Contents of Demoscope Weekly issue

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Current topic: Cancer mortality in Russia

  • A cancer transition?

  • Mortality from neoplasms and life expectancy

  • Age and sex characteristics of cancer mortality

  • Cancer mortality by its main localizations: Russia and the EU

  • Cancer mortality on the map of Russia

  • 65 percent of deaths from malignant neoplasms could be prevented

  • On the road  to reducing morbidity and mortality from neoplasms

  • Links to current topic

  • Topics of previous issues


World demographic barometer

  • Global trends in cancer morbidity and mortality

  • Each year in the world nearly 8 million people (13% of total deaths) die of cancer; 30% of these deaths could be prevented

  • In OECD countries every fourth person dies of cancer

  • Japan is the best equipped country in tomography machines, while the U.S. performs the most scans

  • In the OECD the average survival rate during the 5 years following the detection of colorectal cancer has increased to 61%, of cervical cancer to 66%, and  of breast cancer to 84%  

  • The extent of prevention and early diagnosis of cancer varies by social group

Through the eyes of the analysts

  • Factors distorting the pattern of causes of death among Russia’s working age population

  • Age features of preventable mortality in Russia

  • An analysis of the incidence of malignant tumors  among the population of the Samara region in 2000-2010 and a forecast till 2025

  • Statistics of malignant tumors of the female reproductive organs

Take care of women!

  • Public discussion continues about the legitimacy of abortion in Russia

  • UNAIDS on sustainable progress in the fight against AIDS

In the vastness of Russia

  • Natural increase in January-October was 16.8 thousand people

  • Infant mortality in Chechnya is twice as high as in Russia

  • Civil Registry Offices will transmit more detailed information to Rosstat

  • Russia sees increase in number of large families

  • The Federation Council approves increase in minimum wage by nearly 350 rubles

  • Pensions in October 2013 rose by 3.1%

  • Duma extends deadline for choosing funded pension till the end of 2015

  • Co-financing of pensions in the Russian Federation will continue under the old rules, but not for everyone

  • Ministry of Labor calls the point system an improved accounting system for pension rights  

  • The government has proposed to spend the maternity capital on renting state apartments

  • Has the maternity capital contributed to a significant increase in the birth rate of second and subsequent children?

  • Government proposes to extend maternity capital program till 2025

  • Almost 85% of Russian orphans have living parents

  • Can the orphan problem be eliminated in 7-8 years?

  • Over half of adopted children in 2012 were returned

  • Over 20 thousand children to get places in kindergartens by year’s end

  • Russian alimony payers owe their children 92 billion rubles

  • Ministry of Labor to set up registry of Russia’s disabled

  • Starting in 2016 Russians will begin to receive electronics IDs

  • Human Rights Council proposes to expand the list of places for registering citizens

  • Russia wouldn’t benefit from introducing visas with CIS countries, says FMS head

  • The Russian People’s Front forms working group on labor migration

  • In 2013 the FMS has forbidden entry to 380 thousand foreign nationals

  • Thousands of foreigners have checked the FMS internet site to see if they are allowed to enter Russia

  • The government proposes to tighten the rules for hiring foreigners

  • Moscow employers want to hire over one million foreign nationals

  • Moscow subway may see checkpoints for migrant workers

  • Four Russian universities to teach migrants the proper use of Russian speech

  • The number of HIV cases in Russia has reached 780 thousand

  • Over half of people with HIV in Moscow are residents there

  • Russia fights alcoholism by raising the price of vodka

  • Fewer and fewer Russians support the ban on smoking

  • Drug addicts evading treatment face fines or arrest

  • The population of Russia is insufficiently informed about cancer

  • Putin signs law banning the advertising of abortion

  • Restrictions must be put on surrogacy according to social indicators

  • Russia unwavering on free health care is firm

Eurasian panorama

  • The population of Belarus on November 1 was 9.4672  thousand people

  • The population of Moldova has been steadily declining

  • Over the next 20 years urbanization in Kazakhstan will increase by 10%

  • Two thirds of Belarusian households have a per capita income of less than $370

  • A third of Armenia’s population is officially recognized as poor

  • The minimum wage in Uzbekistan will grow by 5%

  • The average salary of Belarusian doctors is $666

  • Social payments in Ukraine are on schedule

  • Belarus considers abolishing free higher education

  • Baby boom in Kazakhstan could lead to a rise in unemployment after 2020

  • Economic integration of Moldova into the EU will contribute to job creation and improved quality of life

  • Will association with the EU increase unemployment in Ukraine?

  • Azerbaijan and EU sign agreement on visa liberalization

  • The EU will not compromise on visa regime issues with Ukraine

  • Kirgiz government creates special group on labor migration

  • Labor migration from Kirgizia could turn into a social disaster

  • 300 thousand Belarusians are employed outside the country

  • Moldovan diaspora demands apology from deputy insulting 700,000 migrant workers

  • Russia’s FMS bans entry of nearly 40 thousand Kirgiz citizens

  • Tajik women ask that their husbands be deported from Russia

  • One in ten Moldovans working abroad illegally

  • UN High Commission for Refugees to allocate over $200,000 for Georgian families

  • Georgian authorities decide to double benefits for refugees

  • Romanian recognized as state language of Moldova

  • Kirgiz parliament concerned about the quality of Russian language teaching in schools

