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Current issue:

Detailing the losses of the Great Patriotic War

• What do we know about the losses?

• In no country have wartime casualties led to such a gender imbalance as in the USSR

• The fate of the draft age

• Mortality on both sides of the front

• Migration as a component of the losses

• Links to current issue

• Topics of previous issues

Eurasian demographic barometer

• 2010 census round in the CIS: changes in the national and age composition

• As of June 1 2013 96% of the world population and 72% of the CIS population have been enumerated in the census

• The percentage of  titular nationality is growing in all CIS countries except Russia

• Signs of an aging population are observed in all CIS countries, but the degrees of aging are quite different

• In five of the six CIS countries women outnumber men, but in Tajikistan more men have been counted in the census

• Mortality at older ages remains relatively high in CIS countries

Through the eyes of analysts

• On the scale of human losses by the USSR in the Great Patriotic War (in search of the truth)

• The Generals’ lies

• Once more on the losses in the Great Patriotic War: a word to historians on demography

• The “statistical maze”.  The total number of Soviet prisoners of war and the scale of their mortality

• An assessment of the dynamics and regional differentiation of demographic indicators of Russia over the last 150 years

Take care of women!

• How many infertile couples are there in the world?

• Infertility in Russia

In the vastness of Russia

• Golodets reiterates that no raising of the retirement age is planned

• The program to provide housing for young people may be continued beyond 2015

• Russians have begun adopting children more often

• State Duma bans foreign adoptions by same-sex couples

• Government to allocate 9 billion rubles for creation of an “Accessible Environment” for the disabled

• Draft law on worker training is approved by the Ministry of Education

• FMS plans to create a register of Russian passports

• A simplified procedure to obtain Russian citizenship for members of the state resettlement program

• Foreign workers must be adapted to life in Russia

• For migrants from Mongolia, an easing of conditions for labor migration to Russia

• FMS has forbidden entry to Russia to over 100 thousand foreign offenders

• State Duma forbids entry to foreigners who have not paid fines

• No one is dealing with internal migration in Russia

• Vorobyev intends to do away with illegal immigrants in the Moscow region

• Plans to build a center in the Moscow region for illegal migrants awaiting deportation from Russia

• In 2013 over 75 thousand violations of immigration law were uncovered in Moscow

• Head of Federal Migration Service in Moscow is against the introduction of bills of exchange for migrant workers

• Without crimes committed by migrants, would Moscow be the most peaceful city?

• The head of the Council of Muftis of Russia has called for legislative protection of migrants’ rights

• To fight HIV Russia will allocate $600 million

• State Duma wants to make life easier for smokers

• One third of Russia’s inmates are in prison for drug-related crimes

• Will the Federal Drug Control Service be entitled to conduct medical examinations of citizens?

• Matviyenko proposes to cancel annual medical examinations of disabled children

Eurasian Panorama

• Kazakhstan’s population has exceeded the 17 million mark

• The population of Ukraine has decreased by 17 thousand people in a month

• Astana population has reached 778 thousand people

• The natural decrease of the population of Belarus went down from January through April

• Ukraine in second place in the world in terms of crude death rate

• Russia and Belarus are in the lead in terms of the marriage rate within the developed world

• The divorce rate in Ukraine has reached 61%

• Bill regarding the raising of the pension age for women is once more sent to Nazarbayev for signature

• Average pension in Belarus in May was Br1898 thousand

• Incomes of the population of Tajikistan have increased by 11.7%

• Azerbaijan rejects classical minimum wage

• Yanukovich has equalized the rights of single fathers and single mothers

• In Belarus, no plan to change holiday duration

• Labor productivity in Azerbaijan is one of the lowest in the region

• Unemployment in Kazakhstan in May was 5.3%

• 24 thousand Georgian citizens illegally possess citizenship of another country

• Ukrainians are in first place for number of EU residence permits received

• Moldova will introduce penalties for aliens entering through Transnistria

• Uzbekistan and Tajikistan are CIS leaders in terms of money transfers from Russia

• Kazakhstan Parliament approves law on combating human trafficking

• Belarus to deprive drunk drivers of their cars

• Kazakhstan Ministry of Health notes sharp rise in morbidity of schoolchildren

World News

• Population size of the Earth next month will be 7.2 billion people

• Mortality of white population in U.S. exceeds fertility for the first time

• In Latvia, infant mortality is not going down

• One-third of Turkey’s population lives below the poverty line

• By the end of 2013 half the population of Syria will be in need of aid

• Germany to allocate an extra 200 million euros to help Syrian refugees

• The smallest pensions in Latvia to rise slightly starting in October

• Is sponging abloom in Europe?

