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Where Australians come from
New immigrants settle in large cities
“European” face of immigrants has changed to an “Asian” one
Sex/age profile of those born abroad
“Pedigrees” of Australians
The language spoken at home
Adherents of non-Christian faiths on the rise
Australians speaking Russian at home
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Topics of previous issues
Morbidity in Russia, 2011-2012
2000-2011 showed an increase in the long-term growth trend
of morbidity: the number of recorded cases of disease increased
by 7%
In 2012, the incidence of acute intestinal infections increased
by 4%, and acute upper respiratory tract infections decreased by
8%
In 2012, the number of cases of TB decreased by 5%, while
that of diseases caused by HIV increased by 12.5%
The number of persons registered with a diagnosis of alcoholism
and alcoholic psychosis, drug addiction and substance abuse, continued
to decline in 2011
The number of traffic accident victims increased in 2011-2012
Multiculturalism in Western Europe: beyond the rhetoric
Will the American “melting pot” survive?
Citizenship and immigration in liberal democracies: between
ideology and pragmatism
The role of ethnicity information in the fight against discrimination:
the experience of different countries
Far-right parties and immigration in Scandinavia
Ethnic and racial minorities in the USA: ideological orientation,
political preferences, electoral activeness
The North, social networks, and the “reverse diaspora”
A new appraisal of world contraception use
Natural population decline in Russia in January was 21.8
thousand people
Russia records steep fertility rise in January
The population of St. Petersburg is growing mainly due to
migration
Russia occupies next-to-last place in Europe for life expectancy
Life expectancy in the Far East is the lowest in Russia
Life expectancy in St. Petersburg will be 74.8 years by 2020
Experts explain cause of low male life expectancy in Russia
Medvedev calls for a fight against “gray” wages
Over 4.8 million Russians transferred their retirement savings
to non-state funds in 2012
Over 2.2 million Russians asked Pension Fund for the funded
part of their pension
Russians will be able to receive compensation for social
service expenses
State Duma passes law limiting disability benefits
Payment period for childcare benefits may be prolonged
Smaller peoples of Russia to receive 240 million rubles for
development
Around 50 thousand orphans in Russia will be provided with
homes by the end of the year
More children with living parents are ending up in orphanages
The structure of Russian orphanages not to change for now
Golodets calls for Russian employers not to conceal alimony
payers
State Duma submits bill on job quotas for university graduates
Over 14 thousand jobs for the disabled will be created over
3 years
Most of Russia’s disabled take one to three years to find
a job
State Duma submits bill banning discrimination in job-hiring
Children of international families will be able to receive
Russian citizenship without the consent of the foreign parent
Commission of Moscow City Council has not approved the bill
on simplified citizenship for compatriots
Medvedev changes the procedure for payments to compatriots
moving to Russia
In 2012 the number of compatriots arriving in the Voronezh
region grew eight times
In Kabardino-Balkaria, an increase in quota for temporary
residence permits
Ministry of Labor will decide on questions of medical and
social insurance for migrants in 2013
Will the construction of mosques protect migrants from radical
ideas?
The number of drunk drivers hitting people in crosswalks
rises by 40%
Onishchenko compares Russia to Zanzibar due to the large
number of smokers
In Russia, about eight million people use drugs
Most Russian women give birth with complications
The number of blood donors in Russia increases by 3.9%
The state of health of Russian citizens to be assessed with
the aid of a uniform index
Russians officially allowed to receive medical treatment
near their actual place of residence regardless of where they are
registered
Large families to be given expanded mandatory medical insurance
policies
Children need palliative care outreach services
Population size of Ukraine: 45,539,121 people
Population size of Moldova: 3559.5 thousand people
In Belarus 1000 men for every 1152 women
Demographers concerned about drop in life expectancy of Ukrainians
Residents of Kiev living longer and giving birth more often
Belarus rises to 50th place in world on Human
Development Index
Cash income per capita in Belarus 3 times higher than minimum
subsistence level
Minimum subsistence level in Abkhazia is 4675 rubles
Belarus has fourth highest salaries in CIS
President of Armenia promises much higher salaries and pensions
starting July 1
One in four Belarusian families sees improvement in their
economic condition in 2012
Kazakhstan plans to gradually increase retirement age for
women starting in 2014
Average pension at the end of 2012 was $220 in Belarus, $302
in Russia, and $184 in Ukraine
Basic pension will be transformed into a guaranteed minimum
pension in Kazakhstan
Armenia may increase minimal education requirement to 12
years
Armenia simplifies adoption procedure
