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World Demographic barometer

Reproductive health policy in regions and countries of the world

• Introduction

• Prevention of maternal and child mortality

• Family planning: an integral part of the protection of reproductive health

• The level of teenage pregnancies remains high in many countries

• Unsafe abortion is one of the main causes of maternal mortality

In the vastness of Russia

• Government to allocate 5.3 trillion rubles for healthcare and demography

• Fertility in St. Petersburg and Leningrad region continues to decline

• Chechnya becomes only subject of Russian Federation with growth in fertility

• By 2020 Chechnya will be the region with the highest fertility

• Putin gives orders to stimulate fertility and the influx of people into the Far Eastern Federal District

• The number of marriages in Russia over past 10 years is down by 17%

• As of October 1 you can plan your wedding a year in advance

• Human Rights Council criticizes increase in retirement age

• In All-Russian People’s Front, talk of three conditions for successful pension reform

• Pension Fund will spend a quarter of a billion rubles on advertising

• Rosstat reports increase in average salary in Russia

• Pension Fund has paid out 137 billion rubles in maternity capital this year

• More than half of Russians want to work after retiring

• About 80% of early retirees continue working after reaching retirement age

• Medvedev does not rule out criminal punishment for firing pre-retirees

• Ministry of Labor reports on need to reduce the number of labor migrants due to pension reform

• In Russia, increased duties on foreign travel passports and driver’s licenses

• Acquisition of Russian citizenship to be simplified for settlers from countries with “regime change”

• Russia toughens rules for registering migrants

• New law on registering migrants will not be retroactive

• Russia removes 7,000 Kirgiz migrants from blacklist

• Almost 86,000 new cases of HIV diagnosed in Russia in 2017

• Urals named leading region in Russia for the spread of HIV

• Alcohol is the main cause of high mortality of men in Russia

• Are non-working pensioners prone to drunkenness and depression?

• Violators of no-smoking law fined 70 million rubles over first six months

• Ministry of Health names the most common types of cancer in women and men in Russia

• The number of abortions among adolescents has declined sevenfold over 10 years

• Ministry of Health has not banned abortion within the framework of the “Give me life” initiative

• In Russia, a growing number of overweight teens

World news

• The population of Ukraine is rapidly shrinking

• The urban population of Kazakhstan has increased by 1% over 6 months

• Belarusian women being urged to have 3-4 children

• Demographer announces growth in fertility in Latvia

• In Estonia, more than half of children are born out of wedlock

• Countries with a grave demographic situation have been named

• Japan to raise conscription age for military personnel

• Planet’s oldest person dies in Japan

• Vienna one of most comfortable cities in world

• Is the economy of Ukraine growing more slowly because of Ukrainian migrants?

• Poland prefers Ukrainian migrants

• Most remittances from Poland are sent by Ukrainian migrants

• Australia wants to “close” its metropolitan areas to skilled migrant workers

• Europe needs an equitable system for distributing migrants

• Berlin and Madrid agree on return of illegal migrants to Spain

• Spanish government will spend €30 million due to the influx of migrants

• Czech Republic will allocate one million euros to Bosnia and Herzegovina to control migration

• Brazil Supreme Court forbids halting entry of migrants into country

• Court orders US administration to resume program for protection of migrant children

• US senators demand complete information about separated families of migrants

• More than 31,000 illegal immigrants arrested in July on US border

• Kirgiz citizens complaining of non-payment of salaries receive about 37 million rubles

• In first half of year 459 coffins arrived in Tajikistan from abroad

• Calls in France to increase spending on fight against HIV

• Will mortality from heat-wave grow hundreds of times by 2080?

• Do more than half of pregnancies end in miscarriage?

• Childbirth in the US is more dangerous than in other developed countries

• Uzbekistan plans to legalize surrogate motherhood

• WHO warns of increase in the number of cases of Ebola fever in the Congo

• Elton John criticizes Eastern Europe and Russia for homophobia

The newspapers write about..

• “Forbes”, “Vedomosti”, “News.ru” and “Kommersant” on pension reform

• “Forbes” and “RBK” on pension myths

• “RBK”, “Daily Storm” and “Kommersant” on pensions

• “Russkaya Sluzhba BBC”, “Gazeta.Ru” and “Novaya Gazeta” on abolishing pensions

• “PolitEkspert” on ways to retire early

• “Lenta.ru” on Soviet pensions

• “Vedomosti” on intergenerational transfers

• “Snob” on the feeling of age and aging

• “Kommersant” on the aging of Japan

• “Forbes” on IVF and surrogate motherhood

• “REGNUM”, “Kommersant” and “Wonderzine” on attitudes to abortion

• “Forbes” on balancing career and family

• “Onliner.by” on VIP maternity hospitals in Belarus

• “Forbes” on the demographic crisis

• “Novye Izvestiya” on marriage contracts

• “Rossiyskaya Gazeta” on a conference of the Head Office of the Ministry of Internal Affairs

• “Novaya Gazeta” on changes in the registering of migrants

• “Novaya Gazeta” on a Kirghiz Tula village

• “Pravda.ru” on illegal migrants

• “Rossiyskaya Gazeta” on the problems of compatriots and migrants

• “Obozrevatel” on Ukrainian labor migrants

• “Novaya Gazeta” on the migration mafia in Europe

• “Project Syndicate”, “Ekho Kavkaza” and “Tagesspiegel” on the migration crisis

• “Nezavisimaya Gazeta” on Russia’s place in the Islamic world

• “Lenta.ru”, “FAN” and “Forbes” on alcohol consumption

• “iq.hse.ru” on smoking in Russia

• “Wonderzine” on chronic illnesses

• “Forbes” on treating old age

• “Rossiyskaya Gazeta” on obesity

• “RBK”, “Vedomosti” on HIV

• “Fontanka.ru” on disabilities in Chechnya

• “The Conversation” on the influence of heat on health

• “Gazeta.Ru” on mortality in road traffic accidents

• “Aeon Magazine” on the commercialization of healthcare

• “Forbes” on clinics of the future

• “Forbes” on medical tourism

• “Forbes” and “Novye Izvestiya” on regional (non)development

• “Helsingin Sanomat” and “Kauppalehti” on the Russian economy

• “Forbes” and “Vedomosti” on the labor market for people of pre-retirement age

• “EurasiaNet” on the labor market for people with disabilities

• “Vedomosti” on unemployment benefits

• “iq.hse.ru” on an age map of Europeans

• “Forbes” on gender identity

• “EurasiaNeet” on LGBT in Russia

• “Forbes Woman” on images of male sexuality

Read books and magazines

• Report on the results of monitoring the effectiveness of the implementation of the national strategy for children for 2012-2017. Volume 1

• Report on the results of monitoring the effectiveness of the implementation of the national strategy for children for 2012-2017. Volume 2

• Georgia. Health Systems in Transition.

• Population and social indicators of the CIS countries and selected countries 2014-2017

• 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 “Sotsialnye aspekty zdorovya naseleniya” ("Social Aspects of Population Health") and “Akusherstvo i ginekologiya” ("Obstetrics and Gynecology")

• Contents of the journal “Demographic Research”

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