• 10.5 million children in the world are working as domestics in private homes

• Lithuania signs Convention on the prevention of violence against women in the family

• Military service to be obligatory for Norwegian women starting in 2015

• Unemployment rate in Latvia at a record low

• Lithuanian authorities are implementing “Global Lithuania” program

• Poland overtakes Italy and the Czech Republic in number of Ukrainian migrants

• Estonian nurses are leaving the country en masse

• The number of Syrian refugees in Turkey has reached half a million

• 20 refugees from North Korea are transported to South Korea through Laos

• The death toll in Syria during the conflict has reached 93 thousand people

• The number of coronavirus victims in Saudi Arabia has risen to 32

• Not enough beds for women giving birth in British hospitals

• Britain urges countries of the G-8 to limit antibiotics

• Restless leg syndrome shortens men’s lives

• New method for safe IVF has given its first baby

• In Japan, the world’s first national stem cell bank

• Oldest person on planet dies in Japan

The newspapers write about…

• “Slon.ru” on the world population in 2100

• “Slon.ru” on demographic and immigration problems of Russia

• “Rossiyskaya Gazeta” on the lowering of maternal mortality in Russia

• “Moskovski Komsomolets” on mortality at the working age

• “Polityka” on the family

• “Polit.ru” on the family in Russia

• “The Atlantic on the role of fathers in raising children

• “Aeon Magazine” on the “balinghou”  generation  

• “Rossiyskaya Gazeta” on the “ancestors’” capital

• “Mainichi” on fertility in Japan

• “Slon.ru” on fertility among “white” Americans

• “Tv7.md” on fertility in Moldova

• “Zerkalo” on fertility in Azerbaijan

• “Zerkalo” on abortion in Azerbaijan

• “Vremya” on problems of prenatal diagnosis in Kazakhstan

• “Tv7.md” on the healthcare system in Finland

• “Izvestiya” on alcohol consumption in Russia

• “Daily Mail” on alcohol consumption in China

• “Gazeta.ru” on future pension supplements

• “Atlantico” on the decline of the middle class

• “Dengi” on the consumer behavior of Russians

• “Paruskg.info” on the “hidden hunger in Kirgizia”

• “Kommersant” and “Vedomosti” on migration and the economy in OECD countries

• “Nezavisimaya Gazeta” on problems of migration in Russia

• “Rossiyskaya Gazeta” on migrants in Russia

• “Slon.ru” on labor migration and the economy

• “Novye Izvestiya” on resettling compatriots back in Russia

• “Kommersant” on “bills of exchange” for migrants

• “Trud” on confinement centers for illegal migrants

• “Nezavisimaya Gazeta” on migration problems of Russia through the eyes of the leader of the migrants’ labor union

• “Paruskg.info” on the anticipated reduction in the number of Russians in Kirgizia

• “Novye Izvestiya” on the tightening of Switzerland’s immigration policy

• “Slon.ru” on luring Sephardim to Portugal

• “Moldavskie Vedomosti” on emigration from Romania

• “Slon.ru” on “diversity” in the workforce

• “Vedomosti” on emigration and dying out

• “Nezavisimaya Gazeta” on migration as a conflictological problem

• “NG-Religii” on Islam in Russian cities

• “Slon.ru” on different “Russias”

• “Gazeta.ru” on Mizulina and the “anti-gay law”

Read books and magazines

• The Demographic Encyclopedia

• The family and childbearing in Russia: categories of parental awareness

• Medico-demographic approaches to assessing longevity

• Creating an institutional and infrastructural environment for the management of migration flows on the basis of a public-private partnership

• Demographic Yearbok 2011

• Through the pages of the magazines “Zdravookhranenie Rossiyskoy Federatsii” (“Healthcare in the Russian Federation”) and “Ekologia cheloveka” (“Human ecology”)

• Content of the magazine “Population”

Profession: researcher

• The first-ever survey of reproductive health in Russia

• Old boundaries and new opportunities: the city as a frontier zone.  Lecture by Saskia Sassen

• Anniversaries of Leonhard Euler and Vladimir Vladislavovich Payevsky

• A.N. Krylov.  Leonhard Euler

• V.V. Paevsky.  The demographic works of Leonard Euler

New in the reading room

• E.M. Andreev, L.E. Darsky, T.L. Kharkova.  The population of the Soviet Union: 1922-1991

Satirical articles

• Check your neighbor’s gender!

Student page

• On the Master’s program in Demography

• Who is ready to give birth for money?   A meeting of the Laboratory for Socio-demographic Policy and the student society “Demographer”