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Current topic: The population of centers and remote places in Russia, Ukraine and Belarus

• Why study the polarization of space and settlement

• Distinctive features of the comparison of small territories

• Why three countries were compared

• A strengthening of center-periphery contrasts

• The dynamics of urban populations depend on their size

• The rural population is shrinking everywhere

• Conclusion

• Links to related topics

• Topics of previous issues

World Demographic Barometer

Urban and rural population of the world, 2016

• 31 October: World Cities Day

• By UN estimates, in 2016 4 billion people, or 54.5% of the world’s population, lived in urban settlements

• In urban settlements live 46% of children under age 15, 57% of the population between 25 and 79, and 63% of the population 80 and over

• One in five people on Earth live in cities of a million people or more

Through the eyes of the analysts

• Centers and peripheries in the Baltic countries and regions of northwest Russia: Population dynamics in the 2000s

• Depopulation processes in the Pskov region in the context of the polarization of the population of northwestern Russia

• Distinctive features of migratory processes in the city of Kiev and the metropolitan area

• Ethnodemographic transformation in the center-periphery structure of the Rostov region (post-Soviet trends)

• George Soros on how to address the problem of refugees in the European Union

Q&A

• 26 September: World Contraception Day

• The young: family and financial situation

• The young: alternatives of place and time

• The crisis and the expectation of layoffs

In the vastness of Russia

• Russia has become one of the leaders in the growth rates of life expectancy

• In Russia over the last 8 months fertility has exceeded mortality

• Topilin announces reduction in the number of first births

• In 2015, mortality increased in one out of three Russian regions

• Within the next 10 years a third of the Russian population will have reached retirement age

• Central Bank explains essence of new conception of the pension savings of Russians

• Kudrin predicts failure of the voluntary funded pension

• The poor in Russia now include working people too

• Ministry of Labor supports “parasite tax”

• Kudrin proposes to postpone execution of the May presidential decrees

• Ministry of Labor announces it will not index maternity capital in 2017

• Ministry of Justice proposes ban on 16-year-olds getting married with parental consent

• In Russia there is no unemployment

• Over 1% of Moscow’s tax revenues come from selling work licenses to migrants

• The number of administrative violations in the migration sphere in Russia has been reduced by 25%

• In last two years Russia’s FMS has removed 54,000 Kirgiz citizens from “blacklist”

• Ministry of Health is against mandatory registration of people with HIV

• Ministry of Health has opposed lowering minimum prices for vodka

• Rosturism supports lifting ban on sale of alcohol in sanatoriums

• Ministry of Health and Rosstat have calculated the number of abortions in Russia in 2015

• Abortion ban would not improve the demographic situation in the Russian Federation

• Removing abortion from Compulsory Health Insurance won’t help budget

• No concrete decisions concerning abortion ban in Russia have been made

• Working group of Ministry of Health will decide on abortion issue before the end of the year

