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Current topic: Has the potential of structural factors of fertility growth been exhausted? Part 2

• Maternity in Russia has almost stopped aging

• The restructuring of the age model of fertility in rural areas is lagging

• Stagnation of the probability of first births and the growth of large families in Russia

• Cohort fertility: cause for gladness or grief?

• Links to related topics

• · Topics of previous issues

European demographic barometer

Families with children and their social protection in the EU-28

• In the EU-28 live 65.6 million families with children - 30% of the total number of households

• Expenditures for the social protection of families with children make up 2.4% of EU-28 GDP

• Expenditures for the social protection of families with children in 2014 came to 3,463 euros for a child under 18 years of age

• Two-thirds of the costs of social protection of families with children in the EU-28 are directed to cash benefits, but the share of assistance in kind is growing

• Three quarters of the funds for the social protection of families with children are provided without proof of income

Through the eyes of the analysts

• Desired and real fertility in Tropical Africa

• Demographic potential and the stimulation of fertility

• Interethnic marriages in Kazakhstan: an assessment of preferences using a matrix of interethnic distances

Take care of women!

• Views on sexuality and gender in Eastern and Central Europe

In the vastness of Russia

• The population of Novosibirsk has surpassed 1.6 million people

• Putin reports decline in fertility in Russia

• Putin has declared a need to support fertility, but has not specified by what measures

• The Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Labor argue over measures to stimulate fertility

• The issue of raising the retirement age is being discussed, but has not yet been resolved

• The Russian regions getting poorer faster

• Is the minimum salary in Russia less than in Honduras?

• Medvedev promises to send 5 billion rubles for the construction of new schools in the North Caucasus

• Putin approves new amendments to the Labor Code

• In Russia, a proposal to allow permanent registration at one’s place of work

• State Duma passes law on the registration of biometric passports through MFCs

• (Multifunctional Centers)

• The rise in price of a passport to 5,000 rubles will not reduce tourism abroad

• Ministry of Internal Affairs may simplify citizenship acquisition procedure for foreign honor students

• Migration growth in Russia has fallen by a third

• 15% of Russians thinking about emigrating

• Seventeen subjects of the Russian Federation want to withdraw from the compatriot resettlement program

• Ministry of Internal Affairs submits bill to State Duma on obligatory fingerprinting of migrants

• In Russia has appeared a service to help Old Believer migrants

• Foreign doctors applying for jobs in Russia

• Patients without a Moscow residence permit may be deprived of HIV drugs

• Russians have begun drinking and smoking less

• Chief narcologist of the Russian Federation does not consider Moscow one of the most heavily drinking regions

• In Moscow, 280,000 cancer patients

• The increase in the number of cancer patients in Moscow is explained by the high life expectancy

• Skvortsova tells what children in Russia die from

• Ministry of Health starts program to motivate children three years and older to lead a healthy lifestyle

• Mortality from strokes and heart attacks in hospitals declining by 8% per year

• As of July 1, electronic sick leave certificates will not be implemented everywhere

• Russian Ministry of Health suggests limiting the use of antibiotics

• Doctors from state medical care running to the private sector

World news

• Global life expectancy has risen by 6 years since 1990

• Demographers forecasting a reduction in the population of Ukraine to 30 million by 2050

• One in five children in industrially developed countries lives in poverty

• In Latvia, more than 39,000 large families

• In 2016 more than 110,000 people were granted German citizenship

• Ukraine Ministry of Foreign Affairs is ready to introduce visas with Russia

• Over a thousand Ukrainians immediately took advantage of visa-free travel regime in EU

• British entrepreneurs fear the introduction of a visa regime with the EU

• According to Merkel, “isolation and the building of walls” will not solve the problem of immigration

• US government ends protection of undocumented immigrant parents

• Italy ready to grant citizenship to immigrant children

• EU agreement with Turkey has reduced flow of refugees across the Turkish border by 97%

• In Austria, a proposal to block Mediterranean migrant route

• Outflow of migrants from Bulgaria continues

• UN calls for 13-fold increase in number of places for resettlement of refugees

• Czech Republic does not intend to change its position on refugees

• Refugees in Germany have begun travelling to their home countries more often

• About 80% of refugees arrived in Belarus from Ukraine

• 106,000 Tajik migrants will be able to return to Russia again

• The number of dead from cholera in Yemen has surpassed 700 people

• In Italy, a significant increase in the numbers of cases of measles

• UNICEF compares health of children in 40 countries

• One in five children in France suffers from excessive thinness

• Physicians name USA “fattest” country in world

• Are bacteria ending the era of antibiotics?

• In Tajikistan, doctors forbidden to take money from pharmaceutical companies

• Authorities in India have advised pregnant women to abstain from meat and thoughts about sex

The newspapers write about…

• “FederalPress” on population themes in the President’s call-in show

• “RIA Novosti” on Russia’s demographic problems

• “Polit.ru” and “Kommersant” on the future of the maternity capital

• “Vedomosti”, “m24.ru” and “Svobodnaya Pressa” on supporting fertility

• “iq.hse.ru” on alcohol-related mortality

• “Rossiyskaya gazeta” on alcohol consumption in Russia’s regions

• “Vechernyaya” Moskva” on AIDS

• “RFI” on AIDS prevention and obscurantism

• “Kommersant” on problems of the federal AIDS center

• “Kommersant” on a strategy for combating hepatitis C

• “Forbes” on the medical services market

• “Novye Izvestiya” on problems of rural medicine

• “Izvestiya” on the health of Russian children

• “RBK” on refugees in the world

• “Die Welt” on deporting migrants from the EU

• “Izvestiya” on migration in Russia in early 2017

• “Novye Izvestiya” and “Lenta.ru” on resettlement and problems of Old Believers in the Far East

• “Rossiyskaya gazeta” on reducing xenophobia

• “Publico” on the growth of the world population and natural resources

• “Kommersant” on unemployment in the world

• “Novye Izvestiya” on dual education

• “iq.hse.ru” on housework of men and women

• “Wonderzine” on pregnancy coercion

• “Life” on problems with Ireland’s abortion ban

• “Vedomosti” on the causes of the Red Army’s military losses in the Second World War

• “EurasiaNet” on the famine in Kazakhstan in the 1930s

• “Kommersant” on the problems of launching an electronic population database

Read books and magazines

• Global strategy for women's, children's and adolescents health (2016-2030)

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• Women and men of the Kirgiz Republic 2011-2015

• Through the pages of the journals “Demograficheskoye obozreniye” (“Demographic Review”) and “Problemy prognozirovaniya” (“Problems of Forecasting”)

• Contents of the journal “International Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health”

Demographic digest

• Delayed Registration and Identifying the “Missing Girls” in China

• Religion and Fertility in Western Europe: Trends Across Cohorts in Britain, France and the Netherlands

• BONUS: How to represent sequences of events

Profession: researcher

• The policy of returning home: The compatriot resettlement program in the Primorsky Krai. Scientific seminar of the Institute of Demography of the Higher School of Economics “Demographic Challenges of the 21^st Century”

• Mongolia at the crossroads of external migrations. International conference in Ulaanbaatar

• New pages in the biography of Yevgeny Kulisher

• Yevgeny Kulisher. In memory of V.D. Nabokov

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