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Current topic: The abortion ban: refresh your memory

• A triple anniversary

• The path to banning abortion in the USSR

• Have abortions ceased?

• Has fertility increased?

• An abortion ban and maternal mortality

• An abortion ban and infanticide

• To ban or not to ban?

• Links to related topics

• Topics of previous issues

World demographic barometer

Family planning: needs and policies

• The need for family planning is growing: in 1970 it was had by 57% of married women aged 15-49, in 2016 - by 76%

• With the help of modern contraception, 77% of women satisfy their need for family planning

• The number of countries in which the state directly supports family planning increased in 2015 to 166

• Worldwide, the trend is towards the liberalization of abortions

• Restrictive policies on abortion are accompanied by a high number of unsafe abortions and higher maternal mortality

Through the eyes of the analysts

• A sociological portrait of infanticide in the United States at the turn of the 21^st century: victims and perpetrators

• Studying the opinions of women’s views on the causes of abortion

• Socio-economic factors of children’s health in Russia

• Russians’ spending on drugs: what has changed during the crisis?

Event

• Demographic themes in the President’s Address to the Russian Federal Assembly

Q&A

• For health – get in line

• Single-parent families. Are single parents entitled to benefits?

• Migrants in Russia: the effects of their presence

• Physical abuse in the family

In the vastness of Russia

• Since the beginning of the year the number of inhabitants in Russia has increased by 214,600

• Patriarch Kirill admits impossibility of banning abortion in Russia

• Mortality in Russia decreased by 2.3% from January through October

• Net migration grew by 16.2% over first 9 months

• The population decrease of the Far East due to migration is growing

• A new demographic concept for the Far Eastern Federal District

• The population of St. Petersburg steadily growing due to migration

• Russia’s main demographic problem is high mortality

• No demographic basis for raising the retirement age

• Authorities discussing raising the retirement age starting in 2019

• State Duma approves conducting census with the help of internet

• Putin announces shortfall in army recruitment

• Golodets tells of measures to reduce poverty level in 2017

• Incomes of pensioners will not fall below subsistence level

• Social Insurance Fund revenues may exceed expenditures after 2024

• Maternity leave benefits will not be extended from 1.5 to 3 years

• Golodets names the worst regions for family adoption of orphans

• Analysts have reported a migration of dollar millionaires from Russia

• Should gifted children stay in the regions?

• Multifunctional Centers will begin issuing passports of Russian citizens starting in 2017

• Putin demands that issuing of Russian passports to citizens of the former USSR be simplified

• Russian Government has reduced quota for temporary residence of foreigners

• Golodets says Russia is moving towards a reduction of labor migration

• Russia lowering quotas for foreign workers arriving on a visa

• Over 80% of Russians think it’s more profitable for employers to hire migrants

• Will fingerprinting foreigners have negative impact on tourist flow?

• Kirgiz migrant workers in Russia will not be fined for lack of medical insurance

• Popova tells about HIV incidence growth rate in 2016

• In Russia, more than a million reported cases of HIV

• More than 98% of children born to mothers with HIV do not inherit the virus

• In Russian medical institutions, cases of HIV appearing again

• Public Chamber names the most heavily drinking and soberest regions of Russia

• Mortality from cardiovascular disease in Russia has decreased over last 5 years

• Compensation for the death of airline passengers may be increased to 9 million rubles

• Russia has raised the age limit for vaccination against measles

• Golodets calls for solving the problem of discrimination against older people in medicine

• Draft law on telemedicine may be passed before mid-2017

• Russia will produce antiretroviral drugs

• Moscow authorities support increased penalties for attacks on doctors

World news

• Large-scale study of family relations, nuptiality and fertility will be conducted in Belarus in 2017

• The rich live 10 years longer than the poor

• Starting January 1, 2018 Georgia will begin to implement pension reform

• Vice-Prime Minister of Ukraine declares raising of retirement age impossible

• Poland lowers retirement age

• Ukrainian standard of living has declined over last three years

• Japan’s best university is ready to pay for the accommodation of coeds in order to increase the proportion of women enrolled

