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Current topic: Will the demographic explosion be contained?

• The explosion: two positions

• The evolution of anti-natalist policy

• From anti-Malthusianism to pragmatism?

• Towards an international consensus under the auspices of the UN

• Demographic programs: some results

• Will Nigeria follow the path of large countries?

• Topics of previous issues

Russian demographic barometer

Migration in Russia, the results of the first half of 2017

• Net migration of the Russian population decreased by 28% compared to January-June 2016

• Russia’s greatest net migration again came from population exchange with Ukraine, although half as much as in the previous year

• The volume of domestic migration in Russia fell by 0.6% in January-June 2017

• In January-June 2017, the population of 66 out of 85 regions increased due to migration exchange with CIS countries, 14 due to migration exchange with other regions of Russia

• At the end of June 2017, the number of foreign nationals with a valid work permit in Russia came to 132,000 people, with a work license – 1,582,500 people

Through the eyes of the analysts

• Family planning programs and their impact on fertility: the experience of the developing world and the prospects for its application in Africa

• A Malthusian trap in the age of globalization?

• Prospects for Russian Family Policy: tradition by coercion

Q&A

• “Term of survival” and other gems, or about old age in Russia

• What Russians know and think about contraception

• Attitudes towards emigrants

• Demographic development of the Far East: health capital

In the vastness of Russia

• Natural decline in the population of Russia in the first 7 months came to 114,400 people

• Mortality fell by 2.5% in the first eight months of 2017

• Mortality in Russia the highest in Europe for men under 65

• Men in Russia have on average begun living longer

• The percentage of children in the structure of the population of Russia has grown

• By 2030 the number of pensioners in Russia will increase significantly

• Kadyrov asks to take into account the birth rate in Chechnya when setting the budget

• Will real incomes of the population be restored within three years?

• In State Duma, a proposal to increase children’s benefits to 3,000 rubles

• Moscow to increase benefits for the poor and for disabled children

• Russia may increase the size of state taxes on divorce and alimony recovery

• The problem of the labor shortage for the economy will not be quickly resolved

• In Russia, about 10,000 people have no citizenship

• Migration flows to Russia are declining

• Ministry of Internal Affairs proposes to carry out fingerprinting at the Russian border

• About 50,000 children in Russia need medical palliative care

• The positive dynamic of the decreased number of abortions in Russia remains

• The number of teenage abortions in the past five years has been halved

• Children’s ombudsman calls talk about banning abortions “premature”

• Mortality of prisoners from tuberculosis has decreased by 45%

• More than 200 Russian schoolchildren died in PE class in previous school year

• 29 million Russians have had flu vaccinations

• Vaccination of conscripts from pneumococcal infection will cost 1.6 billion rubles

• Medicines for children with rare diseases need to be paid for from the budget

• In Russia, an increase in the number of surrogate mothers

• Ministry of Health will increase the per capita norm of mandatory health insurance by almost a quarter

• Healthy Life Style campaign will be launched next year

• Government approves strategy to combat antibiotic resistance

• Government allocates 270 million rubles for monitoring the health of schoolchildren

• Introduction of electronic prescriptions is supported by 90% of patients

• Ministry of Health creates form for sex change certificate

• Law on age requirements for heads of medical organizations goes into force

• Nearly one half of young Russians have not heard about Stalin’s repressions

World news

• A pilot population census will be held in Belarus

• One in five inhabitants of Latvia is over 65 years of age

• Poroshenko signs law on pension reform

• In Poland, law reducing retirement age comes into force

• In Latvia, child allowances will be raised for large families

• Moldova will give citizenship to large foreign investors

• Turkey, in tit-for-tat move, suspends issuance of nonimmigrant visas to US citizens

• US human rights defenders will challenge migration decree

• The number of Ukrainians wishing to emigrate has grown

• In 2016, Ukrainians working in Poland sent home over 2 billion dollars

• Migrants transferred 92.2 billion rubles to Kirgizia during first eight months of year

• 2 million more refugees in the world since the start of the year

• European Commission proposes new resettlement scheme for 50,000 refugees

• Trump intends to restrict the reception of refugees in the US

• Canada will change rules for the reception of refugees

• Italians no longer want to accept migrants

• US putting up prototypes of border wall

• 25 million women annually resort to “underground” abortions

• 81% of breast cancer cases are diagnosed among women over 50 years of age

• US will spend four trillion dollars to fight obesity

• Can bad work organization lead to depression?

• The number of cholera cases in Yemen will reach 1 million by the end of the year

• Is the modern healthcare system not ready to respond to the needs of the elderly?

• Germany registers first same-sex marriage

The newspapers write about…

• “Izvestiya” on the “record” share of children in Russia

• “Russkaya Sluzhba BBC” and “Polit.ru” on fertility subsidies in Chechnya

• “Wonderzine” on maternity leave

• “Novye Izvestiya” on the maternity capital in Primorye

• “Foreign Policy” on the anti-abortion movement in Russia

• “Kayhan” on “restraining the development of the national gene pool” of Iran

• “Kommersant” on marriage in Russia

• “Meduza” on the deaths of children in physical education classes

• “Meduza” on HIV-dissidence

• “Nezavisimaya Gazeta” on mortality in the Crimea

• “Rossiyskaya Gazeta” on co-financing medical services within the framework of mandatory health insurance

• “Sputnik” on home birth

• “TASS” on old age

• “ASI” on aging and life expectancy

• “Rossiyskaya Gazeta” on migration in Russia

• “Rossiyskaya Gazeta” on border checks of migrants

• “Kommersant” on visas for foreign students

• “Le Figaro” on attitudes in Europe to immigration

• “Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung” on the differences between East and West Germany

• “The Washington Post” on teenagers and models of growing up

• “Russkaya Sluzhba BBC” and “Life” on the Nobel Prize for studying the economic behavior of the population

• “Nezavisimaya Gazeta” on well-being

• “REGNUM” on the future of the Far East

• “Postnauka” on masculinity in the Middle Ages

• “Sabq” and “Le Monde” on allowing Saudi women to drive

Read books and magazines

• Monitoring the demographic development of Moscow. 2015-2016

• Demographic Yearbook of the Republic of Belarus, 2017

• Eurostat Regional Yearbook 2017

• State regulation of socio-demographic processes in Russia

• The main indicators of maternal and child health, the activities of child welfare and obstetric care in the Russian Federation

• Through the pages of the journals “Demograficheskoye Obozreniye” (“Demographic Review”) and “Profilakticheskaya Meditsina” (“Preventive Medicine”)

• Contents of the journal “Population and Environment”

Demographic Digest

• Social Structure, Adversity, Toxic Stress, and Intergenerational Poverty: An Early Childhood Model

• Why do immigrants have longer periods of unemployment? Swiss evidence

• Transforming cities: does urbanization promote democratic change?

• BONUS: Lovers through the lens of statistics

Profession: researcher

• Historical and modern trends of mortality and morbidity. International Scientific Seminar in Novosibirsk Academgorodok

• Why does Russia have such a high mortality from cardiovascular diseases? International research project

• 140 years since the birth of Sergei Arkadievich Tomilin

•    S.A. Tomilin. Population economics: its socio-hygienic and national economic importance

•    S.A. Tomilin. Longevity statistics