Contents of Demoscope Weekly issue

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Current topic: Labor migration from small Russian towns

  • What we know about the labor migration of Russians

  • The prevalence of labor migration in small towns

  • Reasons for internal labor migration?

  • Portrait of a labor migrant from a small town

  • Destinations of internal migrant workers

  • Economic reasons for working in other cities

  • Benefits and costs of labor migration

  • Conclusion

  • Links to related topics

  • Topics of previous issues

World demographic barometer

  • The population of the world according to the UN 2017 Revision

  • According to UN estimates, the world's population as of July 1, 2017 came to 7.6 billion people, and by the end of the century will be, with a probability of 95%, between 9.6 and 13.2 billion

  • 60% of the world's population lives in Asia and 17% in Africa; by the end of the century the proportions could be 43% and 40%, respectively

  • 46% of the world's population lives in 83 countries with fertility below replacement level

  • 58% of the world's population lives in countries with a life expectancy of 70 years or more, 9% - of 80 years or more

  • Developed countries annually receive more than 2 million “net” migrants

  • Half the world's population is under 30 years old, and in Europe half of the population is over 43

Through the eyes of analysts

  • Labor mobility as an adaptation to the crisis of urban labor markets in the Urals, Siberia and the Far East

  • Between the North and the Mainland: The road from Western Siberia to Dagestan as an element of the social space of a translocal migrant

  • Internal Russian labor migration: scale and structural features

Q&A

  • The modern family: Who’s in charge?

  • Emigration moods

  • Alcohol consumption

  • Drug addiction in Russia: what is the scale of the problem, and how to deal with it?

  • The religiosity of Russians

In the vastness of Russia

  • Life expectancy in Russia has exceeded 72 years for the first time ever

  • Regions of the Russian Federation with the lowest and highest life expectancy

  • In Russia, a growing natural decline in population

  • The number of marriages in Russia in 2017 increased by 8.5%

  • Almost half of young couples in Russia want only one child

  • ver the past 20 years, the outflow of population from the Far East has come to about 2 million people

  • Next population census estimated to cost 50 billion rubles

  • 1.4 million fewer poor people in Russia

  • Low salaries are the main problem for Russians

  • The number of Russians considering themselves well-off has reached a five-year high

  • Working pensioners will receive an increase in pensions

  • The size of the maternity capital will increase as of January 1, 2020

  • Proposal to exempt large families from property tax

  • State Duma simplifies acquisition of Russian citizenship for Ukrainians

  • Russians name most attractive countries for emigration

  • Foreigners have begun coming to Russia for medical care more often

  • nly a third of HIV-infected people in Russia receive treatment

  • Head of Rospotrebnadzor names cities with highest HIV rates

  • State Duma will oblige parents to send HIV-infected children for treatment

  • Russians have begun dying from alcohol less often

  • Russian regions with the highest smoking rates

  • Golodets demands that Ministry of Health speed up treatment of cancer patients

  • The number of hospital beds in Russia has declined by 23,000 in past year

  • Russia to begin rating medical institutions

  • Medvedev calls for improving service in polyclinics

  • Government intends to get half of Russians doing sport by 2025

  • In State Duma, a proposal to reject bill on the prohibition of baby boxes

  • State Duma Committee rejects bill on prohibition of surrogate motherhood

  • Russia begins issuing electronic sick notes

  • Muscovites will be able to get married in galleries, museums and the zoo

World news

  • By 2100 the world’s population will exceed 11 billion people

  • About 23 million people around the world are preparing to migrate

  • Growth in the UK’s population setting 70-year records

  • Shrinking of Japan’s population hits record high for the past 50 years

  • The US population is getting older and more ethnically diverse

  • 16.7% of China’s population are over age 60

  • The population of Kazakhstan has exceeded 18 million people

  • The population of Uzbekistan as of July 1, 2017 is 32.3 million people

  • The population of Kirgizia is 6,140,200

  • According to Lukashenko, the population of Belarus should reach 15 million

  • Latvians born abroad will not improve the demographic situation in the country

  • The number of mixed marriages in America is growing

  • The aging of the population and immigration are requiring more and more budget spending in Sweden

