Contents of Demoscope Weekly issue

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Current topic: What fertility will there be in Russia?

  • Fertility rise in 2007-2010: is there a cause for optimism?
  • Measures of the population policy have not led to an increased willingness of Russians to have more children
  • Fertility rise has not led to a significant reduction in the expected number of permanently childless women
  • Russia's rank in fertility among developed countries
  • The second demographic transition and the changing age model of fertility
  • Lessons from previous fertility projections carried out in CDHE INP RAS / IDEM HSE
  • The main hypotheses of the forecast for 2030

World demographic barometer

  • The average number of household members in the OECD countries fell from 2.74 in the mid-1980 to 2.63 in the mid-2000s
  • The prevailing households are those where there is a couple
  • But in most households there are no minor children
  • Young people leave the parental home first, and after a few years try to build their own family
  • Older women are more likely to live alone, whereas their male peers live in the family
  • By 2030, the number of households of people living alone, single-parent families with one parent and couples without children will increase most

Analytical articles

  • Misleading policy messages from the period TFR: Should we stop using it?
  • Stimulating fertility and support for families with children in modern Russia
  • "Maternity capital: social policies and strategies for families"
  • Induced abortion and contraception in the 1990-2000s in the mirror of public and private statistics

Take care of women!

  • Russia is learning from the U.S.?

Russian news

  • Average life expectancy in Russia exceeded 70 years
  • Mortality in Moscow declined by more than 11% in 2011
  • Kudrin suggests to urgently solve the question of raising the retirement age
  • Raising the retirement age should be carried out gradually
  • Deputy Isayev suggests an alternative solution to raising the retirement age
  • The State Duma ratified an agreement with Estonia on pensions
  • The State Duma may increase minimum wage in 2012 to 6.5 thousand rubles
  • Over 1.5 thousand children are registered missing in Russia
  • Russia is interested in ratifying the treaty on adoption with the U.S.
  • Deputies will keep on working  on creation of the state alimony fund
  • Graduates will not be sufficient to fill 25 million jobs
  • Medvedev proposes to change the procedure for employment of young mothers
  • Putin reported about the decline in the unemployment rate over a year
  • Average unemployment in Russia in 2011 amounted to 6.6%
  • Putin suggested to tighten the rules for registration of migrants in Russia
  • FMS is preparing suggestions to toughen responsibility for migrants
  • Putin proposed to oblige workers to take the exam on the Russian language and the fundamentals of law
  • Campaign to raise quota for foreign workers in 2013 has been launched in Russia
  • FMS issued a reminder to employers who hire foreigners
  • Putin proposes to create a state institution on national policy in the Russian Federation
  • Uniform development would solve ethnic conflicts in Russia?
  • St. Petersburg police officers will be taught tolerant communication
  • 4 times more Russians got killed in air crashes in 2011 than in 2010
  • In the New Year holidays, Russians turned to narcologists 10% more than in 2011
  • In 2011 Russians had measles five times more than in 2010
  • About 91% of Russians are dissatisfied with the health care system
  • MMI financing gap is almost 100 billion rubles
  • Ministry of Health will make a decision about the medicinal insurance in 2014-2015

Eurasian news

  • The population of Uzbekistan increased by 435.7 thousand people in a year
  • Ukrainians continue to die out
  • The population of Belarus continues to decline
  • The population of Armenia will be halved in 40 years
  • In 2011 in Azerbaijan registered a fertility record in 17 years
  • Minsk became a leader in fertility in Belarus
  • U.S. give Georgia $ 1 million for the program of addressing residents of Tbilisi
  • Real incomes of Uzbekistan’s population increased by 23.1% in a year
  • Incomes of Belarusians increased by 0.1% in 2011
  • Cost of living in Kyrgyzstan rose by 25.1% in 2011
  • Real average monthly wage in Azerbaijan increased by 0.4% in 2011
  • Wages in the mining industry of Azerbaijan exceeded the national average by 3.3 times
  • Pensions in Azerbaijan increased by 40% in 2011
  • Pensions in Belarus will be raised four times in 2012
  • Politics of Kazakhstan in increasing pensions and benefits will be more cautious
  • President of Uzbekistan demanded that 516 thousand graduates from colleges and high schools be employed
  • 84 people claimed 10 jobs in the Ukraine in December
  • Unemployment in Kazakhstan was 5.4% in December 2011
  • Real unemployment in Azerbaijan decreased by 8.2% in 2011
  • More than 37 thousand Kirgiz received Russian citizenship in 2011
  • Turkey tightens visa regime for Georgian citizens on its territory
  • India will toughen the rules of entry for women from the CIS
  • About 6.6 million Ukrainians have gone abroad?
  • 56% of young Ukrainians want to leave the country
  • Remittances of labor migrants in Tajikistan rose to $ 3 billion
  • One forced migrant costs $ 894 to Azerbaijan’s budget annually
  • UN welcomes Ukrainian policy towards refugees
  • Ashgabat will hold an international conference on refugees
  • 41 channels of human trafficking were blocked in Belarus in 2011
  • TB and AIDS incidence decreased by nearly 10% in Kazakhstan
  • A week of immunization of children against hepatitis B began in Uzbekistan
  • The parliament of Kazakhstan ratified the Convention on Maternity Protection
  • More than 2 million people consume aryk (stream) water in Kyrgyzstan

