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World demographic barometer

Global HIV epidemic: estimates and trends 2018, regional aspects

• Regional grouping of countries to study the HIV epidemic

• About 70% of HIV-infected people live in sub-Saharan Africa, but their share is gradually decreasing

• The number of new HIV infections continues to grow in Eastern Europe and Central Asia, as well as in the Middle East and North Africa

• The number of deaths due to AIDS-related diseases continues to rise in the Middle East and North Africa

• The proportion of HIV-infected people who know their HIV status and are receiving effective ART should be increased to 90%

Q&A

• Marriage norms

• Sale of alcohol: what is the optimal “age of consent”?

• How often women experience violence

• Immigration to Russia: a blessing or a curse?

In the vastness of Russia

• Head of Pension Fund tells of rapidly aging population of Russia

• Medvedev again urges paying attention to the demography of the Far East

• Russian regions with the highest mortality rates named

• Putin extends "freezing" of the funded part of the pension

• Chukotka pensioners have become the richest in Russia

• Starting in January 2019, Russian pensions will increase by a thousand rubles

• Russian pre-pensioners reminded of upcoming benefits

• 54% of ninth-graders in 2018 entered vocational schools

• Putin moves Far East capital to Vladivostok

• Sberbank starts collecting biometric customer data

• Ministry of Labor head confident that after age 45 you can find a new job

• The President will receive new powers to grant Russian citizenship

• In St. Petersburg, dissatisfaction with the results of organized recruitment of labor migrants

• Most people in Russia feel more negative than positive about migrants

• Mortality from alcohol poisoning decreased by 15.5% over nine months

• Will ban on sale of alcohol to Russians under 21 not affect their consumption?

• State Duma supports return of beer advertising

• Audit Chamber worried about situation with infant mortality

• Malnutrition causes half of all deaths

• Ministry of Health presents oncological map of Russia

• A person’s right to pain relief

• will be put into law for first time ever

• One third of Russians do not go to clinics

• Most paramedic obstetric facilities do not have the necessary equipment.

• Russia lacks 22,500 doctors of various specialties

• Will modern hepatitis C therapy be replaced by an obsolete one?

• Ministry of Health denies plans to cut spending on modern HIV drugs

• Russia will create a register of recipients of free drugs

• Almost a quarter of Russian women give birth with a caesarean section

• Ministry of Health has listed free types of medical care

• The number of prisoners in Russia has decreased to a record low

World news

• In 2018, the population of Ukraine decreased by almost 190,000 people

• South Korea announces amendments to pension system law

• Are Millennials not opponents of capitalism, but simply have no money?

• Uzbekistan successfully eradicates forced labor in cotton picking

• In Kazakhstan, more than 15,000 inhabitants with dual citizenship

• Ukraine approves of possibility of visiting Georgia using ID-cards

• EU needs to strengthen control over external borders

• UN Global Migration Treaty adopted at Morocco conference

• Indonesia chosen to chair UN conference on migration

• Merkel believes nationalists are lying about content of UN Global Compact on Migration

• Ukraine has not signed global migration agreement

• Brazil will withdraw from UN Migration Pact

• ASEAN launches safe migration campaign

• Hungary and the United States refuse to vote for Global Compact on Refugees

• Kazakhstan Parliament approves migration agreement with Tajikistan

• The Japanese parliament allows use of foreign labor

• A record number of refugees has arrived in Spain since the beginning of the year

• Mexican authorities have calculated the number of participants in the "migrant caravan"

• Attempts to get into US have cost 260 migrant lives over year

• In 2017 Italy spent 375 million euros to take in migrants

• 63% of Italians oppose migration

• Kirgizia wants to forbid migrants from leaving country until they have arranged for care of their children

• Dodon reveals amnesty details for Moldovan guest workers in Russia

• Immigrants in Germany are increasingly naming their children after Merkel

• WHO insists on reducing the incidence of cesarean sections

• Irish Parliament passes bill legalizing abortion

The newspapers write about…

• "Kommersant" and "Rossiyskaya Gazeta" on the National Demography Project

• “Eurasisches Magazin” on mortality in Russia

• “RBK” and “Kommersant” on distortion of statistics of causes of death

• “Kommersant” on HIV

• "Rossiyskaya Gazeta" on old age

• “RBK” on calculating alcohol consumption

• "Rossiyskaya Gazeta" on the medical care program

• "Bild" on the impact of gadgets on health

• “Helsingin Sanomat” on mental health

• "The Guardian" on accidental killers

• “Rossiyskaya Gazeta” and “InoSMI” on the UN Compact on migration

• “Russkaya sluzhba BBC” on migration in the world

• “Le Figaro” on the migration issue in France

• “Fontanka.ru” on migrants

• "REGNUM" on migration from Siberia

• "NetEase" on marrying Russian women

• "Rossiyskaya Gazeta" on alimony to former spouses

• "Rosbalt" and "Vox" on attitudes towards sex

• “EurasiaNet” on domestic violence

• “BBC” on LGBT

• "The New York Times" on a biological city

• “ReLevant” on European protests

Read books and magazines

• 2017 United Nations Demographic Yearbook

• Global Report on Diabetes

• Exporting Russian educational services

• Russian youth in Moscow (socio-demographic and ethnocultural characteristics). Field ethnostatistics

• Russian statistical yearbook 2018

• Through the pages of the magazines “Narodonaseleniye” ("Population") and “Ekonomika i organizatsiya promyshlennovo proizvodstva (EKO)” ("Economics and Organization of Industrial Production (ECO)")

• Contents of the journal "International Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health"

Profession: researcher

• Demographic behavior in France of migrants from post-Soviet Russia. Meeting of the Demographic Section of the Central House of Scientists of the Russian Academy of Sciences

• Lecture series of prof. R. Gal (Hungary) and leading domestic experts on National Transfer (Intergenerational) Accounts

• Epidemiological studies of the phenomenon of Russian mortality. Scientific seminar "Modern Demography" of the International Laboratory for Population and Health Research, HSE

• Infant mortality in the Russian Empire: facts and explanations. Scientific seminar of the Institute of Demography, HSE. "Demographic Challenges of the 21st Century"

• Deaths during the New Year holidays. Scientific seminar of the Institute of Demography "Demographic Challenges of the 21st Century"