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In this issue:

Current topic: Migration in modern Kyrgyzstan

• Migration mobility in Kyrgyzstan
• International migration is increasingly focusing on Russia
• External migration leads to monoethnicity
• 2000s: flourishing of temporary labor migration abroad
• Internal migrants travel to Bishkek
• Outflow abroad absorbs almost two thirds of the increase in the working age population

World demographic barometer

• In October 2011, world population will exceed 7 billion people
• The problem of rapid growth of world population keeps its acuteness
• Despite the trend of convergence, the basic demographics differ greatly between countries
• 9% of the world population are at the beginning of the demographic transition. A case of Uganda
• 7% of the world population are experiencing the second phase of demographic transition, showing a decline in both mortality and fertility. A case of Guatemala
• 38% of the world population are experiencing the third phase of demographic transition in which fertility approaches the replacement level. A case of India
• 46% of the world population lives in countries where the demographic transition has ended. A case of Germany

Analytical articles

• On the other side of economic determinism: microdynamics of migration from rural Kyrgyzstan
• "We are all in the same boat - both Russians and Kyrgyz"
• Cross-border migration processes in the south of Kyrgyzstan and their possible impact on inter-ethnic relations
• Kyrgyzstan: migration of the population after the two "tulip revolutions" and the Osh events in 2010
• Opportunities for universities

Take care of women!

• Youth and safe sex

Russian news

• Natural population decline in Russia shrank by 35% compared to 2010
• According to Medvedev, Russia can be proud of the maternity capital delivery program
• According to the CIA, mortality in Russia is 15 times higher than what the Federal State Statistics Service indicates
• Census made confidential due to disappearance of the Russian people?
• The real amount of pensions in the Russian Federation in August rose by 0.6%
• The pension co-financing program included almost 6 million Russians
• Ministry of Health is going to introduce a non-recurrent payment of retirement savings only for citizens born after 1967
• Living conditions of 70% of Russians are below average
• Moscow holds the sixth place among the subjects of Russia in terms of poverty reduction rates
• Unemployment in Russia may rise significantly?
• Cancellation of the Russian internal passport is not in the plans yet
• FMS opens an online system for transmitting data on border crossings
• Karelia is ready to receive thousands of compatriots from abroad
• The State Duma ratified an agreement on labor migrants with South Korea
• In Moscow hospitals 1.5 million migrants get free treatment?
• Labour migration contributes to the spread of tuberculosis and HIV in Russia?
• Over the past 20 years in Russia, there were registered about 800000 suicides
• Ministry of Foreign Affairs stands for compulsory treatment of drug addiction and alcoholism in Russia
• In Russia, a group will be created to identify the causes of death among young people
• Mortality from cardiovascular diseases in Russia is reducing
• Proportion of deaths from circulatory diseases in Moscow reaches 60%
• Approximately two-thirds of all neonatal deaths can be prevented
• Infant mortality rates characterize social welfare
• Nearly 5000 people have drowned in Russia since the beginning of the year
• Medvedev urged to develop a system of mobile medical centers
• A new list of essential drugs is submitted for public discussion
• State funding of the free drug provision for Russians has to be increased by 3-4 times
• Private clinics do not want to take part in mandatory health insurance because of the limitation on their rights

Eurasian news

• Every year the population of Moldova decreases by about 6-8 thousand people
• The demographic problem of Kazakhstan should be solved by oralmen
• In Belarus, men live 11-15 years less than in developed countries
• The mass baptism of children by Ilia II, Catholicos-Patriarch of All Georgia, is aimed at the fertility rise in Georgia
• Ukraine has to give priority to the fertility rise
• In Armenia, it has become a tradition to interrupt pregnancy, if the unborn child is a girl
• Armenia needs $ 1.4 million to carry out the census
• More than 90% of elderly people in Kyrgyzstan live in poverty
• Kazakhstan suggests toughening migration policy with regards to China
• Tajikistan’s government considers national labor migration strategy
• Belarus is developing a mechanism of compensation payments to immigrants
• Chinese investments arrive in Tajikistan with Chinese migrants
• One third of working-age population of Ukraine in search of work had gone abroad
• 603 bodies of Tajik migrants have been delivered from Russia to Tajikistan within 8 months in 2011
• More than 100 migrants from Kyrgyzstan were killed in Russia in 2011
• Ukrainian migrants are less likely to become victims of sexual exploitation, but more likely that of labor slavery
• Every sixth hryvnia spent on combating illegal immigration was used inefficiently
• An Agency for Diaspora Affairs will be created in Moldova
• Uzbekistan banned the sale of tobacco and alcohol to persons below 20
• Armenians die most often from cardiovascular diseases
• In Kazakhstan, cardiovascular diseases rank first among the overall morbidity and mortality causes
• In Kazakhstan, the maternal mortality decreased by more than 1.5 times
• In Kyrgyzstan, more than 1,000 children are born with congenital heart disease every year
• Uzbekistan takes measures to combat breast cancer overall census started in  italy
• 1.5% of Armenia's population suffer from mental disorders