  • The main causes of death in Ukraine have been named

  • Maternal and child mortality remains high in Tajikistan

World news

  • By 2130 Bulgaria will have no ethnic Bulgarians

  • UNFPA publishes world population report devoted to teen pregnancy

  • Minimum wage in Estonia continues to rise

  • One in five children in New York malnourished

  • Bulgaria and Armenia: the most “suffering countries” in 2012

  • Swedes will be able to adopt Russian orphans only after signing a bilateral agreement

  • Estonian labor activity is concentrated around five cities

  • Turkey and EU reach readmission agreement

  • UK population concerned about the level of immigration from Bulgaria and Romania

  • Germany and France to follow UK’s lead in introducing restrictions on migrants from the “new” EU countries

  • Tehran concerned about the extent of illegal immigration

  • Saudi Arabia has deported more than 100,000 Ethiopians

  • Residents of Serbia protest against resettlement of refugees from Asia and Africa

  • European Commission calls on EU countries to accept more refugees from Syria

  • Syrian refugees in Turkey live on $40 a month

  • Nearly a thousand people killed in Iraq in November

  • Brazil introduces free drugs for people with HIV

  • 80 years ago America abolished prohibition

  • Every year on British roads 10 thousand accidents are caused by drunken drivers

  • Belgium plans to adopt law on euthanasia for minors

  • Catholic Church in U.S. sued for ban on abortion

  • Obama will buy health insurance on the Internet

  • Croatian citizens vote against gay marriage in referendum

  • Europe’s oldest resident, Italian Emma Morano, turns 114

  • Saudi man divorced wife because of a cigarette


The newspapers write about

  • “Rossiyskaya Gazeta” on Putin’s “May decrees”

  • “Meditsinskaya Gazeta” and “Gazeta.ru” on the results of mass health examinations

  • “Ekspert” on oncoimmunology

  • “Rossiyskaya Gazeta” on the ban on advertising of abortions

  • “Vedomosti” on the maternity capital

  • “Rossiyskaya Gazeta” on the number of migrants in Russia

  • “Kommersant” on “half-visas”

  • “Kommersant” on banning entry to Russia for 380 thousand people

  • “Izvestiya” on migration control in the metro

  • “Vedomosti” on the stretchability of the rubber apartment law

  • “Kommersant” and “Vedomosti” on ghettos for builders and street cleaners

  • “Nezavisimaya Gazeta” on special agents to work in migrant neighborhoods

  • “Focus.ua” on a “vertical” solution to interethnic problems

  • “Kommersant” on the consequences of compulsory health insurance for foreign workers

  • “Gazeta.ru” on migration, AIDS and tuberculosis

  • “Moldavskie Vedomosti” on migration from Moldova

  • “Slon.ru” on migration and elections in Moldova

  • “Vecherniy Bishkek” on immigration policy in Kirgizia and Russia

  • “Vecherniy Bishkek” on the criminogenic consequences of migrants returning from Russia to Kirgizia

  • “The Independent” on the requests of Tajik women to return their migrant husbands

  • “Ekho” on deporting illegals from Azerbaijan

  • “FINANCE.UA” on the intentions of Ukrainians to emigrate

  • “Vedomosti” on apartment-financed opportunities for emigration

  • “Rossiyskaya Gazeta” on the problems of the Schengen

  • “Gazeta.ru” on the sources of Muscovites’ dislike of migrants

  • “Vedomosti” on regulating internal migration

  • “Gazeta.Ru” on the resettlement of compatriots to the Caucasus

  • “Ekspert” on the outflow of Russians from the Northern Caucasus

  • “Kommersant” and “Finmarket” on poverty and inequality in Russia

  • “Radio Svoboda” on money and regional social policy

  • “Vedomosti” on pension reforms in OECD countries

  • “Zaman” on suicides in Turkey

  • “Fakty” on mortality from the cold in Great Britain

  • “Kommersant” on the anniversary of the Great Famine  in Ukraine

  • “Rossiyskaya Gazeta” on a “road map” of demographic statistics

  • “Polit.ru” on Russian as an official language of the EU

  • “El Mundo” on a possible ban on Islam in Angola

  • “Atlantico” on Sharia in Afghanistan

  • “La Repubblica” on female bishops in the Church of England

  • “Vatican Insider” and “Atlantico” on crimes motivated

  • “Slon.ru” on an “artificial womb”

  • “Slate” on the influence of women on men

Read books and magazines

  • The First World War, the Civil War and Recovery: Russia’s national income in 1913-1928

  • Ethnic migration and ethnic demographic processes in the east of Russia in the late 19th   to the early 21st century

  • World Health Care Report 2013

  • Demography.  A textbook

  • Health Care in Russia 2013

  • Through the pages of the journals “Aktualnye problem Evropy” (“Europe’s Current Problems”)

  • Contents of the “International Journal of Law, Policy and the Family”

Profession: researcher

  • 60 years since the death of Sergei Alexandrovich Novoselskiy

  • Remembering Heldur Palli

  • 115 years since the birth of Alfred Sauvy and 50 years since the publication of his book “Malthus and the two Marxes”

  • Success within 25 years or a disaster?

  • Second conference of the users of the « Generation and Gender Survey»


New in the reading room

  • S.A. Novoselskiy.  The impact of war on population processes


Student page

  • Selected essays.  I. Kashnitskiy.  The transformation of marriage and partnership relations in developed countries

  • Demographer Graduates in the press

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