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Current topic: Family policy in Japan

• The sharp drop in fertility and its consequences

• Milestones of family policy

• Labor market doesn’t let family policy “break loose”

• Social costs and the timeliness of demographic measures in Japan

• Features of Japanese fertility

• Lack of balance between work and personal life as a deterrent to fertility

• Social patterns and traditions as a brake on economic development

• Links to current topic

• Topics of previous  issues

Russian demographic barometer

Russia: Demographic results of 2013 (part II)

• In 2013, the number of deaths continued to decline, reaching 1,878,000, or 13.1 per 1,000 people

• Life expectancy, according to preliminary estimates, has increased to 70.7 years

• Mortality from cardiovascular diseases and external causes has continued to decrease, but mortality from respiratory diseases has increased

• Mortality from all external causes has decreased by 4.2 %, but from road accidents by only 0.7 %

• After an increase in 2012, infant mortality declined again, to 8.2 ‰

Through the eyes of the analysts

• Where the center of global Christianity is shifting to

• Decline in fertility in countries of the South: the politics around the policy

• Fans and fanatics

• Iran’s social policy in the Islamic context

• Oil, fertility and emigration in the Arab world

• The identity of cultural minorities and the future of European policy

Polls: Q&A

• Women politicians will save the world

• Women in Politics: Pros and Cons

• Do we need women in high positions?

• Woman as leader

• A woman’s choice: career or family?

In the vastness of Russia

• No plan for State to pay mothers for raising their children

• Russians think a woman should put family before career

• Inflation in Russia in March is expected to reach 0.8%

• Around 50% of Russians have opted for the funded pension

• Co-financed pension program could be reserved for government employees

• Around 7-8 million Russians work illegally

• Proposal in State Duma to set minimum insurance premiums for employers

• State Duma limits size of golden parachutes for top managers of state corporations

• Government to evaluate effectiveness of implementation of the national strategy for children and the prospects for its extension

• Medvedev will try to extend the “Accessible Environment” program

• Ministry of Labor proposes to amend more than 20 laws to improve services for disabled people

• Will life in Russia’s Far East be competitive with life in its center?

• Ministry of Education recommends easing adoption rules for persons with criminal records

• Russia has no issues with  French adoption agencies

• Russian-Spanish agreement on adoption is in the works

• Mothers in business will be eligible for grants of up to 400 thousand rubles

• Native Russian speakers will be able to receive Russian citizenship within three months

• Foreign investors and graduates of Russian universities will be fast-tracked for Russian citizenship

• FMS proposes giving Muscovites employment priority in the capital

• Authorities decide to create image of “positive migrant” in Russia

• Bill in the works to exempt refugees from obtaining a work permit

• FMS to check high-security locations in Moscow for the presence of illegal migrants

• Russia to provide decent conditions of confinement for migrants awaiting deportation

• Russians drinking less, State Duma told

• Modernization of health care system’s fixed assets would cost over 1 trillion rubles

• 47% of Russians are satisfied with doctors’ quality of work

Eurasian panorama

• Armenia records lowest rates of maternal and infant mortality in the last 20 years

• Proposal to fine residents of Moldova for refusing to participate in the census

• In Moldova, a small increase in the economically active population

• Kazakhstan’s oldest woman lives in the Jambul region

• Ukrainian government may cut pensions of working pensioners

• Moldovan government approves 6.5% indexation of pensions as of April 1

• Kazakhstan’s Parliament will consider amendments on increasing social payments

• In Azerbaijan, employment record books will be abolished before year-end

• Unemployment in Kazakhstan in February remained unchanged at 5.2%

• Around 22 thousand Ukrainians have inquired into receiving Russian citizenship

• Residents of Crimea to receive Russian passports free of charge

• Will dual citizenship be common in the Crimea?

• Moldavia simplifies the replacement of Soviet passports with new IDs

• Ukraine removes immigration restrictions for citizens of Moldova

• Around 220 thousand citizens of Armenia have been banned entry to Russia

• In 2013 the number of labor migrants from Kirgizia to Russia grew by 113,000

• In 2013 remittances to Transdniestria from abroad reached $211.1 million

• Ukraine’s Foreign Ministry denies reports on refugees from Ukraine in Russia

• There is no mass exodus of Azerbaijanis from the Crimea

• Protection of national minorities in Ukraine should be a priority

• Ukraine’s Verkhovna Rada is preparing new law on languages

• Russia has allocated 465 free university places for citizens of Kirgizia

• Since November 30, 2013 102 persons have died in Ukraine as a result of protests

• Astana begins free vaccination of girls against human papillomavirus

• Number of prison inmates in Kazakhstan has decreased by 2.5 times compared with the 1980s

• Kazakhstan to forbid capital punishment for persons over 63 years of age

World news

• In a number of regions of Latvia fertility has fallen dramatically

• The oldest person on planet turns 116

• 65% of Estonia’s residents can’t save any of their salary

• In 2013 Spain’s public debt reached a record high

• Singapore: the world’s most expensive city

• Norway: the best place for women to make a career

• Should London’s social services take children away from radical Muslims?

