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Current topic: Why is a migrant not always a migrant’s friend, comrade and brother?

• A bolt from the blue?

• How many refugees are coming to Germany, and from where?

• A sociological digression: does a stranger “come today and stay tomorrow”?

• Immigration to Germany in time and space

• Links to related topics

• Topics of previous issues

Russian demographic barometer

Russia: preliminary demographic results of 2015 (Part II)

• In 2015, the number of deaths decreased by 0.1% to 1,911,000 or 13 ‰

• Life expectancy at birth rose to 71.4 years

• In 2015, mortality from diseases of the circulatory system and external causes continued to decrease

• Mortality from traffic accidents fell in 2015 by 15%

• In January-December 2015, infant mortality decreased by 12%, amounting to 6.5 ‰

• Compared with the year 2014, working-age mortality fell by 3%

Through the eyes of the analysts

• Muslim Integration in Europe: the political aspect

• Migration policy and collective identity: the experience of Russian-Germans in Germany

• The human capital of highly qualified Russian-speaking specialists in emigration: the trajectory of professional and career development of immigrants

• Gender characteristics and determinants of adaptive behavior of Russian-speaking migrants in Germany

Take care of women!

• Gender inequality while growing up

• Sexual behavior of 15-year-old adolescents according to international studies

In the vastness of Russia

• The population of St. Petersburg is 5,222,300 people

• The Perm region is in the top five regions in terms of demographic indicators

• The Krasnoyarsk region ranked second in Siberia in population growth

• Over the last quarter century 2 million inhabitants have left the Far East

• Rosstat reports 5.3% decrease in number of marriages in Russia in 2015

• By 2025 the number of school-age children will have increased by almost 3.5 million

• Economic bloc of the government once again talking about raising the retirement age

• Bank of Russia allows for yet another freezing of pension savings

• Reuters announces impending abolition of mandatory funded pension

• The number of children given up by mothers in maternity hospitals decreased by 20% in 2015

• Ministry of Education intends to make it easier for young mothers to enter university

• Draft law on military deferment for fathers of disabled children submitted in Duma

• The proportion of economically inactive young women in Russia is higher than in EU countries

• Disaster victims in Russia will not have to pay fee for new passport

• Migrants should live in normal conditions

• In the Kaluga region a move to change the law on registration of migrants

• In Russia are more than 1 million HIV-infection people

• Will the AIDS epidemic be stopped by 2030?

• Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation adopts new testing scheme for alcohol

• Ministry of Communications proposes to return alcohol and drug advertising to the media

• UK proposes punishment for illegal remote sales of alcohol

• A quarter of crimes in Moscow are committed under the influence of drugs and alcohol

• Mortality from tuberculosis in Moscow has fallen by a quarter in three years

• Is abortion a crime not only against the individual, but also against the state?

• Vladimir Putin criticizes Interior Ministry for worsening crime situation

• Half of participants in geography dictation failed

Eurasian panorama

• The population of Uzbekistan has reached 31.5 million

• Moldova ranks sixth in the world in the number of divorces per thousand people

• Submission of census data in Moldova has taken too long

• In Belarus, a proposal to gradually raise the retirement age starting January 1, 2017

• Lukashenko considers it fair if raising the retirement age affects everyone

• Retirement age in Transnistria may change for foreigners

• Abolishing the payment of pensions to working pensioners in Belarus is pointless

• Georgia to introduce a funded pension system

• Belarus does not plan to introduce mandatory funded pensions system

• Tajikistan bans marriages without medical documents

• Ukraine plans to legalize same-sex relationships in the form of civil partnerships

• In Georgia, bill against same-sex marriage to be discussed publicly

• In Armenia, citizens will receive financial aid in hiring nannies

• Georgia ranks 51^st on list of educated countries

• Uzbekistan takes 49^th place in happiness ranking of countries

• The most popular professions in Georgia

• Banning entry into Russia without health insurance will result in migrants moving into “the shadow”

• 2.3 million Ukrainians work abroad, the rest dream about it

• Migrant workers in Azerbaijan are predominantly Turks

• Quota for foreign professionals in Kirgizia for 2016 is set at 14,490 people

• Among CIS countries, Moldova is in 7^th place in terms of remittances from Russia

• Over 200 Armenian students will be able to study for free in Russian universities

• In Kirgizia in 2015 an increase in the incidence of tuberculosis among children

• In Moldova 10 people per week die from TB

• Belarus Ministry of Health is planning a 95% reduction in mortality from TB by 2035

• Belarus has received $11.8 million from Global Fund for TB treatment

• Ukraine needs health care reform

• Belarus will not move to mandatory medical insurance

• Medicines in Moldova will not get cheaper

World news

• In 2014 5,132,000 children were born in the EU

• The EU is ready to propose a visa-free regime to Turkey

• British statistical office is suspected of underreporting migration data

• In Belgium are more than one million immigrants

• About 2 million foreigners were recorded in Germany in 2015

• German companies are not ready to provide jobs for migrants

• Canada increases quota for receiving migrants

• Finland announces suspension of flow of migrants through Russia

• Danes are reluctant to accept more refugees

• Since the start of the year 467 migrants and refugees have died at sea

• EU to send illegal immigrants back to Turkey

• UN criticizes EU for agreement with Turkey on refugees

• Do migrants feel deceived by Europe?

