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Current topic: Suicide in Russia

• Suicide in the international classification of causes of death

• Recording suicide mortality in Russia

• Mortality from suicide in Russia and in the world

• Suicides by sex and age

• The fewest suicides are in winter

• Suicide: a preventable cause of death

• Links to related topics

• Topics of previous issues

European demographic barometer

Mortality from external causes in the EU-28

• In 2013, 64% of deaths in the EU-28 were due to diseases of the circulatory system and neoplasms, 4.6% to external causes

• Among those dying between the ages of 20-24, the proportion of deaths from external causes is more than 60%

• Mortality from external causes of death varies more than fourfold among countries in the EU-28

• One in four deaths from external causes is due to suicide

• Mortality due to suicide varies more than sevenfold among EU-28 countries

Through the eyes of the analysts

• Territorial features of suicide prevalence in the Russian Federation

• Alcohol and suicide in Russia, Ukraine and Belarus: a comparative analysis of trends

• Suicide in the polar regions

Take care of women!

• America’s Planned Parenthood celebrates 100^th anniversary

• UN sounds alarm: Asia lacks millions of women

In the vastness of Russia

• Natural population increase grew by 2.6 times over the first 9 months compared to the previous year

• Russia and Japan will work together to increase the life expectancy of Russians

• Russian citizens on average would like to live to 81.3 years

• Putin does not rule out new fertility support program

• Government may in the future return to the issue of indexation of the maternity capital

• Ministry of Labour will simplify procedure for obtaining maternity capital funds for children with disabilities

• State Duma has been advised to reject draft law on toughening divorce proceedings

• Raising the retirement age in Russia is inevitable

• Standard of living in Russia is unlikely to recover even by 2020

• In ranking of prosperous countries, Russia is in 95^th place

• In 2019, 20.5 million Russians will be living below the poverty line

• Ministry of Labor opposes introduction of poverty relief in Russia

• State Duma to set up working group to bring the minimum wage up to the subsistence minimum

• Putin orders 5000-ruble payout to all pensioners, without exception

• Government not discussing issue of increasing salaries of officials

• Golodets tells of possible tax holidays for the self-employed

• Russian universities to cut admissions of economics and management students in 2017

• Ministry of Labor to increase the proportion of workers among the disabled to 50%

• List of regions where Russians would like to live does not include the Far East

• Russia to return visa-free regime for all non-citizens of Latvia and Estonia

• Moskalkova asks government for money to deport migrants

• Russians drinking less

• Decline in alcohol sales attributed to 1990s demographic crisis

• Financing of fight against HIV will increase by 13 billion rubles

• In Russia, the number of drug addicts may be 4.5 million people

• Mortality indicators in Russia in 2016 exceed forecasts

• 55 children have died in car accidents this year

• Every day 365 Russians become diabetics

• Incidence of flu in Russia has decreased by 10 times since 2006

• Ministry of Health has set new time standards for receiving patients

• Salaries of doctors will be raised by increasing subventions to CHI funds

• In 2016 prices for essential drugs increased by 0.5%

• Electronic medical sick-leave certificates to appear in Russia

• “Zemsky Doctor” program has been 63% carried out this year

• United Russia proposes to abolish criminal penalties for family fights

World news

• Ukraine lags 10-12 years behind developed countries in life expectancy

• Estonia holds first ever “contactless” population and housing census

• Estonians will be able to choose when to retire

• The number of wealthy people in China is growing

• Nearly 8% of working Europeans are on the verge of poverty

• Health, migration and employment are priority issues in the first weeks of Trump presidency

• “They get Latvian citizenship in order to leave the country”

• EU proposes to charge citizens of “visa-free” countries Ђ5 to enter Schengen zone

• Latvia to build a fence on border with Belarus for protection from migrants

• Trump confirms his intention to build a wall on the US-Mexico border

• Over four thousand migrants have died in the Mediterranean Sea since the beginning of the year

• UN opens new camp for refugees from Mosul

• Australia plans to resettle refugees in third countries

• Hungarian Parliament has not passed bill to ban taking in refugees

• The main cause of death for women in the 21^st century will become cancer

• Graphic warnings on cigarette packs reduce mortality from smoking

• More than 420 million people in the world suffer from diabetes

• One in ten Finns over 40 suffers from diabetes

• Three million children in the world may die from infections next year

• US teens having fewer babies

• In the US, medical abortions have begun being carried out “online”

• Poland may begin paying women not to abort

• WHO tells of main health problem of the 21^st century

• India moves ahead of China in level of mortality due to air pollution

• In developed countries, the mortality rate from terrorism has grown by 650%

• Trump says he rejects abortion, but is not against gay marriage

• Canada officially introduces concept of an “other” sex

The newspapers write about…

• “Gazeta.ru” on non-communicable diseases

• “Novaya Gazeta” on child suicide

• “RBK” on medical care for mothers and newborns

• “Russkaya sluzhba “Golos Ameriki”” on the problem of AIDS in Russia

• “Kommersant” and “Rosbalt” on regional differentiation of the spread of HIV

• “Gazeta.ru” on anti-alcohol policy

• “Moskovskiy Komsomolets” on alcohol consumption in the North

• “Nezavisimaya Gazeta” on freezing the maternity capital

• “Ogonyok”, “Ekho Moskvy”, Kommersant” “Rosbalt” and “Lenta.ru” on the Russian nation

• “Ekho Moskvy” on nation building, migration and abortion

• “Lenta.ru” on US elections and minorities

• “Slon.ru” on whether emigration threatens America

• “RBK” on business emigration from Russia

• “Nezavisimaya Gazeta” on refugees and poverty

• “Novaya Gazeta” on labor migration from Ukraine to Russia and restrictions for money transfers

• “Novosti Belarusi” on the problems of migration from Belarus

• “Komsomolskaya Pravda Moldova” on the population of Moldova

• “Nezavisimaya Gazeta” on taxes of rotation workers

• “Novye Izvestiya” on extra work

• “Novye Izvestiya” on migrants and yard-keepers

• “RBK” on taxing nannies and tutors

• “Kommersant Dengi” on family business

• “Kommersant-Dengi” on bride-price norms

• “Nautilus” on the problems of settling Mars

• “National Geographic” on the paradox of the time of birth of twins

Read books and magazines

• Suicide in Russia and Europe

• Suicide. An unnecessary death

• European country profiles and the global status report on road safety 2015

• The EU in the World

• Population and Demographic Processes 2015

• Through the pages of the journals “Suitsidologiya” (“Suicidology”) and “Tsentralnaya Azia i Kavkaz” (“Central Asia and the Caucasus”)

• Contents of the journal “Archives of Suicide Research”

Demographic Digest

• The Family Gap in Pay: New Evidence for 1967 to 2013

• Does marriage affect men’s labor market outcomes? A European perspective

• BONUS: About America, but not about the elections

Profession: researcher

• Demographic results of 2015; On the results of the federal statistical monitoring “Socio-demographic survey (micro-census of the population) 2015”. Meeting of the Demographic section of the Central House of Scientists of the RAS

• On the results of the federal statistical monitoring “Socio-demographic survey (micro-census of the population) 2015”. Meeting of the Statistics section of the Central House of Scientists of the RAS

• Fertility trends in Russia and developed countries. Meeting of the Statistics Section of the Central House of Scientists of the RAS

• The current situation and demographic prospects for Moldova. Scientific seminar of the Institute of Demography of HSE