World news

  • Latvia’s population is aging rapidly
  • Experts doubt the veracity of the results of Latvian census
  • 24% of Estonian residents have already been counted in the e-census
  • Every third working-age person in the world either does not work or lives in poverty
  • Two-thirds of Americans have seen the conflict between the rich and the poor
  • France will allocate 430 million Euros to increase youth employment
  • There are more than 230 thousand unemployed in Lithuania
  • In December the U.S. unemployment rate was the lowest in three years – 8.5%
  • Unemployment rate in China is 4.1%
  • Estonian Ministry of Internal Affairs begins mass control of identity documents
  • Naturalization rate in Latvia rose slightly
  • EU opened a portal for those who wish to immigrate to Europe
  • 900 people were returned to Lithuania last year
  • Hundreds of thousands of immigrants in Italy are on the brink of deportation
  • Libya asks EU for help in the fight against illegal immigration
  • Member of Australian Parliament suggests teaching immigrants to use deodorants
  • 17 million Euros are spent on teaching non-Latvians the state language
  • Referendum on the Russian language will not solve the problems of the Latvian society?
  • The French Senate introduced criminal liability for denying the Armenian Genocide
  • WHO estimated the number of illegal abortions
  • Is there a growing number of abortions in the U.S.?
  • The Taliban was accused in a three-fold increase in polio incidence among the Afghans
  • For the first time in history India was able to get rid of polio
  • Over 35 percent of the U.S. population suffer from obesity
  • One in five Americans in 2011 suffered from mental disorders
  • U.S. government decided to defeat Alzheimer's disease by 2025
  • American psychiatrists proposed new criteria for autism
  • Technique of conceiving children with genetic material from three parents has been developed in the UK
  • EU will teach older people to age actively

Newspapers write about ...

  • "RBC daily" about demographic problems of Russia's economy
  • "Nezavisimaya Gazeta" about Putin's plans on the national question
  • "Polit.ru, "Lenta.ru", "Rosbalt", "Grani.ru", "Izvestiya" and "The Christian Science Monitor" about Prime Minister’s initiatives stated in an article
  • "Polit.ru" about multiculturalism
  • "Kommersant" about the uselessness of the Ministry of Nationalities
  • "Ukraїnska pravda" about the national policy of Ukraine
  • "Chas" about the "zero option" of Latvian citizenship
  • "Moscow news" about the beginning of the quota bid campaign
  • "Arguments i fakty" about the illegal migration issue
  • "Izvestiya" about fighting against illegal places of residence of migrants
  • "Polit.ru", "Forbes.ru", "Kommersant" and "Moscow news" about the criminal responsibility for the organization of illegal migration
  • "Izvestiya" about teaching the Russian language to migrant workers
  • "Telegraph" about migration from Latvia
  • "Arguments i fakty" about the nationality structure of Moscow’s inhabitants
  • "Regnum" about the Kurds and the Yezidis in Russia
  • "Kommersant-Vlast’" about the crisis of pension systems
  • "Novye izvestiya" about Russian poverty
  • "Kommersant" about the state program for development of Russian health care
  • "Kommersant-Money" about the problems of the MMI system
  • "Den’" about the issue of alcohol abuse and mortality in Ukraine
  • "Telegraf.by" about child allowances in Belarus
  • "Zerkalo" about the situation of children in Azerbaijan
  • "Meditsinskaya Gazeta" about reproductive health
  • "1tv.ru" about surrogacy
  • "Telegraph" and "Business & Baltia" about the first results of the census in Latvia
  • "Vedomosti" about the potential population of Moscow
  • "Novye Izvestiya" about ultra-orthodox Israelis

Recent publications

  • Fertility and family planning in Russia: History and Prospects
  • Youth family policy in the Ukraine
  • New life in modern Russia: gender studies of everyday life
  • Family law and demography
  • Global population issues of modernity: Migration and migration policy
  • Through the pages of the magazines "Narodonaseleniye" ("Population") and "Vestnik MGU.  Vol.18. Sociology and Political Science"
  • Contents of the magazine "International Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health"

Profession: Researcher

  • Happy birthday to Tatiana Ivanova!

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  • Olympiads for admission to Masters in Demography
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