• Italy gets ban on adoptions from Belarus lifted

• Might Latvia stop issuing residence permits in exchange for investments?

• Unemployment rising in Estonia for the fifth month in a row

• In Lithuania unemployment continues to go down

• Will Russia give pensions to non-citizens in Latvia?

• 37% of the rich in the CIS are planning to move to the West

• U.S. to reconsider rules for deporting illegal immigrants

• Syrians may soon become the largest group of refugees in the world

• Syrian refugee camp in Jordan will accommodate 130,000 people

• Lithuania creating comfortable conditions for asylum-seekers

• Haitians demanding compensation for cholera epidemic

• Global warming is leading to the spread of malaria in new regions of Africa

• Nearly every third woman in EU is becoming a victim of violence

• Women are less prone to autism

• Mayors of 14 cities in France have complained to the ECHR, protesting against gay marriage

• Texas court rules unconstitutional ban on gay marriage

• Around a million Britons are direct descendants of the Vikings

The newspapers write about

• “Rossiyskaya gazeta – Nedelya” on social problems of Russia

• “Kommersant-Vlast” on the Russian government’s social obligations

• “Novye izvestiya” on the attitude of Russian employers to women on maternity leave

• “Liter.kz” on the demographic policy of Kazakhstan and Singapore

• “Kommersant-Vlast” on the demographic situation in post-Soviet space

• “Novye izvestiya” and “Kommersant” on simplified Russian citizenship

• “Kommersant” on the integration of migrants

• “Rossiyskaya gazeta” on patents for employees of legal entities

• “Nezavisimaya gazeta” on an “alternative” migration policy

• “Slon.ru” on how migrants frighten Russians

• “Paruskg.info” on migration from Kirgizia to Russia

• “Slovo.kg” on the problems of migrants from Kirgizia

• “Deutsche Welle” on migrants from Africa and Spain

• “Nezavisimaya gazeta” and “Rossiyskaya Biznes-gazeta” on stimulating internal migration

• “Interfaks”, “Kommersant”, “Polit.ru”, “Gazeta.ru” and “Rossiyskaya gazeta” on ‘refugees’ from Ukraine

• “Izvestia.com.ua” on Ukrainian migrant workers

• “Le Figaro” on Crimean Tatars

• “Vedomosti” on Ukraine and cooperation with compatriots

• “FINANCE.UA” on Ukraine’s pension problems

• “Vedomosti” on coaching services for the elderly

• “Den” on the situation of women in Ukraine

• “Gundogar.org” on 40 manats for Turkmen women

• “Novye izvestiya” on the problems of monotowns

• “Kommersant’Vlast” on global experience in reviving monotowns

• “Kommersant” on new passport information fields

• “Novye izvestiya” on the growth of religiosity against the background of moral decline

• “Kommersant” on alcohol breath tests for administrative offenders

• “Rossiyskaya gazeta” on infertility and compulsory medical insurance

• “Daily Mail” on children born from three parents in the UK

• “FINANCE.UA” on the costs of global warming

Read books and magazines

• The demographic development of the Russian-Belarusian borderland in conditions of urbanization (from the middle of the 20^th to the beginning of the 21^st century)

• Global Tuberculosis Report 2013

• Prevention and control of communicable diseases in the European region: progress report

• In the shadow of regulation: the informality of the Russian labor market

• The population of Ukraine 2012

• Through the pages of the journals “Zdravookhranenie Rossiyskoy Federatsii” (“Health Care of the Russian Federation”) and “Profilakticheskaya Meditsina” (“Preventive Medicine”)

• Contents of the journal “Demography”

Profession: researcher

• 150 years since the birth of Alexander Abramovich Kaufman

• Letter of Anatoly Ivanovich Romanyuk

• Irina Igorevna Shurygina passes away

From the history of demographic thought

Plutarch.  Comparative biographies.

• Citizens and foreigners through the eyes of Plutarch and his characters

• Illness and death through the eyes of Plutarch and his characters

New in the reading room

• A.A. Kaufman.  Resettlement and colonization

• Two articles by A.A. Kaufman

Students’ page

• International spring school on demography

• Selected essays.  Migration flows from Latin America to Japan: Features and prospects.

• Master’s student demographers in the press