World news

• Earth's population has increased more than twice in the last 50 years
• Shortage of women is already being felt In Asian countries
• Nationwide census started in Italy
• Census in Latvia will continue until early 2012
• Japan’s Government started thinking about raising the retirement age
• Latvia has no money for pension indexation
• Less than 30% of Chinese workers take paid annual leave
• By 2020 Europe may experience a shortage of two million skilled health workers
• U.S. unemployment rate in September remained at the level of August and amounted to 9.1%
• UK passport application forms will no longer contain the terms father and mother
• 78 people refused Estonian citizenship in 2011
• Political asylum in Latvia is basically in demand among the citizens of Georgia
• A record number of residents left Latvia in August
• More than 337000 people have emigrated from Lithuania in the period of 10 years
• U.K. will reduce the quota for migrant workers
• EU demands that Britain admit immigrants intending to go straight on to benefits
• Tuberculosis mortality in the world has decreased by 40% in 20 years
• September 29 is World Heart Day
• Smoking increases the risk of stroke by 4 times
• Smoke breaks will influence the budget of Belgian civil servants
• Campaigns to vaccinate children against rotavirus infection started in the poorest countries
• West and Central Africa are facing one of the biggest cholera epidemics
• Multivitamins raise mortality among women aged 50-60
• China adopted a ten-year plan to combat leprosy
• Healthy Americans will no longer be tested for prostate cancer
• Europeans spend 798 billion euros per year on combating diseases of the psyche
• 48% of patients in the U.S. prefer to save on treatment
• Denmark introduced a tax on fatty foods
• Brazil leads in an absolute number of murders in the world
• Census in Macedonia invalidated

Newspapers write about ...

• "Svpressa.ru" about real and imaginary success of Russian demographic policy
• "Nezavisimaya gazeta" about Russia's population according to the CIA
• "Kommentarii" about demographic problems of Ukrainian villages
• "RIA "Novosti" about an incomplete working week for young mothers
• "Izvestia" about the possibilities of Eurasian integration
• "Trud-7" about new confessions of Poltoranin
• "Rossiyskaya gazeta" about the contribution of migrants to the economy and some myths of migration
• "Polit.ru" about migration in Moscow
• "Rossiyskaya gazeta" about labor migrants in the Moscow region
• "Belorusy i rynok" about new trends in external migration in Belarus
• "Novye izvestia" about Chinese being better than Muslims
• "Kommersant" about problems with Muslims in Europe
• "Novye izvestia" about Sharia courts in… Norway
• "RBC" about Australia's migration policy
• "RIA "Novosti" about the "green card" lottery
• "FINANCE.UA" about the Ukraine-EU visa issue
• "Kommentarii" about the policy with regard to emigration in Ukraine
• "Forbes" about emigration from Russia
• "Gundogar.org" about the Russian language in Turkmenistan
• "Novye izvestia" about the Polish-Lithuanian linguistic and financial obstacles
• "Der Tagesspiegel" about Russian speakers in Germany
• "Novye izvestia" about Jews
• "Novoye vremya" about the domination of Armenians in the Russian parliament
• "Kommersant" about the discussion of the principles of public health protection
• "Izvestia" about the program "Healthcare in Moscow in 2012-2016"
• "Nezavisimaya gazeta" about the cost of medicine
• "Kommersant" about the prospects of domestic medicine
• "Meditsinskaya gazeta" about the German healthcare system
• "Vz.ru" and "Vedomosti" about suicides in Russia
• "Novye izvestia" about the closing of sobering-up stations
• "Novye izvestia" and "Kommentarii" about the elderly and labor
• "Novye izvestia" about obesity in India
• "Expert" about Russian cities
• "Ogonek" about religiosity of Russians
• "Echo planety" about a new method of determining sex of a child
• "Meditsinskaya gazeta" about anthropometry of Russians

Recent publications

• Demographic Yearbook of the Kyrgyz Republic 2005-2009
• Women and men of the Kyrgyz Republic 2005-2009
• Demographic Yearbook of Kazakhstan
• Women and men in Kazakhstan 2006-2010
• Ukrainian youth in the labor markets of foreign countries
• Through the pages of magazines "Human Ecology" and “Rossiyskiy vestnik perinatologii i pediatrii” ("Russian Bulletin of Perinatology and Pediatrics")
• Contents of the journal "Population and Development Review"

Profession: Researcher

• Message from UN Secretary-General on World Statistics Day
• Boris Prokhorov is 75
• Eugeny Soroko is 60
• Andrei Rakov died

Internet Journey

• Demoscope Weekly presents websites:
  - Job market for migrants Comtrud.ru
  - Agency on Statistics under the President of the Republic of Tajikistan
  

Students’ Page

• Student Society "Demographer": opening of the 4th season

DW Web Site Traffic Statistics in August-September 2011

• DW Web Site Traffic in September grew by 80%
• DW was read in September in 91 countries
• The geography of Russian visitors is widening
• The most reading DW visitors overseas are from Chile
• DW was read in 17 cities in Ukraine
• The most reading DW visitor from Russia is in Lebedyan
• Language of our visitors
• The rating of our web site in the Science category of OpenStat has risen
• We were quoted...
• The most popular pages of DW in September 2011

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• Opening of the exhibition “From the history of population migration in Soviet Russia, 20-30s of XX century”. Moscow, Russia. 20 October 2011.
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• Lecture “Ethnical issue in Russia. How to build a nation?” Moscow State University, 19 October 2011.
• Demographic Analysis and Research International Conference “Demographics 2012: Model building and applications”. Chania, Crete, Greece. 5-8 June 2012. Application deadline: 30 October 2011.
• European Mortality Workshop “New measures of mortality – what do they mean?” Tallinn, Estonia. 5-7 September 2012. Application deadline: 30 March 2012.
• Population Council's Bixby Fellowship Program. Application deadline: 15 January 2012.
• Scientific Seminar “Losses of expected lifetime in the US and other developed countries: methods and empirical analyses”. Moscow, Russia. 25 October 2011.
• Population-Environment Research Network Cyberseminar “Preparing for Population Displacement and Resettlement Associated with Climate Change and Large Climate Mitigation and Adaptation Projects”. 1-14 November 2011.
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