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European demographic barometer

Asylum seekers in the EU-28, 2018

• The number of first-time applicants for asylum in the EU-28 countries decreased in 2018 to 586 thousand

• Nearly two thirds of those who first applied for asylum in the EU-28 are men, of whom half are between the ages of 18 and 34

• About 20 thousand first-time applicants for asylum in the EU-28 in 2018 (3.4%) are minors traveling without an adult

• EU-28 countries provided international protection to over 333 thousand asylum seekers in 2018

• The number of illegal immigrants discovered in the EU-28 has decreased 3.5 times compared with 2015

Take care of women!

• UNFPA: a woman has the right to decide when and how many children to have

• New WHO study: Europe fights obesity in children; experts confirm that breastfeeding protects children from obesity

• Assisted Reproductive Technologies in the USA

In the vastness of Russia

• Fertility in Russia down by 9.1% in first quarter

• Mortality in first quarter down by 3%

• Infant mortality in Russia decreased by 15.7%

• Women having children later

• The government publishes plan to reduce mortality in Russia

• Russia to have unified population register

• Increase of retirement age canceled for Vepsians

• Putin approves criteria for assessing the effectiveness of governors

• A healthy lifestyle requires a high salary

• Putin orders the development of sports to be included in the national projects

• Paper certificates for maternity capital may be abolished

• Proposal in Federation Council to extend maternity capital program

• Medvedev orders work schedules for kindergartens and schools to be made more flexible

• Will parents who have still not gotten places in kindergartens receive compensation?

• St. Petersburg will pay for nanny for families with twins

• Experts have compiled list of new professions in Russia

• Putin simplifies procedure for obtaining citizenship for several categories of foreigners.

• Russia intends to simplify the acquisition of citizenship for specialists

• Did 86% of Donbass residents want to get a Russian passport?

• Residents of Donbass will be paid pensions after moving to Russia

• In terms of the number of millionaire emigrants, Russia is second only to China.

• Restrictions on remittances from Russia will not affect migrants from Kirgizia

• Ministry of Health will increase coverage of antiretroviral therapy for those with HIV

• In Russia, 25% of people with HIV do not know about their disease

• Ministry of Health proposes to prohibit the dissemination of information denying the existence of HIV

• High mortality at home is recorded throughout Russia

• Rospotrebnadzor tells of results of additional vaccination against measles

• WHO praises Russian system of standardization and centralization in the treatment of pediatric oncology

• Russia to have unified register of oncological diseases

• Medvedev orders for bonuses to be given doctors for diagnosing cancer

• In 2017, almost 30% of children in Russia were born with a cesarean section

• Russia to simplify procedure for recognition of disability

World News

• Israeli population exceeds 9 million for first time ever

• Japan sets record low for number of children under 15

• In 2018 more than 32 thousand children were born in Moldova

• Gallup names world’s happiest and saddest countries

• Kazakhstan plans to strengthen support for internal migration

• Germany refuses to prohibit citizenship for polygamists

• Donbass residents becoming Russian citizens may be deprived of Ukrainian pensions

• Tourists from Russia with a good visa history will get Schengen visa more easily

• The most attractive countries for emigrants from Germany are Switzerland, Austria and the UK

• Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan mutually improve conditions for migrant workers

• Will a million Uzbeks leave to work in the UAE?

• Migration of Ukrainians to EU countries continues to grow

• Shares of remittances to Moldova from Russia and Israel are almost equal

• Trump tightens migrant asylum rules

• Germany launches pilot project for integrating refugees

• Migrants not bringing infectious diseases to Italy

• Victims of forced sterilization in Japan to receive compensation

• More than 900 people have died due to Ebola hemorrhagic fever in Congo

• UNICEF names cause of measles outbreaks around the world

• WHO has developed global strategy to reduce mortality from snake bites

• In the Netherlands, the number of cyclists killed in traffic accidents has for the first time exceeded the number of motorists

• Amsterdam authorities to ban gasoline and diesel cars by 2030

• Can 10 minutes of sports a week save you from death?

• One in eight 26-year-old men has not had sex

• Doctor’s coats turn out to be breeding grounds for bacteria

• By 2070 there will be more dead people on Facebook than living

The newspapers write about…

• Rosbalt, Osrodek Studiow Wschodnich, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Aktuality, REGNUM, Novaya Gazeta and The Atlantic on issuing passports to residents of Ukraine

• Novaya Gazeta on compatriots in Russia

• Gazeta.ru on the decrease in migration growth

• Xinhua on education migration

• Ekho Kavkaza on migration in Georgia

• Vestnik Kavkaza on refugees

• Kommersant and REGNUM on criteria for evaluating governors

• Izvestiya on the maternity capital

• The Village and Moskovsky Komsomolets on large families

• FederalPress on the shortage of schools and kindergartens

• Gazeta.Ru and Rossiyskaya Gazeta on state medical examinations

• TASS and IQ on increasing life expectancy

• IQ on HIV

• Izvestiya and Lenta.ru on obesity and healthy nutrition

• Moskovskiy Komsomolets on child injuries

• IQ twice and Suomen Kuvalehti on inequality

• FUTURIST and Forbes on the future of the nation

• Forbes on the theory of generations

• Forbes on automation

• Svobodnaya Pressa on the shrinking population of Ukraine

• Argumenty i Fakty on the population of China

• The New York Times on the attractiveness of Lake Baikal for the Chinese

• Lenta.ru on gender equality

• Rossiyskaya Gazeta and Raseef22 on violence

• Videnskab on abstinence

• News.ru on Germany’s Christians

Read books and magazines

• Urban population in Western Siberia in the 1960s–1980s: a historical demographic study

• Global status report on alcohol and health 2018

• Integration of foreign cultural migrants: intercultural prospects

• Social Europe and the European Union's social policy

• Can people afford to pay for health care? New evidence on financial protection in Europe

• Through the pages of the journals Demograficheskoye Obozreniye (Demographic Review) and Regionalnye Issledovaniya (Regional Studies)

• Contents of the Journal of Population Economics

Profession: researcher

• Happy 85^th birthday to Yevgeny Grigorievich Yasin!

• Happy birthday to Lyudmila Efimovna Tikhonova!

• Vladimir Izyavich Mukomel turns 70

• Vladimir Nikolaevich Arkhangelsky turns 65

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