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Current topic: What the experience of family policy teaches

• Milestones and basic measures of family policy

• What policy can and can’t do

• The Russian experience

• Conclusions for politicians

• Links to related topics

• Topics of previous issues

Russian demographic barometer

• Russia: demographic results for the first half of 2017 (Part I)

• Has the trend towards decrease resumed? The population of Russia shrank by 17,000 people (0.01%) over the first six months of 2017, coming to 146.8 million as of July 1

• Natural decrease rose by 3.7 times, and net migration shrank by 1.4 times as compared to January-June 2016

• In January-June 2017, nearly 12% fewer children were born than in the same period in 2016

• In 2016 there was a decline in total fertility

• In the first half of 2017, the number of registered marriages increased by 5%, and the number of divorces by 0.3% compared to the same period in 2016

Through the eyes of the analysts

• The comparative effectiveness of family benefits in Europe

• A family-friendly workplace: political initiatives, the employer’s position and types of support for workers with family responsibilities

• “We just live together”: Cohabitation in modern Russia

Q&A

• I don’t want to study, I want to get married, or concerning the age of marriage

• Work: workload, salary, relations with colleagues

• Xenophobia in 2017

• Alcoholism and how to fight it

In the vastness of Russia

• Average life expectancy of Russians has reached 72.5 years for first time ever

• Mortality in Russia has decreased by 2.3%

• The number of long-livers in Russia has grown

• The Far Eastern Federal University will begin to prepare professional demographers

• The Ministry of Economic Development predicts a reduction in pensions in real terms

• The number of Russians considering themselves poor decreased in the second quarter

• Labor productivity in Russia in 2015 was two times lower than in the OECD countries

• One in four Russians has never been to Moscow

• Graduates of Moscow State University recognized as among the world’s most successful job-seekers

• Sberbank will start issuing passports

• Law comes into force simplifying procedure for renouncing Ukrainian citizenship when receiving Russian citizenship

• Terrorists can now be stripped of Russian citizenship

• To take up Russian citizenship you will now need to take an oath

• The permissible percentages of employment of foreign labor migrants will not change in 2018

• New bill proposes to increase fines for various kinds of assistance to illegal migrants

• Russia registers new surge in HIV/AIDS epidemic

• Ministry of Health will prepare proposal on combating HIV-dissidence

• Russian Orthodox Church comes out against HIV-dissidence

• The price of drugs for HIV patients has been cut in half in past 18 months

• Alcohol consumption in Russia has nearly halved in last 10 years

• Two-thirds of Russians would support a new anti-alcohol campaign

• Ministry of Health comes out against Internet selling alcohol on-line

• Medvedev demands ban on sale of powdered alcohol

• Ministry of Health worried about the critical level of alcoholism in the Far East

• Moscow doctors examining children from other regions

• Muscovites can get a free flu shot right at the metro station

• The number of obese children in Russia has doubled

• Ministry of Health proposes to impose a fine for rising prices on vital medicines

• Work of doctors will be standardized by 2019

• Most Russians say their main fear is an illness of their loved ones

World news

• As of July 1, 2017 the population of Latvia was 1,938,000 people

• Having children in Latvia is financially unprofitable

• The limit of a human life could very well be 114-115 years

• In 10 years the Earth may face food shortages

• Over 60% of Ukrainians are below the poverty line

• In August, unemployment in the US rose to 4.4%

• Wage growth in Lithuania not stopping emigration

• European Union lacks solidarity

• US stops issuing visas to citizens of several countries

• Most Latvians do not want to support immigrants

• UN criticizes Hungary for its treatment of migrants

• Trump gives Congress 6 months to replace DACA program for children of illegal immigrants

• 15 US states protest in court the White House decision on immigrants

• UN returns refugees to Burundi

• Trump proclaims September as National Alcohol and Drug Addiction Recovery Month

• Georgia tops list of countries by road traffic-related mortality

• The effectiveness of tumor markers is 2%

• In Ukraine, the incidence of measles has increased more than 100-fold over the year

• In the Caribbean, more than a million people have been affected by hurricane Irma

• Rosturism warns tourists about chikungunya fever in France

• Americans ready to open first private breast milk bank in Russia

• Patients admitted to the hospital on weekends die more often

• British scientists name Norway the happiest country in the world

The newspapers write about…

• “Kommersant” on the fertility decline in Russia

• “Novye Izvestiya” on social and biological paternity

• “Gazeta.ru” on the forecast for road traffic accident mortality

• “Vedomosti” on the treatment of oncological diseases in Russia

• “The New York Times” on gene therapy for leukemia

• “Forbes” on the effectiveness of the antismoking campaign

• “Helsingin Sanomat” on Finnish vodka tourism

• “Novye Izvestiya” on a “sobriety ban” in Russia

• “The Village” and “Rossiyskaya Gazeta” on the consequences of HIV dissidents for children

• “Tamil BBC Service” on features of screening for cervical cancer in India

• “Gazeta.ru” on Russian-Ukrainian migration

• “Deutsche Welle” on migration from Kazakhstan to Russia

• “Berlingske” on border control within the EU

• “Kommersant” on a passport rating

• “TCH.ua” on different citizenships

• “Rossiyskaya Gazeta” on migration in the Far East

• “Kommersant” on the economy and population of the Far East

• “REGNUM” on Krasnodar – a “million-plus” city

• “Project Syndicate” on the economy of Chinese megacities

• “Novye Izvestiya” on the economic situation of the Russia middle class

• “Meduza” on Finland’s experiment with a guaranteed income

• “Gazeta.ru” on the minimum wage and the subsistence level

• “Moskovskiy Kosomolets” on the situation on the Russia labor market

• “Izvestiya” on professional standards for nannies

• “Vedomosti” on the consequences of the aging of the Russian labor force

• “Forbes” on business models of care for the elderly

• “Izvestiya” on long-livers

• “Kommersant” on the level of education of the population of OECD countries

• “The Guardian” on the Rohingya

Read books and magazines

• On the situation of children and families with children in the city of Moscow in 2015

• Children of Moldova

• Marriage and fertility behaviour in Japan. Economic status and value-orientation

• Health, United States, 2016

• Demography and socio-economic problems of the population

• Through the pages of the journals “Demografiya ta sotsialna ekonomika” (“Demography and Social economy”) and “Rossiyskiy Meditsinskiy Zhurnal” (“Russian Medical Journal”)

• Contents of the journal “Studies in Family Planning”

Profession: researcher

• Cancer research and its determinant based on registers. Scientific seminar "Modern Demography" of the International Laboratory of Population and Health Studies of the Higher School of Economics

• Anniversary of Tatiana Mikhailovna Malyeva

• List of publications by Tatiana Mikhailovna Malyeva

• Happy anniversary to Sergei Alekseevich Vasin