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Current topic: The institutional framework of old age

• What age is best?
• When does the old age come?
• Old age, social status and rights
• The young elderly
• Demography, anthropology and sociology of the age
• New reality and old approaches
• Old age in the archaic period
• Retirement as a symbolic death
• Imposed old age
• Retirees as a social group and political power
• Afterword

Russian demographic barometer

• Demographic outcome of 2011 (Part II)
  • In 2011, the number of deaths and total mortality rate continued to decline
  • In 2011, mortality from all major classes of causes decreased
  • Despite the continuing decline in mortality from external causes in 2011, it caused more than 10% of deaths in 46 regions of the Russian Federation
  • Infant mortality continued to decline reaching 7.3‰ in 2011

Interactive poll

• Results of the previous poll: Can Russia’s population really increase to 154 million by 2050?

500^th issue of Demoscope Weekly

• 500^th issue. Intermediate results

Analytical articles

• Principles of the new pension reform
• Working in retirement: necessity or opportunity?
• Modern Russian retirees: particularities of social structure and lifestyle
• Marital relations in old age
• Socio-economic and philosophical challenges of population aging
• Making of a transhuman

Take care of women!

• A report on the situation of children in the Russian Federation
• New restrictions on abortion rights in Russia

Russian news

• According to Putin, Russia's population can increase to 154 million
• According to Rogozin, Russia’s population should be 500 million
• Putin criticized governors for lack of attention to demography
• Regions need work standards in the field of demography?
• Putin proposed an additional demographic analysis in the RF
• Golikova reported on a decrease in mortality in Russia
• Support for the third child will be provided in areas with low fertility
• The number of students has decreased by a million over the past three years
• The number of poor in 2011 increased to 12.8%
• Half of families with two children live below the poverty line
• Incomes of Russians in January fell by 46.5% in comparison with December
• Ministry of Health intends to calculate pensions on the basis of the period of work and wages of citizens
• Medvedev opposed the creation of separate settlements for large families in the Russian Federation
• Chechnya and Ingushetia were allowed not to provide land for large families
• The State Duma adopted a law on housing for orphaned children
• Medvedev supported the idea of a federal program "Russia without orphans"
• In 2011, the number of alimony cases decreased in Russia for the first time
• Internal Russian passports can be replaced by plastic identity cards
• In 2011, 100000 Russians left to live and work abroad
• Expats will be the first to receive electronic cards
• FMS counted up to 3.5 million illegal migrants in Russia
• FMS proposes a 5-year ban on entering Russia for double violation of immigration laws
• Migrants are most likely to commit crimes in megapolises
• 20 more centers for temporary hosting of migrants can be opened in Russia
• More than 1.2 thousand HIV-infected migrants arrived in Russia in 2011
• Onishchenko proposes a forced treatment of alcoholics
• Russia’s rate in teenage suicides exceeds the world rate by 3 times
• Suicide prevention program can be introduced in Russia in the near future
• Ministry of Health reduced the list of social indications for free abortions
• Putin has urged the regions to combat abortions by supporting single mothers
• Russian Orthodox Church proposed Ministry of Health to consider embryos human beings
• About 80% of children with cancer in Russia have a chance to recover
• Children with leukemia have been delivered from the annual confirmation of disability
• Almost 8 million Russians will be vaccinated from measles in 2012
• Golikov blamed inadequate funding of preferential medicines on the regions
• Prokhorov proposed to restructure Ministry of Health for a different function
• The number of prisoners in Russia decreased by 7.6% in 2011

Eurasian news

• Ukraine’s population on January 1, 2012 was 45633.6 thousand people
• There are 1151 women for every 1000 men in Belarus
• Ukrainians are now no longer obliged to register divorces in Civil Registry Offices
• More than 16% of marriages in Azerbaijan are informal
• Every sixth family in Kyrgyzstan breaks up
• Tajikistan will adopt a multilevel pension system from 2013
• Azerbaijan refused introducing a cumulative pension insurance system
• The amount of the January pensions in Belarus exceeded twice the subsistence minimum of a pensioner
• Average old age pension in Azerbaijan reached 45% of average wage
• 41% of poor families in Azerbaijan are those with three or more children
• The concept of "young family" in Azerbaijan will include citizens below 35
• In the east of Ukraine, orphans are significantly more likely to be adopted than in the west
• Mediators make profits on Ukrainian orphans
• About 50% of Turkmenistan’s population is unemployed
• The number of officially registered unemployed in Kyrgyzstan has decreased
• The number of unemployed in Moldova will be reduced
• There are 1.7 times more jobs in Belarus than unemployed
• The first sample household survey on employment is launched in Belarus
• The procedure for obtaining Armenian citizenship has been simplified
• Azerbaijan will introduce new identity cards on January 1, 2014
• Tajikistan creates Public Council on Migration
• Migration growth in Belarus in 2011 was 9.9 thousand people
• Nearly 63000 people moved from Uzbekistan to Russia for permanent residence in 2011
• The immigration quota for 2012 increased in Ukraine
• 106700 citizens of Kyrgyzstan were working in Russia officially in 2011
• Nearly 5000 foreigners seek refuge in Tajikistan
• 5.058 million Belarusians consider native the Belarusian language
• Most HIV-infected persons in Belarus are young people aged 15 to 29

