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•Flaws and waves in the Russian age-sex pyramid
•The “excess of women” is growing once more
•The aging of Russia’s population lags behind other countries
for now
•The dependancy ratio is still low
•Regional features of the age composition of the population
•Gender disproportion less in regions with younger populations
•Links to current topic
•Topics of previous issues
•Crime in Russia in 2012
•The overall level of crime in Russia continues to decrease,
but there is no success in coping with the growth of drug-related
crimes
•Despite a reduction of 2.5 times, the number of murders remain
high: 9 per 100 thousand people in 2012 compared with 1 per 100
thousand in Germany or Spain
•The number of traffic accidents and injuries increased in
2011-2012
•67% of those committing crimes in 2012 did not have a regular
source of income; 45% had already committed crimes before
•The number of convictions is decreasing: in 2011 782.3 thousand
people were convicted of crimes, of whom 29% received prison sentences
•At the start of 2012 756 thousand people were in prison,
including 4.6 thousand minors
•On the accuracy of the results of the Russian census and
the degree of trust in different sources of information
•Socio-demographic characteristics of the elderly in Australia
•Migration mobility of young people and shifts in the age
structure of the populations of cities and regions of Russia (1989-2002)
•The current status and prospects of aging in Russia
•Demographic markers of retirement age
•What worries Russians?
•Age limits on employment
•Do you agree to put off retirement?
•Are Russians ready to pay for education?
•Transport safety: monitoring
•Alcohol for the young: starting from what age?
•Fear of the other. The problem of homophobia in Russia
•In Russia half the people of working age are employed in
the “gray sector”
•Migration in the Novgorod region is not compensating for
population loss
•Putin announces threefold reduction in poverty compared with
the year 2000
•Retirement pensions to grow by 45% by the year 2015
•Starting April 1 retirement pensions to increase by 3.3%
•About 11 million Russians are involved in the state program
to co-finance pensions
•The government has opposed increasing the old-age pension
after age 70
•New pension formula fully supported only by United Russia
•Head of the Pension Fund of the Russian Federation proposes
to allow cash payment of maternity capital
•The number of foster families in Russia has decreased by
one-third over last 5 years
•About 6.5 thousand children were adopted in Russia in 2012
•The waiting line for Russian families wanting to adopt went
down to 16.5 thousand in 2012
•Cabinet refuses to incentivize adoption by offering big money
•Starting May 1 Moscow to increase payments to families with
adopted children
•Sociologist proposes to introduce compulsory DNA test for
paternity
•Cabinet approves Convention on the Protection of Children
from Sexual Exploitation
•The labor market situation in Russia remains tense
•Russians applying for jobs expect a minimum benefits package
•State Duma legalizes distance work
•In Moscow a drop in the average number of applicants for
one vacancy
•Government to consider bill on jobs for the disabled
•Is the new law on “rubber apartments” aimed against internal
migrants?
•Too much bureaucracy in the law on “rubber apartments”
•Russian compatriots wishing to return will be reimbursed
for the cost of their visa
•Putin proposes to expand programs for the return of scientists
from abroad
•The government is ready to support prohibition on hiring
migrants under 18
•Foreign students may be allowed to work outside of the university
•Rather than fighting labor migration, should it be legalized?
•Migrants don’t break laws on their own, but in cooperation
with Russians
•Foreigners violating immigration rules can be denied entry
to Russia for 10 years
•Stavropol Regional Court did not allow going to school in
hijabs
•About 720 thousand cases of HIV-infection in Russia observed
since recording began
•State Duma determines the amount of fines for violation of
the “anti-smoking” law
•“Road Wars” in Russia kill up to 30 thousand people a year
•Tuberculosis detected by fluorography in only 0.6% of cases
•State Duma proposes that government present an annual report
on the health of the nation
•Ministry of Health to prepare list of drugs for sale in stores
•Russian Supreme Court refuses to return the country to “winter
time”
•In Belarus, natural decrease in population has dropped by
5.4 times in last 10 years
•Armenia faces demographic crisis
•The number of inhabitants of Tashkent: 2.6 million
•Women in Belarus live 11 years longer than men
•Three-quarters of the population of Belarus are town-dwellers
•Belarusian families having more and more second, third and
fourth children
•Over 40% of marriages in Belarus take place between the ages
of 25 and 34
•Nearly Br253.2 billion was spent in 2012 for demographic
security program in Belarus
•Raising the retirement age in Ukraine has not reduced the
Pension Fund deficit
•Women in Kazakhstan won’t be allowed to choose their retirement
age
•In Central Asia, the most expensive city to live in is Astana
•State Statistics says wages in Ukraine are growing
•Cost of living in Moldova increased by 6.9% in 2012
•78% of Belarusian orphans are brought up in families
•Kazakhstan plans to give all children preschool education
•In Moldova, the economically active population is shrinking
•Unemployment in Kazakhstan for 2012 was 5.3%
•Armenians would like to emigrate more than anyone else in
the CIS
•Armenia launches program to mitigate the social impact of
labor migration
•Remittances from migrant workers account for about 20% of
GDP of Transnistria
•One in five Ukrainians believes that the Russian language
should be excluded from official communication
•Hungary asks Ukraine to accelerate implementation of the
Law on Languages
•Kazakhstan will create by this fall a state commission on
converting the Kazakh language to the Roman alphabet
•In Kazakhstan, women with HIV have begun giving birth more
often
•In Kazakhstan more than a quarter of citizens smoke
•The number of suicides and attempted suicides in Armenia
has grown by 25% over last 3 years
•Nearly 2 million people in Belarus suffer from high blood
pressure
•Only one in fifteen Ukrainian schoolchildren is considered
healthy
•Tajik doctors propose to ban marriages between close relatives
•For the first time ever Israel has more Jews than America
•The oldest resident of the U.S. dies at the age of 114
•Nearly 40% of young Pakistanis would rather live under sharia
•Paris once again protests against the legalization of same-sex
marriage
•The number of Syrians in need of help has reached 5.5 million
•Has the risk of the euro collapse passed?