• EU Home Affairs Council approves system for authorizing entry into the union

• The flow of migrants from Ukraine has increased by 20% in the last two years

• A record number of migrants arrived in Italy in 2016

• New York mayor refuses to help Trump in migrant deportation

• Mexico launches hotline to help migrant workers in US

• Merkel calls on Turkey to comply with “immigration deal”

• Slovakia proposes principle of “effective solidarity” in solving migration issues

• More than 4,600 migrants died in the Mediterranean Sea in 2016

• One in seven people living with HIV in Europe don’t know about their illness

• Global tendency to an increasing number of patients with COPD

• Pope allows priests to absolve the sin of abortion

• US homeopathy manufacturers will be required to label their medicines “unscientific”

• Kirgizia bans religious marriages with minors

• Turkish authorities refuse to legalize sex with minors

• A quarter of Europeans are willing to justify rape

• New rating of dangerous countries for tourists

The newspapers write about…

• “ZNAK” on Russia’s economic and demographic problems

• “Nakanune.RU” on a “global demographic management plan”

• “RIA Novosti” on a new conception of demographic policy

• “Life” about how realistic are plans for population growth of the Far East

• “Ogonyok” on the reduction of maternity hospitals

• “Moskovskiy Kosomolets-Kaliningrad” on the abolition of subsidies for the birth of a third child in the Kaliningrad region

• “Moskovskiy Komsomolets” on proposals to make it harder to divorce

• “TASS” on the incidence of infectious diseases in the world

• “Rossiskaya Gazeta” on tactics in the fight against HIV

• “Novye Izvestiya” on limitations on access to drugs of people with HIV

• “RBK” on surrogate alcohol

• “Parlamentskaya Gazeta” on a cut in quotas for Temporary Residence Permits

• “Novaya Gazeta” on the riot in a Bulgarian refugee camp

• “Mezhdunarodny Discussionny Klub “Valdai”” on the migration crisis in Europe

• “RBK” on investment citizenship

• “The American Conservative” on the transformation of whites into a minority in the USA

• “Kommersant” on the growing burden on the social system in the OECD

• “RBK” on a possible rejection of free healthcare

• “Polit.ru” on social protection

• “Russkaya Sluzhba BBC” on helping the poor

• “Kommersant” on the problems of labor productivity growth

• “Novaya Gazeta” on a regional map of the crisis

• “Vedomosti” on possible tax reform

• “ZNAK” on mega-agglomerations

• “Lenta.Ru” on “racially valuable” Polish women

• “Polit.ru” on the attitudes of young people to other countries

• “Scientific American” on the possibilities of colonizing Titan

Read books and magazines

• HIV/AIDS Surveillance in Europe 2015

• Acceleration of measures to stop the AIDS epidemic

• Russia’s migration policy: Past and present

• Population and Housing censuses in Eastern Europe, the Caucasus and Central Asia

• Demographic Yearbook of the Kirgiz Republic: 2011-2015

• Through the pages of the journals “Demographiya ta sotsialna ekonomika” (“Demography and Social economics”) and “Rossiyskiy onkologicheskiy zhurnal” (“Russian Journal of Oncology”)

• Contents of the “Journal of International Migration and Integration”

Demographic digest

• Long-Distance Migration and Mortality in Sweden: Testing the Salmon Bias and Healthy Migrant Hypotheses

• Spanking and child outcomes: Old controversies and new meta-analyses

• Bonus: Blind review: single or double?

Profession: researcher

• “25 years after: Between the Soviet past and the unclear Eurasian and European future” Conference on Migration Issues at the Central European University

• Lev Dmitrievich Gudkov turns 70

• In memory of Leonid Viktorovich Smirnyagin

• Leonid Viktorovich Smirnyagin through the eyes of his friends

Satirical column

• American demographic conspiracy against Russia