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Current topic: The population of Russia against the background of the OECD and BRICS

• Problems of comparability and comparison

• Russia’s contribution to world population will shrink

• The demographic burden on the working age population of Russia will continue to grow, but aging will be slower than in many OECD countries

• The evolution of the age structure in the proportions of age groups

• Links to related topics

• Topics of previous issues

Russian demographic barometer

Migration in Russia: results of the first half of 2016

• Net migration in Russia increased in January-June 2016 by 1.3 times

• Russia’s greatest migration increase for January-June 2016 came from migration exchange with Ukraine - 69 thousand people

• The volume of Russia’s internal migration continues to grow, increasing in the first half of 2016 by 1%

• The population of 83 out of 85 regions increased due to migration exchange with CIS countries, that of 15 regions to exchange with other regions

• About a quarter of those replenishing Russia’s population through migration in 2015 were people aged 25 to 34

• The number of foreign nationals with a valid permit to work in Russia has decreased to 174,000 people, those with a patent - to 1.487 million

Through the eyes of the analysts

• The population explosion, the aging population and labor-saving technologies: their interaction in the 21^st century

• Poverty and inequality in the BRICS countries: Russian specificity

• The cancellation of China’s one-child policy

• On pressing problems of improving work in statistics

• The middle class of BRICS countries as a driving force of new global economic growth

Take care of women!

• Has the problem of maternal mortality been solved in rich countries?

In the vastness of Russia

• In three years will average life expectancy in Russia reach 75 years?

• The crisis not hindering fertility growth in Russia

• The authorities are preparing proposals to stimulate fertility in Russia

• Golodets supports the idea of encouraging women who give birth to two children before the age of 30

• Infant mortality in Russia has reached a historic low

• Ministry of Health names the region with the lowest infant mortality rate

• Sevastopol’s population growing only thanks to migrants

• The number of marriages in Moscow has fallen by 10%

• Cabinet proposes to carry out census using the Internet

• Authorities not yet planning to raise retirement age in Russia

• Russian economy is sliding into a demographic hole

• Medvedev confident of possibility of carrying out President’s “May decrees”

• Government approves law on single payment to pensioners

• Ministry of Finance proposes not to index pensions of working pensioners in 2017-2019

• 30% of pensioners are dissatisfied with government’s decision on lump-sum payment instead of indexation

• Government is discussing issue of indexation of maternity capital

• Nabiullina says labor market putting no pressure on economy

• Russia may limit medical aid to “moochers”

• Ministry of Health proposes to make registration of persons with HIV mandatory

• In 2016 the level of mortality from tuberculosis among prisoners was halved

• Medical institutions in the first half of 2016 reduced purchases of medicines

• In Moscow will appear a network of medical centers to help stroke victims

• Proposal in Russian Orthodox Church to make deductions from doctors’ salaries for conducting abortions

• In Russia, the number of female prisoners has decreased by 10% over the year

• Ministry of Communications will create site concerning the country’s most dangerous roads

World news

• China’s population will have shrunk by 1.5-2 times by the end of the century

• Beijing preparing for sharp increase in the number of women in childbirth

• Population of Ukraine continues to decline

• Czech Republic’s population has grown thanks to migrants from Slovakia, Ukraine and Romania

• In the Baltic countries population continues to decline

• Latvia’s main goal: three million inhabitants by 2050

• Ukrainian government intends to assess the country’s real demographic situation

• Mortality of working-age men in Belarus is 3-4.5 times higher than in the EU

• Finns concerned about fertility decline for the fifth consecutive year

• Retirement age in Estonia may be raised to 70

• For 100 euros you can become an “electronic citizen” of Estonia

• Juncker announces idea to create information system for those entering the EU

• New Zealand sets immigration record

• Record number of refugees in the OECD countries

• Most Germans do not approve of government migrant policy

• Merkel plans to abandon “We can do it” slogan

• Migration can help Germany, but is it irrelevant for other countries?