The number of unemployed residents of Moldova decreased from
6.2% to 5.9%
Unemployment in Ukraine at 2.1%
The number of unemployed in Belarus decreased by 0.9% in
February
The unemployment rate in Kazakhstan was 5.5% in February
The unemployment rate in Azerbaijan is 5.2%
Half of Kirgizia citizens work illegally in Kazakhstan
Remittances from Russia to Uzbekistan increased by one third
Kirgizia is committed to developing the Kirgiz language
248 new cases of HIV-infection in Belarus in 2013
Moldova: European leader in alcohol consumption
Kazakhstan Ministry of Health bans smoking shisha in public
places
In Chisinau 600 new cases of tuberculosis every year
Unmet demand for contraception among the woman of Belarus
is 7%
World’s most prosperous countries are named
U.S. could lose title of world’s largest economy in 2016
In Israel, 98 men for every 100 women
Around 2% of Iran’s population are nomads
The proportion of Lithuanians in the Vilnius district has
increased by 4% over last ten years
Scotland to hold referendum on secession from the UK
The population of North Korea urgently needs international
aid
33% of the inhabitants of Lithuania are on the brink of poverty
Lithuania and Portugal experience greatest drop in employment
in the EU
Lithuanian Labor Market lacks flexibility
Germany to block the accession of Romania and Bulgaria to
the Schengen
Number of refugees from Syria reaches 1.15 million
Syrian refugees have begun to return home from Lebanon
In 2012 Lithuania registered 160 new cases of HIV-infection
In 2020 world traffic fatalities could reach 1.9 million
people
Germany to allow women to give birth under pseudonyms
Britain prepares to legalize the technology of a “3-parent
child”
High autumn fertility explained by winter peak in the quality
of sperm
Risk of autism linked to difficult childhood of mothers
March 15: World Sleep Day
Around 900 million people on planet lack access to clean
drinking water
The number of “polluter” countries in EU has decreased by
one third
In Estonia, signature are being gathered against the law
on same-sex couples living together
Royal prize for inventors awarded to creators of Internet
UN celebrates first International Happiness Day
“Rossiskaya Gazeta” on Russia’s demographic hole
“Belarus sevodnya” on demographic problems and population
policy in Belarus
“Moskovskie Novosti” on fertility in Moscow
“Vedomosti” on Russia’s visa dilemma
“Izvestiya” on possible easing of visa regime for foreign
specialists
“Rossiskaya Biznes-Gazeta” on guest-worker pilots
“Izvestiya” on procuring specialists for the military-industrial
sector
“Russki reporter” on the brain drain
“Novye Izvestiya” on revising the program to promote the
resettlement of compatriots
“Rossiskaya Gazeta” on migrants and crime
“Vecherni Bishkek” on the reaction to proposal to forbid
young women to leave Kirgizia
“Vedomosti” on social problems in Russia
“Vedomosti” on future challenges of social policy
“Aeon Magazine” on inequality in the U.S.
“Atlantico” on the benefits of inequality
“Novye Izvestiya” on the Russian labor market
“Izvestiya” on the possibility of forcing employers to hire
young specialists
“Slon.ru” on the pension problem in Russia
“Novye Izvestiya” on pension size
“Korrespondent” on aging in Germany
“Vedomosti” on elderly consumers
“Asahi Shimbun” on the “Satori generation”
“Atlantico” on upbringing in a traditional society
“Moskovskie Novosti” on child-centeredness
“Ogonyok” and “Opec.ru” on the problem of orphans in Russia
“Novaya Gazeta” on murdering babies in Russia
“Kommersant” on compensation for adoption in the Urals
“Novaya Gazeta” on the peculiarities of guardianship in some
Siberian regions
“Itogi” on lost children in the Caucasus
“Komsomolskaya Pravda” on fictitious births
“Kommersant” on YouTube and child suicide
“Deutsche Welle” on health and health care in Europe
“The Financial Times” on alcoholism and obesity
“Slon.ru” on health, mortality and why they vary
“Slon.ru” on how often the trains run, the ecology and traffic
accidents
“Time” on marriage and health
“La Republica” on same-sex divorce
“Slon.ru” on the vastness of Russia
“Slon.ru” on the emptying of Russia
“Liter.kz” on the population of Astana
“Chas” on the dynamics of population resettlement in Latvia
“Novye Izvestiya” on the shortage of executioners in Saudi
Arabia
“Itogi” on the upcoming supermen
“Vedomosti” on the demographic reason for the distortion
of Internet opinion polls
Migration and remittances during the global financial crisis
and beyond
The impact of social mobilization of migrant worker families
on the condition of households benefiting from the regional migration
program in Tajikistan
Indicators of immigrant integration: a pilot study
Gender approaches in shaping labor migration policy in the
Russian Federation: a peer review
Education for all and migration
Through the pages of the journals “Narodonaselenie” and “Gigiena
I sanitariya”
Contents of the “Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies”
Happy birthday to Sergei Yurevich Roshin
Life Orientation and reproductive behavior.
Meeting of the demographic section of the House of Scientists
Let’s protect our citizens from drunk drivers!
Masters program “Demography”: the view from within
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