•Latvian government has refused to give pension compensation
for the crisis years
•The Statistics Department of Estonia and Eurostat differ
in their estimate of the number of unemployed in the country
•Unemployment in the Euro zone sets a new absolute record
•Nearly 30% of high school graduates are unemployed in Latvia
•The EU and Estonia discuss questions concerning automatic
citizenship for children of non-citizens
•Mass exodus of Estonians from the provinces into the capital
continues
•The president of Latvia hopes to return at least some of
its compatriots who have left
•Will Latvia soon face a massive wave of immigration?
•Estonia offers “new immigrants” the help of “support persons”
•American journalists recommended not to use the term “illegal
immigrant”
•Scientists have tested new drug for hepatitis C
•The number of new coronavirus cases has reached 16
•Leukemia cured by a week of gene therapy
•American state bans abortions based on detection of Down
syndrome
•U.S. to spend about $90 billion a year to support autists
•Excess salt in the diet resulted in two million deaths in
2010
•Sweet drinks are linked to 180 thousand deaths in world
•In China over 6.6 million people lack drinking water
•Japanese researchers learn to read dreams
•“PublicPost” on world demographic problems
•“PublicPost” on demographic statistics and problems of fertility
in Russia
•“Novye Izvestiya” and “Vedomosti” on shadow employment in
Russia
•“Vlast” on the new pension formula
•“Ogonyok” on the social obligations of the Russian regions
•“Christian Science Monitor” on the harm of subsidies
•“Vedomosti” on receiving the maternity capital “in cash”
•“Novaya Gazeta” on punishments for attempting to convert
the maternity capital into cash
•“Kommersant” on getting the priorities wrong
•“Novye Izvestiya” on health and life expectancy
•“Vedomosti” on the quality of roads and the accident rate
•“The Washington Post” on AIDS and TB
•“Ogonyok” on a revolution in medicine
•“The Week” on the link between language, health and planning
the future
•“Ogonyok” on the problem of habituation to antibiotics
•“Zerkalo Nedeli” on the HDI for Ukraine and other countries
•“Vecherni Bishkek” on making it easier for college graduates
to get Russian citizenship
•“Liter.kz” on an individual income tax for guest workers
in Kazakhstan
•“PublicPost” on migration in Russia
•“RBK” on the resettlement of compatriots
•“Gundogar.org” on dual citizenship in Turkmenistan, politics
and economics
•“Paruskg.info” on Russians in Tajikistan
•“Vecherni Bishkek” on labor migration and remittances in
Kirgizia
•“Paruskg.info” on people without passports in Bishkek
•“Kontinent” on Islam in Russia
•“Slate.fr” on the costs of positive discrimination in the
U.S.
•“Zaman” on Turkish children in Europe
•“Telegraph” on migration and regional development
•“Sekret Firmy” on the ranking of Russian cities
•“Sekret Firmy” on the problems of Russian cities
•“The Daily Beast” on the creative class and cities
•“Russki Reporter” on the ranking of innovative cities
•“Korrespondent” on renting housing and salaries in Kiev
•“Novye Izvestiya” on environmental problems of Chinese cities
•“Itogi” on the acceleration of physiological maturation
•Alimony in Russia: an analysis of the problems and a strategy
in the interests of the children
•Eurasian Cities: New Realities Along The Silk Road
•An assessment of the national TB program in Belarus
•Global status report on road safety 2013: supporting a decade
of action
•Women and men in Russia. 2012
•Through the pages of the magazines “Sotsialnye problemy zdorovia”
(“Social aspects of public health”) and “Vestnik RAMN” (“Herald
of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences”)
•Contents of the magazine “International Perspectives on Sexual
and Reproductive Health”
•Demographic sessions at the April conference at the HSE
•Demographic section at the VII Conference in memory of Yuri
Levada
•On plans for the Russian census of the 2020 census round.
Meeting of the House of Scientists Section of statistics.
•240 years since the birth of Vasily Nazarovich Karazin
•A demographic essay on the population of Tajikistan
•On Alexander Vasilevich Pankov
•A.V. Pankov. The Population of Tajikistan (A demographic
essay)
•On the Master’s program in Demography
•Master’s program “Demography”: the view from within
•Postdiluvian demographic modernization
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