• It’s better to quit smoking at once than gradually

• Alcohol in small doses does not bring health benefits

• President of Sierra Leone has blocked bill on abortion

• In 30 years the world will start to feel a food shortage

• By 2100 will 13.1 million people die in the US due to global warming?

• March 21: World Down Syndrome Day

• People with autism die sooner than others

• Russia allocates money to vaccinate two million inhabitants of Guinea against Ebola

• Mothers with postpartum depression do not wish to have more than two children

• Scientists recommend giving birth to your first child by the age of 30

• Is retirement good for your health?

• A happy marriage should be preceded by at least two years of dating

The newspapers write about…

• “The Washington Post” on the agreement between the EU and Turkey on migration

• “Gigamir.net” on migration issues

• “Jyllands-Posten” on Denmark’s problems with migrants

• “km.ru” on how Europe is Russia yesterday

• “Slon.ru” on immigrants and elections in the USA

• “Kommersant” on migrants starting businesses

• “Yle” on the attitude of Russians to Finland

• “Die Welt” on the climatic cause of migration from the Middle East

• “FINANCE.UA” on labor migration from Ukraine

• “Kommersant” on medical policies for migrants

• “Nezavisimaya gazeta” on the Russian exam for foreigners

• “Nezavisimaya gazeta” on delays of wages to migrant workers

• “Vesti. Ekonomika” on demographics and the economy

• “Izvestiya” on demographic results of 2015

• “Izvestiya” on fertility in Russia

• “Komsomolskaya Pravda” on the demographic achievements of the Moscow authorities

• “inforeactor.ru” on “liberal” demographic myths

• “km.ru” on moving the capital to the Far East

• “IA EAOMedia” on the demographic situation in the Jewish Autonomous Region

• “Nezavisimaya gazeta” on the potential of city dwellers moving to the country

• “Kommersant” on the ineffectiveness of the maternity capital program

• “Davydov. Indeks” on a million lives for the maternity capital

• “Meditsinskaya gazeta” on a “National strategy for the protection of public health and medical assistance”

• “Meditsinskaya gazeta” on demographics and the problems of health care

• “Kommersant” on the HIV/AIDS problem in Russia

• “Meditsinskaya gazeta” on the transmission of HIV from mother to child

• “Sovietskaya Belorussiya” on infant mortality in Belarus

• “Polit.Ru” on screening and over-diagnoses

• “Ekonomicheskie izvestiya” and “Obozrevatel.com” on a reduction in the number of hospital beds in Ukraine

• “Vatican Insider” on palliative care

• “Novye izvestiya” on organ donation

• “Nezavisimaya gazeta” on nephrological diseases

• “Vedomosti” on financing labor protection

• “Izvestiya” and “Rossiyskaya gazeta” on raising the retirement age

• “Novosti Belarusi” and “Belarus sevodnya” on raising the retirement age in Belarus

• “Kommersant” on poverty in Russia

• “Pravda.Ru” on lowering the subsistence minimum

• “BBC Russkaya sluzhba” on twins from different fathers

• “Lenta.ru” on a film about the consequences of the fall of morals

• “BBC Russkaya sluzhba” on teaching “family studies” in school

• “Paruskg.info” on Kirgiz “conservative patriots”

• “Le Huffington Post” on “the great dream of DAESH”

Read books and magazines

• The family in Russia and China: the process of modernization

• The present and future of the family in a changing world

• What’s new in foreign demography

• Women and men of the Kirgiz Republic

• World population

• Through the pages of the journals “Narodonaseleniye” (“Population”) and “Terapevticheskiy arkhiv” (“Therapeutic Archives”

• Contents of the journal “Studies in Family Planning”

Demographic digest

• The huge reduction in adult male mortality in Belarus and Russia: is it attributable to anti-alcohol measures?

• Does selection of mortality model make a difference in projecting population ageing?

• Education and Lifetime Earnings in the United States

• Two articles consisting of a single phrase

Profession: researcher

• Migration policy in Russia: a new stage? Meeting of the Demographic section of the Central House of Scientists of the RAS

• “HIV in Russia”. A seminar at the HSE Institute of Demography

• Happy anniversary to Vladimir Jose Echenique

• In memory of John Charles Caldwell

Student page

• Selected essays: Generalized socio-demographic portrait of a Russian in Kazakhstan