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Current topic: Migration in the UK on the eve of the migration crisis in Europe. Part 1

• Expansion of the EU and the increase in immigration to the UK

• Traditional destinations of immigration

• Student and labor migration are in first place

• Where immigrants settle

• Emigration from Great Britain still on a significant scale

• Reasons for emigrating

• Topics of previous issues

European demographic barometer

EU-28: first demographic results of 2016

• As of the beginning of 2017, the population of the EU-28 came to 512 million people

• Migration growth for the second consecutive year remains the only factor in the growth of the EU-28 population

• In 2016, as in 2015, there were 5.1 million people born in the EU-28, or 10 per 1,000

• 5.1 million people died in 2016 ? 1.7% fewer than in 2015

• The median age of the EU-28 population increased to 42.6 years

Through the eyes of the analysts

• An analysis of the mechanism of migration of Russian-speaking scientists in the field of computer science to Great Britain

• Schooling children of other ethnicities in the UK (based on the example of London)

• Geographic features of migration links in Europe

Take care of women!

• Abortion rates in Russia and the US now nearly the same

• FAS has prepared proposal to reduce prices for barrier contraceptives

In the vastness of Russia

• Putin amends decree on demographic policy

• The population of Moscow is 12,449,000 people

• The population of St. Petersburg is 5,310,000 people

• In rural areas, accelerated growth in the number of pensioners

• Russia again discussing pension reform

• State Duma simplifies conditions for submitting an application to the registry office through the state services portal

• The North Caucasus has highest unemployment rate

• Will 40% of all professions disappear due to the development of the digital economy?

• Gref advises young people to work 18 hours a day

• State Duma intends to fight against “rubber offices”

• The contribution of Tajik migrants to Russia’s GDP is 1.2%

• Russian regions with highest alcohol-related mortality have been named

• Ministry of Finance promises not to raise prices on vodka in the year of presidential elections

• Smoking among adolescents has decreased almost threefold

• Ministry of Health supports ban on smoking near the entrances of residential buildings

• Russians have begun dying less often from heart disease

• Ministry of Health Head urges that more attention be paid to the “juvenescence” of stroke

• Leading causes of death in Moscow are cardiovascular diseases and cancer

• Ministry of Health announces reduction of mortality from pneumonia

• Flu epidemic will come to Russia in November

• State Duma Committee does not support bill to remove abortion from the Mandatory Health Insurance system

• Golodets calls for solving the problem of how to treat seriously ill children at home

• 65% of pensioners can’t afford drugs due to high cost

• Medvedev expands list of vital medicines for 2018

• Is undeveloped medicine one of the main reasons for migration from the Far Eastern Federal District?

• Electronic medical cards will be kept on state services portal

• Moscow enters top 5 in ranking of safest megacities for women

World news

• The population of Ukraine is 42,444,000 people

• The population of Armenia will fall to 2.5 million by 2035

• The cause of famine on Earth is high fertility

• Italy: a country of the elderly

• Ukraine is obliged to conduct a population census until 2020

• The total fortune of 2,500 billionaires is comparable to the total GDP of 150 countries

• Residence tax abolished for 80% of families living in France

• Average pension in Ukraine after reform comes to $85

• Germany pays pensions to nearly two million citizens abroad

• Austria may begin registering same-sex marriages as early as next year

• Constitutional Court of Lithuania declares dual citizenship unconstitutional

• Canada announces conditions for introduction of visa-free regime with Ukraine

• USA to strengthen entry checks for citizens of 11 countries

• In the USA the number of immigrants has reached 43.7 million

• Kirgizia global leader in World Bank rating of countries by migrant remittances

• France intents to tighten control over migrants

• Poland refuses to meet European refugee quotas due to large influx of Ukrainians

• Israel receives right to fast-track denial of refugee status to Ukrainians

• Canada imposes ban on wearing a burqa

• WHO announces the number of children and adolescents suffering from obesity

• The fight against obesity will cost the world economy a trillion dollars annually

• The number of abortions in Belarus has decreased six-fold since 2000

• Air pollution is the cause of more than half a million premature deaths in Europe annually

• One fifth of older Europeans will be disabled by 2047

• The health of Americans has worsened

• Antibiotics becoming impotent in the fight against disease

• South Korea passes law on the right of terminally ill patients to “death with dignity”

• Colombia to allow euthanasia for minors

The newspapers write about…

• “Nezavisimaya Gazeta” on demographic aging

• “Vedomosti” and “Polit.ru” on work experience and retirement age

• “UralInformbyuro” on AIDS sufferers who do not receive treatment

• “Neue Zurcher Zeitung” on AIDS in Russia

• “Rossiyskaya Gazeta” on reduced mortality from noncommunicable pulmonary diseases

• “Izvestiya” on electronic medical cards

• “Polit.ru” on citizens co-financing health care services

• “Rossiyskaya Gazeta” on reference countries for prices on generic medicines

• “Izvestiya” on personalized medicines

• “Forbes” on gene therapy against cancer

• “Atlantico” on the plague in Madagascar

• “Novye Izvestiya” on alcohol abuse in the USSR

• “Rossiyskaya Gazeta” on reducing alcohol abuse in rural areas

• “Izvestiya” on the regional picture of alcohol-related mortality

• “RBK” on counteracting smoking

• “UNIAN” on Ukraine’s demographic problems

• “Russkaya Germaniya” on refugee limit for Germany

• “Sasapost” on female refugees as spouses and partners with no rights

• “L’Espresso” on migration and organ donation

• “The New Republic” on surrogate motherhood in the US for Chinese citizens

• “Foreign Policy” on how the West is to blame for the fall of Russian fertility

• “TASS” on “gifts for the newborn”

• “Moskovskiy Komsomolets” on marriage and wedding ceremonies

• “Berlingske” on the marriage market in China

• “Radio Svobody” on male loneliness

• “The Village” on a draft law on equality of the sexes

• “Snob” on middle class expenses in Russia and the USA

• “Nauchnaya Rossiya” on the Valentey Memorial Conference

Read books and magazines

• International migration outlook 2017

• Demographic Education and Population Studies in Universities (on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the Department of Population Studies)

• The Russian economy in 2016

• Demographic Yearbook of the Kirgiz Republic: 2012-2016

• Resources and activities of medical organizations with a dermato-venereological profile. The incidence of sexually transmitted infections, contagious skin diseases and skin diseases in 2015-2016

• Through the pages of the journals “Problemy sotsialnoy gigieny, zdravookhraneniya i istorii meditsiny” ("Problems of social hygiene, health care and the history of medicine") and “Mirovaya ekonomika i mezhdunarodnye otnosheniya” ("World economy and international relations")

• Contents of the “Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies”

Demographic digest

• Does religion matter to corruption? Evidence from China

• Who in Europe works beyond the state pension age and under what conditions? Results from SHARE

• BONUS: The unlimited territory of acquaintances

Profession: researcher

• Demographic Education and Population Studies in Universities. International Conference The IX-th Valentey Readings

• Demographic results of 2016. Session of the Demographic Section of the Central House of Scientists of the Russian Academy of Sciences

• Migration: new trends and destinations. International Conference at the Higher School of Economics