” on teleworking

• “EAOmedia” and “Meduza” on “stopping the outflow of the population” from the Far East

• “Kommersant” on Moscow’s national policy strategy

• “Novaya Gazeta” on Soviet prisoners of war

• “RBK” on acts of civil status registered abroad

• “Kommersant” on a “better life index”

• “LIFE” on the Swiss refusal of an unconditional basic income

• “RBK” on the demographic factor in the real estate market

• “Kommersant” on the lowering of Moscow’s position in the ranking of global cities

• “Ogonyok” on human embryos for experiments

• “BBC Future” on the ethics of using dead sperm

Read books and magazines

• The east in the East, in Russia and in the West: cross-border migration and diaspora

• Human development in Ukraine. Modernization of social policy: a regional perspective

• Global Tuberculosis Report 2015

• The demographic situation in Georgia

• Diaspora: a partner in the development of Tajikistan

• Through the pages of the journals “Problemy sotsialnoy gigieny, zdravookhraneniya i istorii meditsiny” (“Problems of Social Hygiene, Health and the History of Medicine”) and “Aktualnye problemy Evropy” (“Current problems of Europe”). Contents of the journal “Population”

Demographic digest

• Inequality and crime revisited: effects of local inequality and economic segregation on crime

• Men’s revealed preferences regarding women’s ages: evidence from prostitution

• Bonus: In science there are no unchallengeable authorities

Profession: researcher

• What do we know about the impact of social policies on fertility? Scientific seminar of the Institute of Demography of HSE

• On the 75^th birthday of Jacques Vallin

• Happy 45^th birthday to Nikita Vladimirovich Mkrtchyan