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Current topic: Migration in Russia: streams and centers of gravity

• Why the number of internal migrants has doubled

• A new strengthening of westward drift?

• Moscow and other centers of attraction of migrants

• Where temporary migrants go

• Links to related topics

• Topics of previous issues

Russian demographic barometer

• Crime in Russia: 2013

• Against a background of a continuing decline in crime, the number of crimes related to drug trafficking is growing: in 2013 it increased by 5.7% , while the share in the total number of crimes has increased to 10.5%

• The number of murders and attempted murders continues to decline, amounting in 2013 to 8.6 per 100,000 people

• The number of road accidents and their victims went down in 2013, but remains quite high

• 66% of the perpetrators of crimes in 2013 had no regular source of income; 48% had committed crimes before

• The number of convictions is decreasing: in 2013 735.6 thousand people were convicted of crimes -  29% of them  to punishment by imprisonment, 30%  conditionally

• As of  April 1, 2014 Russian prisons held 675,000 people in confinement

Through the eyes of the analysts

• Federal districts on Russia’s migration map

• The migration of young people in the regional centers of Russia at the end of the 20^th – start of the 21^st centuries

• Rural-urban migration in the Republic of Buryatia and the development of the suburbs of Ulan-Ude in 1989-2012

• Us and them in Russian provincial towns

Take care of women!

• Attitudes towards divorce, extramarital relations, homosexuality, abortion and contraception in 40 different countries of the world

In the vastness of Russia

• Life expectancy in Russia has increased to 71 years

• Russia breaks its own record for female life expectancy

• Medvedev speaks out against raising retirement age

• Putin promises pensioners further income growth

• All social obligations of the government will be met

• Cost of social services package has grown to 881 rubles

• Russian system of social payments will be operational in the Crimea as of January 1, 2015

• A growing number of children adopted by foster families

• State Duma has banned outstaffing in the Russian Federation

• In Russia, sales managers in greatest demand

• Russians will be obliged to report the receipt of a second citizenship and permanent residence permit

• Putin signs law on granting Russian citizenship to children  who are not in somebody’s charge

• 100 thousand residents of Crimea have received Russian passports

• HRC proposes to extend deadline for Crimeans’ to choose citizenship

• Russia needs foreign street cleaners who are adapted to Russian life

• Migrant workers will have to prove knowledge of Russian language and history, as well as of legislation of the Russian Federation

• New immigration center opens in Moscow region

• State Duma exempts refugees from need to obtain work permit

• About 200 Ukrainians have applied for refugee status in Russia

• HRC proposes to fine, not expel, foreign offenders in Russia

• In Russia, a growing number of incidents of inter-ethnic tensions

• Over past eight years mortality from heart attacks in Russia has been cut in half

• Russia records record low infant mortality

• Russia ranks fifth in world in number of suicides

• Moscow to begin experiment in rehabilitation of drug addicts

• Complete cessation of methadone treatment in Crimea will take place before the end of May

• In 2013 the incidence of tuberculosis decreased by 7.5%

• Nearly half of Russians suffer from chronic diseases

• As of 2015 all children will undergo  mass health examinations

• Donor organs to be given only to those willing to become donors themselves

• Hemophiliacs ask to reconsider the list of free medicines

• In Russia there are 86 specialized hematology and oncology centers for children

• Changes in funding of medical centers will not affect their functioning

Eurasian panorama

• Azerbaijan’s population is 9,494,600 people

• In Kiev, the number of births rose in 2014

• Moldova to launch information campaign on the census

• Incomes of the population of Tajikistan have increased by 10.6%

• Child benefits in Belarus to increase starting in May

• Kazakhs to be given benefits package for moving to regions with labor shortages

• Is Moldova forcing Transdniestrians to take up Moldavian  citizenship?

• Moldovans traveling visa-free to EU may be required to show seven kinds of accompanying documents

• Ukraine’s State Border Guard Service has confirmed the introduction of restrictions on entry to Russian citizens aged 16-60

• Belarus ratifies agreement with Tajikistan on temporary labor migration

• Azerbaijan and Russia preparing agreement on labor migration

• The largest number of Moldovan guest workers are working in Russia

• Kazakh repatriates can choose themselves which region of Kazakhstan to live in

• 1200 residents of Moldova participating in program to resettle compatriots to Russia in 2014

• Belarus ready to accept refugees from Ukraine

• Immigrants have appeared from Eastern to Western Ukraine

• UN urges Moldova not to discriminate against Roma

• Armenia welcomes adoption of Armenian Genocide resolution by U.S. Senate

• The number of HIV-infected people in Azerbaijan has reached 4,298

• Since independence Uzbekistan’s infant mortality has dropped by 3.2 times

• Azerbaijan has one of the lowest levels of road traffic fatalities in the CIS

• In Kazakhstan early diagnosis of cancer has improved, but is still not enough

• About 15 new cases of hemophilia are registered annually in Armenia

• The most frequent victims of domestic violence in Belarus are married women aged 27-40 with children

• Azerbaijan to introduce compulsory medical insurance

• By the year 2015 accessibility for disabled children in Kazakhstan will be established in 20% of schools

World news

• The Earth’s population has reached 7.2 billion people

• In Latvia 7.6% more children were born than in previous year

• Prosperity increases life expectancy

• More than 4.8 million Italians live in “absolute poverty”

• Does Lithuania plan to pay pensions using the pensioners’ money?