• Golodets supports systematic work on IVF

• Russia facing flu epidemic after winter holidays

• Russia in 119^th place in terms of health

• List of diseases treated at the expense of the state may be extended

• A number of Russian regions are actively implementing telemedicine

• Russian President calls for fight against “rudeness” on the road

World news

• Fertility level in Israel is highest among OECD countries

• In Germany, an increasing number of births

• In Latvia, the average age of women having their first child is 27 years

• Chinese civil servants struggling with demographic crisis

• Almost one in five people in Belarus is over 60 years of age

• Kazakhstan is on the verge of an aging population

• By 2020 the number of elderly citizens of China will reach 240 million

• UK registers record number of 100-year-olds

• Pension payouts in Belarus could exceed 16% of GDP by the year 2050

• Ukraine is doomed to raise the retirement age

• IMF tells of Ukraine’s commitments to carrying out pension reform

• In referendum, Swiss vote against increasing pensions

• EU has doubled aid to Belarus

• In last 10 years the number of pupils in Latvian schools has decreased by 23%

• Over 97% of Uzbekistan’s population feels negatively about common-law marriage

• Saudi women have asked to abolish men’s guardianship over them

• Women will work on average four years longer than men

• Employment rate of women in Japan is one of world’s lowest

• Unemployment and an aging population worry Finns more than refugees

• Every hour 4-5 people leave Lithuania

• The number of internally displaced persons in Ukraine has stabilized

• Canada plans to speed up deportation of Chinese citizens

• The aim of the EU is to defeat illegal migration

• Hungary proposes to deport all illegal migrants from the EU

• Hungary’s borders are open for wealthy migrants

• Hollande calls on Calais authorities to demolish spontaneous migrant camp

• Portuguese authorities plan to double the number of refugees taken in

• Turkey to build a 900-mile wall on border with Syria

• EU to start paying refugees in Turkey 30 euros a month

• Are British authorities using migrants from EU as a bargaining chip?

• In Spain, migrants from Latin America earn little, but still send money home

• In UK, an adult has been cured of HIV for the first time

• Kiev bans nighttime sale of alcohol

• In Moldova, increasing morbidity and mortality from cardiovascular disease

• In more than 20 cities around the world there have been marches against Ireland’s strict abortion laws

• Zika virus is more dangerous than scientists thought

• Facebook founder decides to save people from all diseases

• Scientists report new method for conceiving child “from three parents”

• In Japan, a robot has been created to entertain people living alone

The newspapers write about…

• “Lenta.ru” on global demographic challenges and Russia

• “Nezavisimaya Gazeta” on China’s demographic policy turnaround

• “Yuga.ru” on fertility incentives

• “Moskovskiy Komsomolets” on people who marry young and who have many children

• “Slate.fr” on forced motherhood

• “Novye Izvestiya” on baby boxes

• “Kommersant” on anonymous motherhood

• “Lenta.ru”, “Kommersant”, “RBK”, Polit.ru” and “VFM” on a possible abortion ban

• “Meduza” and “Kommersant” on Poland’s experience with an abortion ban and the current protests

• “Wonderzine” on the results of banning abortion in different countries

• “RIA Novosti” on contraception

• “Nezavisimaya Gazeta” on the reproductive health of teenagers

• “Vedomosti” on spending on education, medicine and mass sports

• “Kommersant”, “Vedomosti” and “LIFE” on Russia’s last place in public health rankings

• “Yle” on the Finnish method of treating alcoholism

• “Gazeta.ru” on Russia’s migration policy

• “Izvestiya” and “RBK” on the migration crisis in the EU

• “Kommersant” on the refugee problem in Europe

• “The Nation” on the attitude to refugees in Denmark and Sweden

• “Izvestiya” on EU citizens in London after the Brexit

• “Liberation” on citizenship

• “Life” on the problems of migrants in Russia

• “BBC, Russkaya Sluzhba” and “Iod” on inter-regional youth migration

• “Vedomosti” on emigration from Russia

• “Kommersant-Dengi” on excess housing in the Moscow Region

• “Nezavisimaya Gazeta” on a ranking of the high cost of rental apartments

• “Zerkalo Nedeli” on inequality in Ukraine

• “RIA Novosti” on Senior Citizens’ Day

• “N+1” and “Meduza” on the maximal human lifespan

• “Slate.fr” on business fighting loneliness

• “Pravoslavie i Mir” on euthanasia

• “REGNUM” on the 1921 famine

Read books and magazines

• The effectiveness of Russia’s demographic policy

• Recruiting Immigrant Workers: Europe 2016

• Population of Azerbaijan 2016

• The population of Ukraine for the year 2014

• Public health successes and missed opportunities

• Through the pages of the journals “Sotsialnye aspekty zdorovya naseleniya” (“Social aspects of public health”) and “Vestnik MGU. Seriya 18. Sotsiologiya i politologiya” (“Proceedings of MSU. Series 18. Sociology and Political Science”)

• Contents of the journal “Population and Development Review”

Demographic Digest

• How far do internal migrants really move? Demonstrating a new method for the estimation of intra-zonal distance

• Does second-home ownership trigger migration in later life?

• Internal migration and development: Comparing migration intensities around the world

Profession: researcher

• Happy 65^th birthday to Yevgeniy Lvovich Soroko

• A.G. Volkov, E.L. Soroko. A simulation model of the demographic development of the family

• 85 years since the birth of Andrei Andreyevich Rakov