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Current topic:
Russian youth in the framework of marriage and family

• The changing life strategies of young people

• New marriage and partnership niches

• Fertility: resetting the calendar

• Sexuality is being emancipated from reproduction and marriage

• Conclusion: personal choice replacing the universal norm

• Links to related topics

• Topics of previous issues

European demographic barometer

EU-28: first demographic results for 2013

• By the start of 2014 the population of the EU-28 had reached 507.4 million people, an increase of 0.3% over 2013

• In 2013 the natural population increase of the EU-28 was 0.2‰, while net migration was 1.3‰

• In the EU-28 5.1 million people were born over the past year, 3% fewer than in 2012

• In the same period 5 million people died, 0.2% fewer than in 2012

• By 2013 the median age in the EU-28 had risen to 42 years

Through the eyes of the analysts

• Marriage in Western Siberia as a phenomenon of social mobility (from the end of the 19^th century to the end of the 1920s)

• The socio-economic behavior of the individual in the mirror of the life course theory

• Births out of wedlock and premarital conception in Russia: a conscious decision by parents?

• Parenthood in Russia today: state policy and civil initiatives

Take care of women!

• Russia’s performance on the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women

• UN aims to halt the spread of AIDS within the next 5 years

• Newsletter for World AIDS Day 2014

In the vastness of Russia

• Personnel shortage in Russia comes to 2 million people

• Ministry of Labor and Ministry of Finance to discuss indexation of benefits in accordance with actual inflation

• Half of families in Russia will be able to buy a home by 2020

• 93 thousand orphans in need of a foster home

• The number of Russians deprived of parental rights due to child abuse is down by 70%

• Most Russian universities are not ready to provide the necessary conditions  for students with disabilities

• State Duma passes bill on accessible environment for the disabled

• There will be no mass layoffs amid  the falling ruble

• The number of officially registered unemployed in the past month fell by 3.3%

• State Duma approves bill on unemployment benefits for residents of the Crimea ad Sevastopol

• State Duma will consider the question of the biometric registration of all citizens of the Russian Federation

• Two-thirds of Russians do not object to the introduction of fingerprints in foreign travel passport

• Departing Russian citizens need to be informed about the laws of other countries

• Matvienko proposes to develop a migration code

• Putin concerned about migration-related crime

• In 2015 Russia will issue 126 thousand temporary residence permits to migrants

• Up to 100 thousand compatriots will move to Russia this year

• The most attractive region for migrants to Russia is the Moscow region

• Federation Council approves law to replace quotas for labor migrants with patents

• Migrant Federation urges not to raise the patent price sharply

• Does Russia’s labor market not need educated migrants?

• In 2014 over 600 thousand foreigners were barred entry to Russia

• State Duma adopts in second reading bill on health insurance for migrants

• The number of Ukrainian refugees returning home is quite small

• Ukrainian refugees face problems obtaining status and medical aid

• Total fines for violators of anti-smoking law have reached 48 million rubles since the start of the year

• Ministry of Health calls for raising the excise tax on tobacco

• For the first time ever Russia will begin mass vaccinations of children against pneumococcal disease

• Lively debate in Christ the Savior Cathedral over banning abortion

• Roshal believes that Russia should increase spending on health care

• Putin considers that Moscow authorities did not think through health care reform

• Moscow health facilities may lay off 7 thousand doctors of retirement and pre-retirement age

• One-third of capital’s medical staff come to work from nearby regions

Eurasia panorama

• Armenia’s population has decreased by 3.2 thousand people since the start of this year

• Ukraine’s population has decreased by more than 100 thousand people over the past year

• In the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic data being collected on the population size

• One-third of Armenia’s population lives below poverty line

• The subsistence minimum in Kazakhstan will increase by 34% in 2017

• Subsistence minimum in Azerbaijan will reach 131 manat

• Average pension in Belarus is almost 20% more than in December of last year

• Georgia to increase pensions by 10 GEL in 2015

• Pensioners from “Anti-terrorist Operation” zone overwhelm social welfare agencies in Mariupol

• Ukraine needs to cut in half the number of special benefits  recipients

• The number of children in kindergartens in Kazakhstan has increased by more than 60 thousand over past year

• In Belarus, a very high number of young people with higher education

• Azerbaijan’s main employer is still the state

• The employment rate of young people in Belarus is one of the highest in the CIS

• The number of registered unemployed in Belarus is 22.3 thousand people

• Tajik citizens deported from Russia will be asked to build hydroelectric power station at home

• A unified labor market may be created as part of the EAEC

• Biometric passport will cost Ukrainians 15 euros

• Tajik authorities have banned sale of tickets to Russia using internal passports

• Citizens of Russia and Armenia will be mutually exempt from the obligation to register within 30 days

• Over 21 thousand people have left Kazakhstan over past year

• Ukraine passes law on internally displaced persons

• Minsk cannot cope with influx of migrants from Ukraine

• Head of Gagauzia calls on Russian Federation to amnesty all Moldavian illegals

• Uzbekistan takes second place in the rankings of modern slavery

• In Ukraine, only the Ukrainian language will have state status

• The number of war victims in Ukraine has already reached 4.1 thousand people

• One in four people in Belarus smokes

• In Azerbaijan, one in ten women smokes

• Kazakhstan achieves significant reduction in maternal mortality

• Kiev’s medical facilities don’t have enough money to buy drugs

World news

• The number of victims of terrorist attacks in the world in 2013 increased by 61%

