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Current topic: Mortality of Russian children from external causes  

• Child mortality from external causes in Russia is high, while available information is inadequate for the scale of the problem

• Russia clearly lags behind Europe

• Too many deaths from unintentional and undetermined injuries

• “It’s your own fault”

• Suicide: a sad leading position

• Among children infants and teenagers have the greatest risk of being killed

• There are improvements, but no cardinal ones

World Demographic barometer. Global trends of mortality at early ages

• The proportion of children dying before the age of 5 decreased as a share of total deaths from 29% in 1980-1985 to 14% in 2010-2015; for those aged 5-14 the decrease was from 4.5% to 2.4%

• On average worldwide the probability of dying before the age of 1 is 4.2%; before the age of 5, 6%; before the age of 15, 7.1%

• 89% of deaths before the age of 5 are caused by infections, maternal and perinatal mortality, and malnourishment; between the ages of 15 and 29 in first place (40% of deaths) come external causes

• Pneumonia and intestinal disorders are responsible for around one third of deaths for those under 5 and one fourth for those between 5 and 14

Analytical articles

• The epidemiological situation of drug use in the Russian Federation between 2000 and 2010

• The fight against smoking as part of a healthy life style policy

• Injury and poisoning among the causes of death of young people in Russia

• The demographics of Moscow’s Rurikoviches

• 10 billion people on earth within 100 years

On-line opinion polling

• The norm in Russian should become a family with three children. The results of visitor voting on Demoscope Weekly, issue number 535-536

Russian news

• The population of the Russian Federation increased by 246 thousand people between January and October

• The natural increase of the population in the Russian Federation in 2012 exceeded 4.5 thousand people

• Moscow beats demographic record

• In the Saratov region live over 2.5 million people

• The minimum wage in Russia has grown by nearly 13%

• In 2013 increases in retirement pensions will be made twice

• The maternity capital will increase in 2013 to almost 409 thousand rubles

• Starting January 1 disability pensions for children will increase to 8.7 thousand rubles

• Announcement of a long-term strategy for development of the pension system

• Affordability of housing in the Russian Federation has nearly tripled since 2004

• Amendments have been made to the law on social contracts for the poor

• The “Dima Yakovlev” law has entered into force

• Adoption of the “Dima Yakovlev” law is a blow to Russia’s image

• The Russian Federation will lose children adopted in the USA if it denounces their agreement

• Russia may completely abandon the foreign adoption?

• Within 3 months the State Duma will prepare proposals to stimulate adoptions

• The adoption system in the Russian Federation is unfriendly towards potential parents

• Official unemployment in Russia for December 2012 grew by 4.1%

• Russia’s first foreign passports with fingerprints are to be issued starting July 1, 2013

• Fine for violating registration rules could go as high as 800 thousand rubles

• New registration rules must not violate the rights of Russian citizens

• A new model program to assist the resettlement of compatriots to the Russian Federation has been approved  

• Putin has changed the law on the legal status of foreigners in the Russian Federation

• State Duma toughens immigration laws

• Draft law on attracting skilled migrants to work has been submitted to the State Duma

• Foreigners will be able to work without quotas in the Russian Federation for 59 professions

• In St. Petersburg, in 2011 citizens of the former Soviet republics gave birth to 4655 children

• Health insurance could become one of the conditions for entry into the Russian Federation for foreign citizens

• Putin signs law clarifying the legal status of refugees

• Xenophobic attacks kill up to 40 people in the Russian Federation in 2012

• The government has directed over 14 billion rubles to the regions for treatment of HIV and hepatitis

• A ban on the sale of beer at night and in street stands has gone into effect

• The regions will receive 600 million rubles for medical checkups for newborns

• Starting in 2013 IVF (in vitro fertilization) will be free for Muscovites

• Russian winter claims the lives of 170 people

• Program to modernize health care is practically completed

• Olga Golodets names priorities in strategy for providing medicines to Russian citizens