World news

• The population and household census started in Estonia
• People with higher education live longer on average
• Latvian villages die off due to the infrastructure collapse
• February 20 is World Day of Social Justice
• Miami is named most miserable city in the U.S.
• The most expensive city in the world is Zurich
• Gross wages in Estonia increased thanks to Christmas bonuses
• U.S. did not receive notification from Russia to ban adoptions of Russian children
• Children in Turkey are now allowed to keep their mother's name
• Unemployment in Greece has exceeded 1 million people
• Lithuanian government took over the problem of youth unemployment
• Estonian government has refused to simplify the procedure for obtaining citizenship
• 75% of Latvia's citizens voted against the introduction of a second official language
• EU attracts scientists from outside the united Europe
• More than 5400 people have been killed in Syria over 11 months
• Alcohol seen killing 200000 Britons in next 20 years
• In Lithuania, people die in fires each day
• Heart attacks proved to be the most dangerous for young American women
• More than 50 children died of measles within a month in a single province of Afghanistan
• American epidemiologists documented growth in mortality from hepatitis C
• WHO's afraid of the return of leprosy to the Pacific Rim
• In Vitro children get ill more often and more seriously
• Improper condom use is a global health problem
• Obama delivered Catholic organizations from contraception payments to female employees
• Anti-abortion campaign started in 258 cities around the world
• The first human clones turned 9?
• Male Y chromosome is unlikely to disappear, as was previously thought

From the archive folders

• Introduction
• S.A. Novoselsky. The subject and contents of Russian health statistics in the pre-Soviet period of development.
• M.P. Krasilnikov. Legislation on civil registration of civil status.

Newspapers write about ...

• "Vedomosti" about the Russian pension system and other social problems
• "Echo" about retirement age
• "Expert", "Nezavisimaya Gazeta" and "Radiovesti.ru" about Russian demographic optimism
• "Gazeta.Ru" about demographic prospects of Russia
• "Vzglyad" about Rogozin’s demographic plans
• "Komsomolskaya Pravda" and "Nezavisimaya Gazeta" about Putin’s social promises
• "Vedomosti" about the price of Putin’s social promises
• "Rossiyskaya Gazeta" and "Izvestiya" about where new child benefits will be distributed
• "Moscow News" about child benefits
• "Kommersant" about the kindergartens issue in Moscow
• "Liter.kz" about the demographic situation in Kazakhstan
• "Rossiyskaya Gazeta" about the problems and prospects of Russia's migration policy
• "Kommersant" about the concept of migration policy in Russia
• "Liter.kz" about the prospects of introducing a visa regime between Russia and CIS
• "Izvestiya" and "Slon.Ru" about the attitude of Russians towards migrants
• "Rossiyskaya Gazeta" about migration situation in Moscow
• "Liter.kz" about migration policy in Kazakhstan
• "Slon.Ru" about Jewish migration from the former USSR
• "Izvestiya" about Hobo Day
• "Moscow News" about the education of children of migrants in Moscow schools
• "Nezavisimaya Gazeta" about the migration of teachers
• "Izvestiya" about labor force for Moscow construction sites
• "Profile" about the alternative staffing strategy at IBM
• "Kazakhstanskaya Pravda" about the employment program in Kazakhstan
• "Kommersant-Dengi" about the social portrait of Russian demonstrators
• "Moscow News" about the limitation of causes for late abortions
• "Regnum" about the falsification of the census results in Dagestan
• "Moscow News" about censuses in Russia
• "Chas" and "Telegraph" about Latvian census results
• "Business & Baltics" about registry instead of census
• "Chas" about the preliminary results of the referendum on the status of the Russian language in Latvia
• "Paruskg.info" about "pure" Kyrgyz people
• "RIA "Novosti" about AIDS in Russia
• "The New York Times" about baad in Afghanistan
• "Liter.kz" about small towns of Kazakhstan
• "Rossiyskaya Gazeta - Weekly" about the price of moving the Kyrgyz capital to Osh
• "Rossiyskaya Gazeta" about forcing Federal State Statistics Service to break the law

Recent publications

• Turning old age into joy: fundamentals of vital activity in old age
• Active ageing and solidarity between generations
• International population statistics
• Global labor market and international migration
• Identities in the era of global migration
• Through the pages of magazines “Problems of Social Hygiene, Health Care and History of Medicine” (“Problemy Sotsialnoi Gigieny, Zdravookhraneniya i Istorii Meditsyny”) and “Studies on Russian Economic Development” (“Problemy Prognozirovaniya”)
• Contents of “European Journal of Population”

Profession: Researcher

• About the trip of Russian demographers to the U.S.

Students’ Page

• Selected essays. Modern pronatalist policy in Russia in comparison with the policies of the 1980s

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• Joint Seminar on Mathematical Modeling and Systems Biology. Institute of Control Sciences, Moscow, Russia. February 29, 2012
• European conference EPC-2012: Gender, Policies and Population. Stockholm, Sweden. June 13-16, 2012. Registration deadline: May 1, 2012
• IMPRSD Summer Course on Integral Projection Models. Rostock, Germany. August 20-25, 2012. Application deadline: June 8, 2012
• British Society for Population Studies Annual Conference. University of Nottingham, September 10-12, 2012. Application deadline: May 11, 2012
• International Seminar on Population Dynamics and the Human Dimensions of Climate Change. Canberra, Australia. November 27-29, 2012. Application deadline: May 25, 2012
• Call for Papers. Development and Side Effects of Remittances in the CIS Countries and Georgia. Submission deadline: September 1, 2012
• ICPSR Summer Program in Quantitative Methods of Social Research
• Conference “In the shadow of a socialist city - Rural life and migration in the USSR in the postwar decades”. German Historical Institute, Moscow, Russia. April 19-21, 2012
• Seminar “Studying migration through census data”. Bordeaux, France. May 15-16, 2012. Application deadline: April 16, 2012