• France building a wall against migrants on the border with the UK

• Japan to allot additional $2.8 billion to help solve world’s migration crisis

• European Union allots Ђ115 million to Greece to address migration issue

• Bulgaria asks EU for $180 million to address migration issue

• George Soros has promised to invest $500 million in start-ups of refugees

• Israel may reconsider migration policies for attracting qualified professionals

• In Kazakhstan work about 13,000 labor migrants from the EAEC

• Almost 20% of Kirgiz citizens working abroad

• About 350 labor migrants from Kirgizia

• each year die outside of the country

• In Germany, over 350 migrant children under 14 years of age are married

• Mortality of women during childbirth has decreased globally by 44% over last 25 years

• In Kirgizia, increasing mortality from malignant neoplasms

• The most expensive country to give birth in is the USA

• Scientists have determined the safe term of pregnancy for giving birth to twins

• Each year the global economy loses $5.1 trillion due to premature deaths from air pollution

• China’s hospitals are overburdened

• Google to block data in India on how to determine the sex of a child

• 40% of single Japanese are virgins

• Nearly a fifth of Finnish nurses may be replaced by robots

• Australia to hold referendum on legalization of gay marriage

• Is one in five senior managers a psychopath?

The newspapers write about…

• “TASS” on the demographic situation in Russia

• “Life” on Russia’s demographic problems

• “RBK” on the crisis and fertility

• “Kompaniya” on stimulating fertility

• “Rossiyskaya gazeta” on preferential mortgages for families with children

• “Rossiyskaya gazeta” on children’s rooms in universities

• “Vedomosti” on vacation affairs and increasing fertility

• “Lenta.ru” on Russia’s reproductive potential

• “Izvestiya” on lowering the number of teenage abortions

• “Kommersant-Saratov” and “Metro” on collecting signatures for the removal of abortion from the Mandatory Medical Insurance system

• “Obozrevatel.com” on the second sexual revolution

• “Lenta.ru” on voluntary childlessness

• “Umj.com.ua” on WHO plan to combat non-communicable diseases

• “Vesti.RU” on maternal mortality

• “Kommersant” on the HIV-dissident movement

• “Kommersant” on monitoring persons with HIV

• “Polit.ru” on paid medical care for the unemployed

• “Life” on electronic cigarettes

• “Telegraf” on Europe’s demographic problems

• “Nezavisimaya gazeta” on the migration crisis

• “Project Syndicate” on the refugee problem

• “Deutsche Welle” on repatriating refugees from Germany

• “NRK” on a fence on the Russian-Norwegian border

• “Hegestorhaug.blogg” on the polygamy problem in Norway

• “Nezavisimaya gazeta” on citizenship for Ukrainian emigrants

• “24.kg” on remittances from Kirgiz migrants

• “Kommersant” on exporting Russian education

• “Vladnews.ru” on the free hectare and the demographic problems of the Far East

• “Izvestiya” on the project for “colonizing” Siberia and the Far East

• “REGNUM” on Priority Development Areas

• “Meditsinskaya Gazeta” on developing aviation ambulances

• “Ekho Moskvy” on the deportation of Soviet Germans

• “Russkaya Sluzhba BBC” on the problem of providing food in the future

• “Novaya Gazeta” on amendments to the law “On the National Population Census”

• “Kommersant” on feminism and patriarchy

• “Life” on telegony and chimeras

• “The Washington Post” on the DNA base in Kuwait

• “Telegraf” on “giving birth without women”

• “The New York Times” on sugar vs. fat

Read books and magazines

• The Global Report on Migration 2015

• Romania. Health Systems in Transition

• Youth of Azerbaijan 2016

• Health care in the Republic of Tajikistan

• Key indicators of maternal and child health, activities of the child protection and obstetrics service in the Russian Federation

• Through the pages of the journals “Demograficheskoye obozreniye” (“Demographic Review”) and “Akusherstvo i ginekologiya” (“Obstetrics and Gynecology”)

• Contents of the “Journal of Marriage and Family”

Demographic digest

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• Does corruption promote emigration? An empirical examination

• Differences in Attitudes towards Immigration between Australia and Germany: The Role of Immigration Policy

• Bonus: Demographic history in pictures

Profession: researcher

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