• Medvedev announces strategy to develop Russian medical science

Eurasian news

• In 2012 the population of Ukraine decreased by 85 thousand people

• Within 11 months of 2012 the population of Belorussia decreased by 4.5 thousand people

• The population size of Astana reaches 776,117 persons

• Starting in 2013 the number of pensioners in Kazakhstan will grow relative to those working

• Armenia falls into category of states “with a moderately free economy”

• Money income of the population of Tajikistan increases by one fourth

• Within one month the subsistence minimum in Kazakhstan increased to $110

• Inflation in Belarus was 21.8% in 2012

• In Belarus salaries increase for public sector workers

• In 2013 the average pension in Kirgizia will be nearly $100

• Military draft in Ukraine to be suspended in 2013

• Alexander Lukashenko proposes to reduce number of civil servants by one fourth

• Is there practically no unemployment in Belarus?

• Armenia abolishes visa requirement for citizens of EU countries

• EU lays down conditions for liberalizing visa regime for Moldavia

• The government of the Russian Federation approves agreement with Kazakhstan regarding the stays of citizens without registration on each other’s territory

• Over 900 thousand persons have left Kirgizia since it gained independence

• Moldavian authorities aren’t ready for the mass return of migrant workers

• Labor migration from Kirgizia over two times the norm

• Kirgizia: one of world leaders in immigrants’ remittances as a share of GNP

• Kirgizia to create Public Council for the protection of migrants’ rights

• A unified information space to be created in the CIS

• 51% of Ukrainians are against making Russian an official State language

• The number of drug addicts in Tajikistan has decreased by 16.2% in the past 5 years

• Armenia to implement system of compulsory health insurance

World news

• Population of Estonian capital exceeds 420 thousand people

• The oldest person on Earth dies in USA at age 115

• The oldest non-citizen of Latvia is 114

• In Syria around one million persons go hungry

• Nearly 18% of Estonia’s population lives in relative poverty

• Minimum salary in Lithuania raised by 17%

• American senators hope to see Russia reconsider its ban on adoption by US citizens

• USA seeks to unite orphans from the Russian Federation with the families already found for them before the passage of Dima’s law

• In 2011 most American adoptions of children were from China, Ethiopia and Russia

• Does Latvia need not workers, but new employers?

• In the past two and a half years 4744 persons have received residence permits on the basis of investment in Latvia

• In the past 10 years the number of Estonians working abroad has grown by at least ten times

• Latvian expats annually send home 350 million lats

• The number of refugees from North Korea has been halved in the past year

• Estonia for refugees: just a bridge to other EU countries

• In the fight against HIV in the countries of Asia and Europe Russia to allocate over 200 million rubles

• Britain scares smokers with images of tumor-bearing cigarettes

• In 2013 the number of people suffering from mental disorders will become even greater

• Proposal in Belgium to extend right to euthanasia to children and teenagers

• In the past 20 years American surgeons have made ten thousand mistakes

• Japanese the healthiest nation on earth

• UNICEF calls for an end to the involvement of children in the conflict of the Central African Republic

• In 2012 166 Latvians died in traffic accidents

• 2012 could become the safest in the history of world aviation

• Natural disasters worldwide caused 122 billion euros in damage over the past year

• In the USA 2012 the hottest summer on record

• China renounces labor camps where people were sent without trial

• In New York the number of felonies has decreased by 32% over the past 11 years

The newspapers write about ...