  • ver the past 10 years the number of Russian citizens in Latvia has increased by 28,000

  • Uzbekistan to introduce foreign travel passports in 2019

  • Ukraine Ministry of Foreign Affairs considers it useless to introduce visas with the Russian Federation

  • Most US citizens support reform of the immigration system

  • Macron calls the taking in of refugees a European tradition

  • In 2017 there was a sharp increase in the flow of migrants to Spain

  • Foreigners will be allowed to stay in Belarus for up to 10 days without registration

  • Citizens of Kirgizia will be able to work as drivers in Russia using their Kirgiz license

  • The number of deaths from HIV in the world has decreased by half over past 10 years

  • The overall level of alcohol consumption in Belarus is 8.8 liters per person

  • Giving up alcohol and cigarettes can add 12 years to your life

  • Approximately 5% of the world’s population regularly use drugs

  • Global warming may lead to protein deficiency in 150 million people

The newspapers write…

  • “Izvestiya” on Russia’s demographic prospects

  • “EurasiaNet”, “Mosovskiy Komsomolets”, “Mir24” and “Al Araby Al Jadeed” on the decline in fertility in Russia

  • “Slate.fr” on the demographic situation in Africa

  • “Rossiyskaya Gazeta” on the demographic future of the Far East

  • “Gazeta.ru” on internal migration in Russia

  • “Kommersant”, “Meduza” and “EastRussia” on migration policy and the migration situation in the Russian Far East

  • “Kommersant” on student and post-student migration

  • “Novaya Gazeta” and “Meduza” on labor migration from North Korea to Russia and China

  • “Fergananews” on the integration of migrants

  • “Gazeta.ru” on migration and politics

  • “Polit.ru” on the new immigration bill in the USA

  • “Suddeutsche Zeitung” on Russian Germans and elections in Germany

  • “Russkaya Germaniya” on migration to the EU from Libya

  • “EurasiaNet” on the emigration of Russia’s rich

  • “Takie dela” on emigration from Russia

  • “Parlamentskaya Gazeta” on simplifying the granting of Russian citizenship to Ukrainians

  • “RBK” on the reaction of Ukraine to Russia’s simplified procedure for the termination of citizenship

  • “Izvestiya” on the growth of life expectancy in Russia

  • “Radio Svoboda” on the overstating of life expectancy in the North Caucasus

  • “Medportal” on the aging of the population and changes in the definition of old age

  • “El Confidencial” on the limits of human life

  • “XXII VEK” on HIV-AIDS in the world and in Russia

  • “Meduza” on the victims of HIV-dissidence

  • “The Village” on selective abortions

  • “Russkaya Sluzhba BBC” on Chinese women freezing their eggs

  • “Kommersant” on the responsibility of employers for employees to undergo state medical exams

  • “Vedomosti” on the Russian labor market

  • “Vedomosti” on the reduction of wages with age

  • “Vedomosti” on barriers to the development of large urban agglomerations

  • “Kommersant” on cities old and new

  • “Kommersant” on inequality in physical activity

  • “Mediazona” on “honor killings”

Read books and magazines

  • Geographical arabesques: spaces of inspiration, freedom and unfreedom

  • Migrant Integration — 2017 Edition

  • Migration and the Ukraine crisis: a two-country perspective

  • World population prospects. The 2017 revision

  • ECD Urban Policy Review: Kazakhstan. 2017

  • Through the pages of the journals “Sotsialnye aspekty zdorovya naseleniya” (“Social aspects of public health”) and “Ekonomika i organizatsiya promyshlennovo proizvodstva (EKO)” (“Economics and organization of industrial production” (ECO))

  • Contents of the journal “Demographic Research”

Demographic digest

  • Is Divorce More Painful When Couples Have Children? Evidence From Long-Term Panel Data on Multiple Domains of Well-being

  • Why still marry? The role of feelings in the persistence of marriage as an institution

  • BONUS: Academic unfreedom of speech

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  • Welcome to the new graduate students of 2017!

 

 
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