• Over 800 thousand foreigners became citizens of the European Union in 2012

• In Bulgaria, incomes shrinking

• Latvian Ministry of Finance intends to treat recipients of local and foreign pensions equally

• The “hole” in Estonia’s pension fund rose by 20% for the year

• Estonia increases allowance for each foster care child  

• The number of homeless children in the U.S. has reached 2.5 million

• In Sweden, a whole town to be relocated

• In Estonia 1000 jobs will be created for the disabled by 2020

• The unemployment level in Turkey has surpassed 10%

• Unemployment in Estonia has increased to 7.5%

• Unemployment down in Lithuania

• Estonian entrepreneurs are ready to raise the salaries of skilled workers so that they don’t emigrate

• 20% of Poles are ready to leave Poland in 2015

• Estonia’s immigration quota for 2015 is 992 people

• The number of asylum seekers in the EU has doubled over the past 5 years

• Obama intends to protect about 5 million illegal migrants from deportation

• Norway sets migrant deportation record

• The level of illegal migration in Bulgaria has risen sharply

• EU should “assign responsibilities” to combat illegal migration

• Pope Francis concerned about increasing hostility towards migrants

• Lithuania decides to restore Department of National Minorities

• Germany stops providing financial support to German minority in Crimea

• In Vietnam, drug addicts will be subject to compulsory treatment

• Every day in the world more than 500 children are victims of road accidents

• The number of Ebola victims has reached 5,177 people

• Ebola epidemic in West Africa may affect the economy of the entire region

• Widespread use of vaccines against Ebola virus will not begin before 2015

• Worldwide mortality from measles has increased

• Another milestone in the fight against polio

• By 2030 there will be twice as many people with diabetes

• Every year 372 thousand people drown

• Obesity hurts the economy no less than war

• Girls in Great Britain are the most overweight  in the world

• US scientists have not found a longevity gene in the world’s oldest people

The newspapers write about…

• “Novaya Gazeta” on legislative prohibitions in private life

• “Izvestiya” on a new initiative to ban abortion

• “Yegor Gaidar Fund” on the demographic success and demographic problems of Russia

• “Slon.ru” on maintaining Russia’s natural population growth

• UzDaily.uz” on the Report on the World Population in 2014

• “Golos Armenii” on the futility of reducing world population growth

• “Vedomosti” on citizenship and economic policy

• “Nezavisimaya Gazeta” on the Migration Code

• “Vedomosti” on patents for migrants instead of quotas

• “Vedomosti” on the competition of Russian workers with migrants

• “Izvestiya” on exams for migrants

• “Izvestiya” on a lifetime ban on entry into Russia

• “Vedomosti” on migration reform in the USA

• “Kommersant-Vlast” on combatting “social tourism”

• “Den” on Ukraine’s migration problems

• “Ekonomicheskie Izvestiya” on the possible consequences of  abolishing the visa regime with the EU for Ukraine

• “Golos Armenii” on the consequences for Armenia of joining the EAEC

• “Vedomosti” and “The Guardian” on modern slavery

• “Kommersant” on health care reform

• “Slon.ru” on ending the program to fight cancer

• “Ogonyok” on the growing number of epidemics

• “Novye Izvestiya” on mortality in road accidents

• “Ekspress-K” on life expectancy in Kazakhstan

• “Meditsinskaya Gazeta” on pensions and health

• “Opec.ru” on the Russian pension system

• “Kommersant” on pension rights in the EAEC

• “Ogonyok” on orphanhood in Russia

• “Belorusskaya Niva” on persons obliged by a court decision to work

• “Open Democracy” on prohibited occupations for women in Belarus

• “Klub regionov” on the ranking of Russian cities for quality of life

• “Slon.ru” on London and centralization in the UK

• “Vedomosti” on geopolitics and regional development

• “Psychologies.ru” on the values of Russians

• “Ekspert” on the declaration of a Russian identity

• “American Thinker” on the problems of Christians in the Middle East

• “Izvestiya” on biometric registration

• “Nauka i Zhizn” on the evolutionary sense of grandmothers

• “Obozrevatel.com” on IVF and the disappearance of sex

Read books and magazines

• Population of Russia 2012

• Population trends and corresponding measures in regional policy: results, policy measures and opportunities

• Morbidity statistics in the EU

• Infrastructural support for the development of Ukraine’s labour market

• Discrimination in Moscow’s labor market

• Through the pages of the journals “Demographiya ta sotsialna ekonomika” (“Demography and Social economics”) and “Rossiyskiy Vestnik Perinatologii i Pediatrii” (“Russian Bulletin of Perinatology and Pediatrics”)

• Contents of the journal “Gender and Development”

Profession: researcher

• 130 years since the birth of Mikhail Vasilyevich Ptukha

New in the reading room

• M.V. Ptukha.  Essays on population statistics

Congratulations

• Congratulations to Ilya Kashnitsky on the birth of his daughter