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Current topic: Matrimonial Behaviour of Russians and other Europeans

• Values and the modernization of marriage-partner behaviour

• Data for comparing Russia with other countries

• Different rates of change in matrimonial behaviour

• Singlehood is growing, people are not seeking to remarry

• Links to related topics

• Topics of previous issues

Russian demographic barometer

The population of Russia according to the forecast of the UN revision of 2017

• According to UN estimates, the population of Russia as of July 1, 2017 came to 144 million people, and by the end of the century will, with

• 95% certainty, be between 99 and 159 million

• In the next few years the decline in the population of Russia will, according to the UN, intensify, while a small increase is possible only if there is high fertility

• By the middle of the century, there is a 95% probability that total fertility will be between 1.56 and 2.26

• Life expectancy in Russia will grow steadily, but only in the last quarter of the century will it surpass the world average

• The median age of the population of Russia will increase until 2040, while in 2050-2060 it will decrease, according to all UN forecast scenarios

Through the eyes of analysts

• Marriage, fertility and reproduction of the maternal generation in Belarus and Ukraine: the experience of comparative analysis

• Causes of divorce in modern Russia

• Problems of conflict regulation in marriage and family relations in international private law in Russia

Take care of women!

• We don’t practice birth control correctly

• Significant global progress in the fight against AIDS has sidestepped Eastern Europe and Central Asia

In the vastness of Russia

• A proposal to move the capital beyond the Urals

• State Duma refuses to move Russia’s capital beyond the Urals

• Most Russians are against common-law marriage

• Deadline for issuing foreign travel passports will be shortened

• US Embassy in Moscow suspends the issuance of visas

• Russians will be able to obtain US visas in other countries

• Agency for Ethnic Affairs will deal with migration policy

• Russia has already opened four universal migration centres

• 2,500 foreigners deported from Russia in last six months

• In State Duma a worldwide decrease of 50 million Russian speakers has been announced

• The idea of “Russia only for Russians” is supported by 10% of Russians

• HIV epidemic gaining momentum in Russia

• 4 billion additional rubles allocated for purchasing medicines for HIV patients

• Ministry of Health proposes to raise the price of vodka to 300 rubles

• Will an increase in the price of vodka lead to an increase in the consumption of surrogate alcohol?

• Students drink less than their working peers

• Russia takes second place in world in terms of the number of traffic fatalities

• The number of posts of the Russian traffic police on the roads has been cut threefold

• Ministry of Health announces the most common diseases in Russia

• Russia facing a rise in flu-related deaths this winter

• Russian flu vaccine being exported to Kazakhstan

• Modernization of health care will cause massive layoffs of nurses

• Ministry of Health proposes to extend the deadline for hospitals in Crimea to obtain a licence

• In Moscow, the number of parking permits for disabled people has tripled

• Russians speak out against expensive weddings

World News

• Population of Pakistan reaches almost 208 million people

• Latvia has lost almost a quarter of its schoolchildren over past 12 years

• 50% of occupations expected to soon disappear

• US may reduce the number of “cultural exchange” visas

• Ukraine introduces biometrics for border control

• Emigrants from Lithuania not planning to return home

• President of Moldova will seek to continue the legalization of Moldovan migrants in Russia

• Labour migrants do not want to leave Uzbekistan permanently

• Lithuania glad to have cheap labour from Ukraine

• In Turkey, the number of labour migrants from Kirgizia has doubled

• Citizens of Ukraine the most numerous labour migrants in Germany

• Tajik authorities concerned about the problem of pensions for labour migrants

• 390,000 Syrians will have the right to take their families to Germany

• Canada facing an “unprecedented” influx of refugees

• In 2017, four citizens of Russia received refugee status in Georgia

• HIV is no longer the leading cause of death in Africa

• Kirgiz Ministry of Health does not have enough money for HIV treatment

• Latvia does not have enough money to fight HIV and hepatitis

• 8 out of 1000 children in the world are born with alcohol syndrome

• Married people are less likely to die from a heart attack

• Tourists flying to Vietnam were warned of Dengue fever

• In Israel, too many patients and too few doctors

• Being brought up by a same-sex couple does not affect the gender identity of adopted children

The newspapers write about…

• “Znak.ru” on the demographic situation in Russia

• “Le Temps” on Russia’s demographic future

• “Yle” on mortality in road traffic accidents

• “Izvestiya” on AIDS in Russia

• “Izvestiya” on the price of vodka

• “IQ” on teenagers and alcohol

• “EurasiaNet” on poverty in Russia

• “OTP” on the income of Russian families

• “Russkaya Sluzhba BBC” on Russian old people and old age

• “Yle” on middle age

• “Kommersant” on labour migration to Russia

• “InoSMI.RU” on the migration problem in Europe

• “Financial Times” on the integration of migrants in Europe

• “The Guardian” on refugees as a political problem in Germany

• “Neue Zurcher Zeitung” on Syrian refugees in Lebanon

• “Krone.at” on the Polish green card

• “Aftenposten” on Polish and other immigrants in Oslo

• “Al-Eqtisadiya” on problems with domestic workers in Hong Kong

• “REGNUM” on student emigration from Kazakhstan

• “Takie Dela” on internal migration in Russia

• “Gazeta.ru”, “Novye Izvestiya”, “IA REGNUM” and “Komsomolskaya Pravda” on “Demuscovitization”

• “Russkaya Sluzhba BBC” and “Dagbladet” on “family reunification” in Chechnya

• “NoonPost” on indigenous peoples of the world

• “Gazeta.ru” on American visas for Russians, Cambodians and Africans

Read books and newspapers

• On the state of the sanitary and epidemiological well-being of the population

• Hedic health expenditures by diseases and conditions

• Low fertility, institutions, and their policies. Variations across industrialized countries

• Children of Kazakhstan

• The family in the Republic of Belarus

• Through the pages of the journals “Narodonaseleniye” (“Population”) and “Gigiena i sanitariya” (“Hygiene and Sanitation”)

• Contents of the journal “Demography”

Demographic digest

• Second Unions Now More Stable than First? A Comparison of Separation Risks by Union Order in France

• Trapped in migrants’ sectors? Polish women in the Icelandic labour market

• BONUS: You draw like…

Profession: researcher

• 90 years since the first World Population Conference

• World conferences of the International Union for Scientific Population Research

• On the 145^th anniversary of the birth of Sergei Aleksandrovich Novoselsky

• S. A. Novoselsky. On the closeness of the connection between fertility and infant mortality

Students page

• Get acquainted gathering with new graduate students