• “Parlamentskaya Gazeta” and “Rossiskaya Gazeta” on the message of Putin

• “Kommersant” and “Inopressa” on the “Anti-Magnitsky” law and orphans

• “The Washington Post” on international adoptions

• “Voice of America” on international adoptions in Ukraine

• “Kazakhstanskaya Pravda” on the message of Nazarbayev

• “Vedomosti” and “Kommersant” on the sources of population growth in Russia

• “Vedomosti” and “Rossiskaya Gazeta” on fertility in Russia

• “Kazakhstanskaya Pravda” on fertility in Kazakhstan

• “Gazeta.ru” on the consequences of China’s population policy

• “Rossiskaya Gazeta” on the future of the maternity capital

• “Rossiskaya Gazeta – Nedelia” on the new child benefits

• “Izvestiya” on the Moscow IVF program

• “Echo” on childfree in Azerbaijan

• “Slate.fr” on deaths from homicide in Latin America

• “Kommersant-Dengi” on infectious diseases

• “Die Welt” on HIV vaccine

• “Izvestiya” on the global demographic forecast

• “Moskovski Komsomolets” on migration and the economy

• “Project Syndicate” on immigration and the “economic power” of the USA

• “Project Syndicate” on U.S. elections and immigration

• “Die Welt” on the attitude towards immigrants in Germany

• “Rossiskaya Gazeta” on migration in Moscow

• “Slon.ru” on the number of migrants in Russia

• “Gazeta.ru” and “Vedomosti” on “rubber apartments”

• “Moskovskie Novosti” on the problems of teaching migrants Russian

• “Slon.ru” on the integration of migrants

• “Opec.ru” on value systems and attitudes to migrants

• “Courrier.co.il” on the children of “Russian” repatriates in Israel

• “Nezavisimaya Gazeta” on travel ban for Ukrainians entering Russia on internal passports

• “FINANCE.UA” on the possible deportation of migrant workers from Thailand

• “Novye Izvestiya” and “Voice of America” on the citizenship of Depardieu

• “Zerkalo” on Georgian Azerbaijanis

• “Izvestia” on Circassian refugees from Syria

• “Vedomosti” on Russia’s ethnic policy

• “Kommersant” on the FMS and ethnic policy

• “Gazeta.ru” on mentioning the nationality of criminals in the media

• “Novye Izvestiya” on employment in Russian industry

• “Polit.ru” on social mobility and the labor market

• “Izvestiya” on the Tula agglomeration

• “Slon.Ru” on the future of the pension system

• “Daily Mail” on believers and non-believers

• “Expert” on religion and religions

• “TDH” on the census in Turkmenistan

• “Daily Mail” on the age of youth, maturity and old age

• “New York Daily News” on Chinese law on compulsory “visits” to parents

• “Daily Mail” on exporting Germany’s old

• “Voice of America” on excess weight and longevity

• “Le Figaro” on the “water war” in Central Asia

Recent publications

• World Urbanization prospects. The 2012 revision

• Reproductive problems of demographic development in Russia

• Health and demographic indicators of the Russian Federation in 2010

• Social inequalities in health in Poland

• Russian statistical yearbook. 2012

• Through the pages of the magazines “Social aspects of public health” and “Vestnik MGU, series 18, Sociology and Political Science”

• The contents of the journal “Demographic Research”

Profession: Researcher

• 220 years since the birth of Pyotr Köppen

• Congratulations on the jubilee of Leocadia  Mikhailovna Drobizheva

• New Director of the Center for Migration Studies: D.V. Poletaev

• Moscow needs Museum of Migrants

Students' Page

• Competition for admission to the Master’s program in “Demography”

• “Intergenerational redistribution of wealth in an aging population in Russia.” Meeting of the student scientific society “Demographer”

Satirical column

• Finally Americans won’t have enough kids!

New in the Reading Room

• Presidential decree “On the strategy of the state national policy of the Russian Federation for the period up to 2025”

DW Web Site Traffic Statistics in November-December 2012

• Traffic to site stabilized in December

• In December Demoscope was read in 122 countries

• The geography of Russian visitors stabilized

• The most attentive foreign readers in December were from Greece

• Geography of the regions of Russia

• The most attentive Russian readers of Demoscope were from Berezniki

• User language

• December rankings fell in the Science section

• We are quoted…

• The most popular pages of Demoscope Weekly in December 2012