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Current topic: Marriage ties in Australia

• The coefficient of registered marriages is decreasing

• The mean age of those getting married is growing

• The number of non-religious marriages is growing

• Regional marriage differences

• People are divorcing later and more often by mutual consent

• Most divorces occur in the capital

• Links to current topic

• Topics of previous issues

Russian demographic barometer

Russia: preliminary demographic results,  2014 (Part II)

• In 2014, the number of deaths increased slightly, reaching 1.914 million people, or 13,1 ‰

• Female life expectancy increased to 76.5 years

• In 2014, mortality from cardiovascular diseases continued to decrease, but mortality from respiratory and digestive diseases increased

• The downward trend in mortality from external causes is weakening

• In January-December 2014 the infant mortality rate decreased by 9.8%, coming to 7,4 ‰

Through the eyes of the analysts

• The influence of social policy and parental values on family behavior and child-raising: a cross-country analysis

• Ethnodemographic features of family relations and inter-ethnic marriages at the turn of the century

• Christianity in modern China

• Remarriages among the elderly

On-line polling

• Do you need Demoscope?  Polling results

Q&A

• How the crisis is affecting Russians

• The labor market and the challenges of the crisis

• Employment expectations

• Raising the retirement age

• Gender equality in Russia has improved

• Marital infidelity: taboo or norm

• Ukrainian refugees in Russia

In the vastness of Russia

• In Russia in January the death rate exceeded the birth rate

• Moscow sees record fertility in 2014

• Female life expectancy in Russia has reached a historic high

• Ministry of Eastern Development wants to find out the reasons for the outflow of people from the Far Eastern Federal District

• Ministry of Labor is not preparing retirement age proposals

• Pension system should not be changed because of financial constraint due to financial limitations

• No longer paying pensions to working pensioners will save 30 billion rubles in 2016

• Social pensions will be indexed by 10.3% starting April 1

• Average salary in Moscow grew to 60 thousand rubles in 2014

• Federal Compulsory Medical Insurance Fund expenditures in 2015 will not be reduced

• Maternity capital cannot be used to pay off “quick loans”

• The number of Russians who believe in gender equality has increased by 1.5 times

• Debtors wishing to marry may be punished

• In 2014 over 58 thousand people in Moscow were not allowed to travel abroad due to debts

• The number of unemployed during the crisis will be about 2.4 million people

• Since the beginning of 2015 the number of unemployed in Moscow has increased by 3,000 people

• Amendments have been developed to law making it easier for refugees to obtain Russian citizenship

• Emigrants from USSR will be eligible

• for simplified procedure for obtaining Russian citizenship only by joining compatriot resettlement program    

• Putin signs amendments to law governing the work of foreigners in Russia

• Entry of foreign citizens into Russia has decreased by almost 20%

• Since the start of the year the budget has received 1.2 billion rubles for work licenses for migrants

• Migration center in New Moscow will work around the clock

• Almost 160,000 migrants have passed the comprehensive exam since the start of the year

• Proposal to exempt migrants from China from Russian language exam

• In Russia, maternity mortality has decreased by 4.5 times, child mortality by 3

• In 2014 in Russia 23 people died from tick-borne encephalitis

• Ministries have developed a plan to replace imported medicines for cancer patients with domestic ones

• In Russia, a new list of essential medicines

• Moscow authorities to discuss the installation in hospitals of “baby boxes” for parents giving up their children

• In Russia, a new kind of medical assistance

Eurasian panorama

• Gagauzia sees positive population growth, Moldavia sees negative

• The economic situation in Ukraine is complicated by the demographic crisis

• Humanitarian assistance program in Ukraine will affect 3.2 million people

• Ukraine’s Verkhovna Rada adopts amendments to state budget

• Ukraine receives first five billion dollar tranche from IMF

• Verkhovna Rada has temporarily restricted payments to working pensioners in Ukraine

• Transnistria has cut March wages and pensions by 30%

• Uzbekistan begins funding state program for older generation

• Decline in remittances from Russia will  have a negative impact on GDP of Tajikistan

• In 2014 the volume of remittances from Russia to Tajikistan decreased by $353 million

• Remittances from Russia to Armenia in January decreased by 43%

• Remittances from Russia to Moldavia fell by a third in January

• In Belarus, fewer people working, but more unemployed

• Uzbekistan doubling efforts to create new jobs

• Registering citizens from Armenia in Russia has been simplified

• Russia and Belarus sign new agreements in migration and social spheres

• Number of migrants in Ukraine has reached almost 1.8 million

• Yatseniuk considers estimate of the number of migrants from the Donbass inflated

• Belarus Ministry of Internal Affairs notes reduction in flow of refugees from Ukraine

