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The population of the Russian Federation increased by 132,000
over the first seven months of 2013
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Over half of Russians are willing to identify themselves as
citizens of the Russian Federation
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The Russian government has approved the pension formula
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Russians renouncing the savings part of their pension will
still keep their savings
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About 20% of Russians will put off retirement for the sake
of increased payouts
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The program of state co-financing of pensions will be extended
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Might the question of raising the retirement age return?
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The average old-age pension in 2016 will come to 13.3 thousand
rubles
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Will a specialized secondary education earn you no less in
Russia than a higher one?
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Should the “maternity capital” program be extended?
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President proposes to make the maternity capital program more
targeted after 2016
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About 100 thousand places in kindergartens will be added by
the end of the year
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Labor market needs structural changes
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Unemployment in Russia will remain at 5.3% until the end of
the year
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The government is preparing a program of employment for residents
of depressed regions, young people and people with disabilities
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An 800-thousand ruble incentive to work in Siberia or the Far
Eastern Federal District
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Visa-free transit through the Russian Federation for migrationally
safe countries
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Russia is in the top ten migration destinations in 2013
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Is the problem of internal migration in Russia more acute than
the external one?
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Business ombudsman Titov proposes an amnesty for migrants in
the Russian Federation
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Amnesty for migrants will help restore order, human rights
activists claim
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FMS head against amnesty for “aimlessly loitering” migrants
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Russia to attract 100 thousand fewer migrant workers in 2014
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Can multiculturalism become an effective model for Russia?
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About 6% of Russians have used drugs at least once
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In 2013 9800 HIV-infected Muscovites will receive AIDS treatment
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In Russia about 40 million cases of infectious diseases are
recorded every year
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Pneumococcus vaccine to be mandatory
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Cancer patients can go directly to federal medical facilities
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Ministry of Health has developed a strategy for improving Russians’
health until 2020
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The government will take measures to improve the quality of
medical care in the penal system
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Moscow revokes order because of which ambulances refused to
transport patients
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The population of Ukraine on August 1 was 45,464,917 people
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Belarus to increase the minimum length of service for retirement
pension from 5 to 10 years
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Ukrainian women are promised early retirement for giving birth
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Pension Fund of Azerbaijan can pay current pension increase
with its own funds
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In Kirgizia, 13 unemployed applicants for every one job opening
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Moldovans are spending more than they earn
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In Kazakhstan, the share of the population with incomes below
the subsistence minimum fell to 3.2%
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Ukrainian government has allocated nearly 800 million hryvnia
for biometric passports
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13 thousand people emigrated from Kazakhstan in January-July
2013
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Moldovan migrant workers are settling abroad en masse, taking
their children with them
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By the end of the year Kazakhstan will simplify the procedure
for the hiring of foreign workers by individuals
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Over 150 thousand Chinese citizens have come to Kazakhstan
in the last 3 years
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About 610 thousand people over an 8-month period left Tajikistan
to seek work
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The ruble has bypassed the euro and the dollar for remittances
from Moldovan guest workers
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Remittances to Georgia in August increased by 11.2%
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Ukraine ratifies agreement with Poland on social security for
migrant workers
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On the roads of Ukraine, 2500 pedestrians are killed every
year
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In Kirgizia, bubonic plague quarantine lifted completely
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In Armenia, only women who already have children can become
surrogate mothers
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Kazakhstan kicks off campaign to assign people to clinics
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Palliative care system to be introduced in Armenia
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In Kazakhstan, about 800 tenge per person a month set aside
for primary care
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In rating of happiest countries, Armenia in last place in CIS
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The natural decrease of the population in Poland in 2013 threatens
to break the record
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World infant mortality has decreased by almost half in comparison
with 1990
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The number of Japanese pensioners over age 65 is a quarter
of the total population
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From 300 to 500 thousand people in France protested proposed
pension reform
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Most residents of Estonia don’t trust the country’s pension
system
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In Lithuania 18.6% of the population lives below the poverty
line
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Lithuanians are disappointed by the country’s economic situation,
and call the main problem unemployment
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The number of foreign adoptions of children from developing
countries has declined considerably
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220 thousand out of Lithuania’s population of three million
have emigrated in the last three years
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The number of Syrian refugees in Turkey has exceeded 500 thousand
people
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In Germany, the first group of Syrian refugees arrives
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Bulgaria will cope with the influx of refugees from Syria on
their own
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U.S. chooses not to impose sanctions against Russia, China
and Uzbekistan due to report on human trafficking
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UN High Commissioner for Human Rights has criticized France
and Slovakia for action against Roma
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British authorities do not want to regulate the wearing of
the veil
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UN anti-racism database is put into operation
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Men in Eastern Europe and Central Asia die earlier than women
due to unhealthy lifestyles
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One in ten Europeans dies of lung disease
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75% of deaths from injury and poisoning in Estonia in 2012
were children and the disabled
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In Lithuania a sharp rise in the number of suicides
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45% of Lithuanians are afraid of cancer
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Women under 50 should undergo regular mammograms
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One in six residents of Tallinn has no mandatory health insurance
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The birth rate among U.S. teenagers in 2012 was the lowest
in 73 years
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Almost 24% of men in Asia have committed rape at least once
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Over 139 million people were affected by flooding in China
in August
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Scientists have mapped “local” warming in Europe
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The happiest people live in Northern Europe
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The oldest man on the planet died in the U.S. at the age of
112
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“Atlantico” on the world population in 2100
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“Rossiyskaya Gazeta” on Russia’s demographic development strategy
until 2050
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“Novye Izvestiya” on drug addiction in Russia
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“Belorusskie novosti” on suicide
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“Gazeta.ru” on the impact of the 2008 crisis on suicide
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“Gazeta.ru” on drinking and driving
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“Gazeta.ru” on road traffic mortality in Russia
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“Kommersant” on ambulances and hospital beds
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“Novye Izvestiya” on the attitude of doctors to Russian healthcare
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“Fox News” on an AIDS vaccine
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“Novaya Gazeta” on the cut in social spending
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“Rossiyskaya Gazeta” on the fate of the maternity capital
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“Novye Izvestiya” on the imminent closure of nursery schools
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“Rossiyskaya Gazeta” and “Novye Izvestiya” on an “amnesty”
for migrants
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“Kommersant” on quotas for foreign workers
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“Kommersant” on the grounds for deportation from Russia
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“Gazeta.ru” on immigration policy in Moscow
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“Izvestiya” on cleaners and plumbers for the capital
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“Slon.ru” on the economics of migration and the Moscow elections
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“Ogonyok” on migrants and the German elections
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“Aziya-Plus” on migrants and the elections in Tajikistan
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“Naviny.by” on the preponderance of migrants in the clinics
of Minsk
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“Gazeta.ru”, “FINANCE.UA” and “Nezavisimaya Gazeta” on the
attractiveness of Russia and Ukraine for migrants
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“Izvestiya” on how Americans have nowhere to go
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“Vedomosti” on the “zeroing” of the funded part of pensions
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“Slon.ru” on the hidden increase in the retirement age
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“Novye Izvestiya” on possible job cuts
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“Vedomosti” on the “federative” capital
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“Liter.kz” on the megapolises of Kazakhstan
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“La Vanguardia” on the Spanish provinces
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“Lettera43” on violence against women
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“El Pais” on celibacy as “non-dogma”
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“The Atlantic Wire” on one misunderstood study
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“Ekspert” on human evolution
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“Ogonyok” on dying languages
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“Slon.ru” on Putin and the pedophile party