• Disabled Latvians to be returned their pre-crisis additional payments

• Iranian President speaks in support of women’s rights

• Wisconsin becomes first U.S. state to ban ads for rehoming adopted children

• Is unemployment forcing British youth into the priesthood?

• Labor market for people with disabilities in Estonia to be reformed

• More Latvians still leave than return

• 6 thousand African refugees rescued during four-day period off Italian coast

• The number of Syrian refugees in Turkey is approaching one million

• 23 thousand civilians have taken refuge from  rebels at UN base in north of South Sudan

• Hundreds of civilians killed in two weeks of fighting in Aleppo

• The number of victims of the super typhoon in the Philippines has reached 6.3 thousand people

• Estonians’ alcohol consumption down by an average of 0.3 liters per year

• Does moderate alcohol consumption help your career?

• Iran may ban vasectomies and tighten abortion law

• The number of victims of Ebola in West Africa has reached 1376 people

• Saudi Arabia reports sharp increase in number of people infected with new coronavirus

• Children’s health depends on the health of the parents, not the technology of conception

• Women make up almost 70% of victims of domestic violence

• Reducing salt intake helps prevent hypertension, stroke and ischemic heart disease

• After age 50, should you give up your steak?

• The most frequent cause of families’ bankruptcy in U.S. is spending on cancer treatment

• Does our mental and physical peak come at age 24?

• Indian court acknowledges existence of “third sex”

• Two teenagers age 12 and 13 become youngest parents in Britain

The newspapers write about….

• “Gazeta.ru” on migrants in Moscow

• “Svobodnaya Pressa” and “Novye Izvestiya” on replacement migration

• “Nezavisimaya gazeta” on migrants and the Russian army

• “Kommersant” on giving the FMS the authority to conduct  inquiries

• “Novye Izvestiya” on citizenship for “our own”

• “Novye Izvestiya” on possibilities of getting Russian citizenship in Georgia

• “Novye Izvestiya” on punishment for concealing second citizenship

• “Slon.ru” on emigration from Russia

• “The Moscow times” on Russian citizens with U.S. passports

• “Politicheskie Izvestiya” on the oppression of Russians in Ukraine and their readiness to move to Russia

• “Izvestiya” and “Novye Izvestiya” on refugees from Ukraine

• “Novye Izvestiya” on expelling Syrian refugees from Russia

• “Izvestiya” on the rights of Ukrainian citizens in Crimea

• “EurasiaNet” on Russians in eastern Kazakhstan

• “Kursor” on teaching in Arabic in Israel

• “Nezavisimaya gazeta” on exporting educational services

• “Korrespondent” on the population of the Earth

• Litovskiy Kuryer” on the boom in fertility and the lack of children in Lithuania

• “Zerkalo nedeli” on fertility in Ukraine

• “Kommersant” on the maternity capital as collateral for a loan

• “Izvestiya”  on the unconstitutionality of paid abortions

• “Tabnak” on the birth in Iran of children with drug dependence

• “Ogonyok” on the situation of orphans in Russia

• “Project Syndicate” on possibilities of reducing maternal and child mortality

• “Gazeta.ru” on grave road accidents, their victims and perpetrators

• “The Guardian” on alcohol consumption and violent crime in the UK

• “Salon” on inequality in the USA

• “Kommersant” on the size of unemployment benefits

• “Kommersant” on gray salaries

• “Sekret Firmy” on the 100 best cities of Russia

• “Kommersant” on patriotism

• “Novye Izvestiya” on Christianity in China

• “El Mundo” on a “brain map”

• “Naked-science.ru” on the real reason babies cry

• “Sueddeutsche Zeitung Magazin” on the lack of sleep and the destinies  of the world

• “Novye Izvestiya” on the price of happiness in pounds

Read books and magazines

• State of World Population 2013

• International Migration Report 2013

• International Migration Policies: Government Views And Priorities

• Regulating economic migration: existing mechanisms and practices of recruitment, selection and admission of foreign labor and the possibility of coordinated management of labor migration in Eastern Europe and Central Asia

• Labour market policy – expenditure and participants. Data 2011

• Through the pages of the journals “Migratsiya XXI Vek” (“Migration in the 21st century”) and “Zhurnal issledovaniy sotsialnoy politiki” (“Journal of Social Policy Studies”)

• Contents of the newsletter “Population & Sociétés»

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