• Refugees from south-east of Ukraine have begun returning to their homeland

• Kirgiz parliament is attending to the fate of migrant workers in Russia

• In Almaty, a growing number of migrants from Kirgizia and Uzbekistan

• In 2014, the health care system of Belarus was first checked by the WHO

World news

• Life expectancy in Syria has gone down by 20 years after four years of conflict

• In Lithuania, women live 11 years longer than men

• World’s oldest inhabitant celebrates her 117^th birthday

• UN Secretary-General calls for end to violence and discrimination against women

• Germany passes law granting women 30% of seats in company management

• Poverty level has increased the most in Montenegro ad Albania

• Average salary in Montenegro came to 482 euros in January

• Denmark records five-year employment peak

• US unemployment rate at end of February dropped to 5.6%

• Turkey may allow Russians to use internal passports to enter country

• Bulgaria no longer hoping to join Schengen in spring of 2015

• Latvians working abroad have sent home 600 million euros in past year

• Greece threatens to flood EU with migrants

• Europe and Persian Gulf should take more refugees from Syria

• More than 1.2 million people in Nigeria have been displaced

• US intends to deport about 150 Bosniaks

• 19% of Ukrainian migrants in Poland feel ethnic discrimination

• Number of Ebola victims in West Africa is close to 10 thousand

• Scientists have identified the countries most vulnerable to Ebola

• In 2015, India’s swine flu has killed more than a thousand people

• Sons’ risk of diabetes depends on age of mothers at birth

• WHO calls for reducing consumption of sugar to 5-10% of total required calories intake

• Latvia’s Saeima discusses enlisting  psychotherapists in fight against abortion

• French lawmakers to discuss issue of allowing euthanasia

• White House hopes that Supreme Court will not repeal health care reform

• Would it be possible to extend human life up to 500 years?

• Vatican calls for total ban on death penalty

• Pakistani authorities have completely removed moratorium on death penalty

• Slovenia allows same-sex couples to marry and adopt children

• In the near future will the Arctic ice “melt before our eyes”?

The newspapers write about…

• “RBK” and “Kommersant” on the retirement age

• “FINANCE.UA” on the impact of aging on the economy

• “Kommersant-Dengi” on longevity

• “Gigamir.net” on myths associated with aging

• “Delfi.It” on the problems of Lithuanian youth

• “Kommersant” on the job structure in Russia in the 2000s

• “Kommersant-Dengi” on the attitude of Russians to work

• “Rossiyskaya gazeta” on unemployment

• “Novye izvestiya” on unemployment and internal migration

• “Novye izvestiya” on saving money on social expenses

• “Vedomosti” on different kinds of inflation

• “Rossiyskaya gazeta” on regional differentiation of living standards in Russia

• “Kommersant” and “Novaya gazeta” on lines at FMS for work licenses

• “Kommersant” on extending work licenses for foreign workers

• “Kommersant” on the problems of Ukrainian refugees in Russia

• “Kommersant” on a scandalous case of statelessness

• “Rossiyskaya gazeta” on the departure of expatriates from Russia

• “Gigamir.net” on plans to reduce immigration to the UK

• “Foreign Affairs” on the problems of multiculturalism

• “Die Welt” on the changing racial composition of the US population

• “Kommersant” on the fears of medical tourism

• “Ekspert” on cancer rates and patient care

• “Meditsinskaya gazeta” on more effective breast cancer screening

• “Gazeta.ru” on the benefits of umbilical cord disinfection

• “Kommersant-Dengi” on breastfeeding

• “Forbes” and “Financial times” on gender equality

• “Panorama” on Kazakhstan’s gender equality strategy

• “Ekho” on the sexual activity of women in the CIS

• “Ekspert” on the global ranking of cities

• “Ekspert” on the population of London

• “Ekspert” on the pace of urban development

• “Atlantico” on the origin of European languages

• “The Guardian” on the Belarusian language

Read books and magazines

• The price of war.  Casualties on the Soviet-German front

• Global status report on noncommunicable diseases 2014

• Social status and the standard of living of the population of Russia.  2014

• The population of Ukraine for the year 2013

• Demographic agenda of modern Russia: structure and reproduction of the population

• Through the pages of the magazines “Sotsialnye aspekty zdorovya naseleniya” (“Social aspects of public health”) and “Vestnik obshchestvennovo mneniya” (“Journal of Public Opinion”)

• Contents of the journal “Population”

Profession: researcher

• On the 80^th birthday of Sergei Isaevich Golod

• S.I. Golod.  Prospects for the monogamous family: a comparative intercultural analysis

• Remembering Irina I. Shurygina

• I.I. Shurygina.  Teenage girls in Russia: an overview of statistical indicators

Students’ page

• April 11: Open Doors Day at the Institute of Demography