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

• How did Germans become Russian Germans?

• The departure of Germans from the USSR and CIS and Baltic countries

• Which immigrants from the former USSR are in question

• Distinguishing features of the adaption of Russian Germans in Germany

• Why have Russian Germans taken the migration crisis in Europe to heart?

• Instead of a conclusion

• Links to related topics

• Topics of previous issues

Russian demographic barometer

Migration in Russia, preliminary results 2015

• Migration growth due to population exchange with other countries decreased in 2015 by 12%

• Russia’s largest population increase came from migration exchange with Ukraine - 146 thousand people

• The volume of internal Russian migration increased in 2015 by 1.5%

• In 2015, the population of 78 regions increased due to migration exchange with CIS countries; that of 13, due to exchange with other regions of Russia

• The number of foreign nationals with a valid permit to work in Russia declined to 182 thousand people, and of those with a valid work license to 1,656,000 people at the end of 2015

Through the eyes of the analysts

• Re-emigration of Russian Germans from Germany to Russia: factors and the scale of the phenomenon

• The “cultural memory” of Russian-speaking migrants in Germany: the impact on the formation of new identities of immigrants from the former Soviet Union

• A peculiarity of Russian migration to Europe: flight of the creative class?

Q&A

• The problems most troubling the population

• Migrants on the Russian labor market: pros and cons

• What do people with disabilities expect from the labor market?

• Russian Gypsies: myths and reality

In the vastness of Russia

• In 2015 mortality decreased

• Mortality in Russia decreased at the start of 2016

• Medvedev has commissioned the development of a strategy for a phased increase in the minimum wage

• The Russian economy will remain in crisis until 2019

• The decision not to index pensions to working pensioners could be challenged

• Russians respond to the question of how much money is needed for a “normal life”

• Are there no doubts about the effectiveness of the maternity capital?

• A proposal to forgive mortgage debt after the birth of a child

• Does Russia need a tax on childlessness?

• Proposal in Duma to pay 250,000 rubles for not going through with an abortion

• Around 2,200 women in the Moscow region decided not to have an abortion in 2015

• The price of labor in Russia is no higher than in China

• State Duma has again taken up the question of the labor migration of Russians

• Siberia’s most attractive cities for labor migration have been named

• Russian President has abolished the FMS and the Federal Drug Control Service

• Is Russia’s migration policy, unlike the EU’s, impeccable?

• Russia may change its immigration laws in the event of an increased flow of refugees from Europe

• Golodets urges tightening of control over migrant workers

• Russia enters top 10 countries in terms of the outflow of dollar millionaires

• Russia has virtually eliminated the transmission of HIV from mother to child

• Eight thousand people die each year in Russia from a drug overdose

• In last eight years the incidence of tuberculosis in the Russian Federation has fallen by almost a third

• All-Russian National Front proposes to put into law the reduction of medical establishments with the consent of residents

• Rospotrebnadzor [Federal Service for Surveillance on Consumer Rights Protection and Human Wellbeing] sees no link between palm oil and obesity

Eurasian Panorama

• The population size of Belarus increased by 17,500 over past five years

• The number of births in Georgia has decreased by 2.3%

• The total fertility rate in Belarus in 2020 will come to 1.75

• Belarus planning to raise the retirement age by 3 years

• Prime Minister of Belarus calls on Russia to raise retirement age at the same time

• Average size of pensions in Moldova is below subsistence minimum

• Almost half of Tajiks spend sparingly on food

• Poverty level in Belarus grew to 5.1% in 2015

• In Kirgizia, 3,581 dollars of GDP per inhabitant

• Children of Kirgizia are most often adopted by citizens of the US, Sweden and the Netherlands

• In Moldova, a growing number of unemployed

• Unemployment benefit in Kirgizia is 250 soms

• In Kazakhstan it will be possible to receive ID cards and passports within two days

• Ukraine has changed rules for registration of residence

• Almost two-thirds of Ukrainians think from time to time about moving abroad

• In 2015, 168,600 people left Uzbekistan

• Over 7,800 people moved from Russia to Belarus in 2015

• Most migrant workers in Belarus are specialists in their field

• Chisinau and Moscow are ready to cooperate in the area of labor migration

• The pace of Tajik migrants returning to their homeland has slowed

• US has equipped AIDS prevention centers in Tajikistan

• In Georgia, more than 3,800 people have tuberculosis

• Mortality on the roads of Ukraine: 99 people per million inhabitants per year

• Azerbaijan is in the top ten countries in the fight against measles and rubella

• More than 1,600 children born in Belarus over the past 5 years with the help of IVF

World news

• The number of people over age 65 will more than double by 2050

• The number of inhabitants of Latvia has decreased by 25% over last 25 years

• The working age population of China will have shrunk by nearly 10% by 2030

• The fall in fertility in the modern world has been explained by the struggle to raise social status

• 43% of Britons in favor of their country leaving the EU

• Latvia has built the first three kilometers of a fence on the border with Russia

• Half of Belgians favor closing the borders

• Finns fear unemployment more than migrants

• Swedes losing interest in working in Norway

• Citizens of Ukraine will be given jobs in Israel

• More than 1.6 million migrants from EU countries have come to the UK

• In the UK, migrants find work more often than locals

• Belgian authorities will oblige migrants to sign “integration oath”

• Latvia to increase refugees’ per diem

• 480,000 refugees from Syria are in need of resettlement

• Thousands of migrants petition for asylum in Greece

• UN hopes to put an end to the HIV epidemic in the world by 2030

• Over 2.4 billion people worldwide are infected with tuberculosis

• Smoking increases susceptibility to tuberculosis

• Mortality from cardiovascular disease in Latvia is almost stable

• For the first time since 2001 road accident mortality in EU has risen

• In China, mortality from natural disasters has decreased

• Polish Prime Minister supports Catholics’ call to ban abortion

• Cancer patients live longer at home

• The number of obese people in the world is now greater than that of those underweight

The newspapers write about…

• “BBC Russkaya sluzhba” on the global demographic and migration challenge

• “Novaya gazeta” on migration and terrorism

• “The Globe and Mail” on migration, extremism and terrorism

• “Die Welt” on migrants in swimming pools

• “SwissInfo” on Islam in Switzerland

• “Vedomosti” on Russia’s migration policy

• “Kommersant” on work permits for migrants and the income of the treasury

• “RIDUS” on the attractiveness of Russia for migrants

• “OPEC.ru” on migrant remittances

• “EurasiaNet” on migrant remittances in 2015

• “Novaya gazeta” and “Polit.ru” on the challenges of a globalized economy

• “Rossiyskaya gazeta” and “RIAMO” on writing off part of a mortgage for the birth of children

• “Wonderzine” on the goals of the anti-abortion movement

• “Slon.ru” on fake fertility statistics in China

• “Kommersant” on population accounting in Russia

• “Izvestiya” on problems with the functioning of registry offices

• “Novaya gazeta” on the problems of Russian health care

• “Meditsinskaya gazeta” on problems of oncology and cancer

• “Zerkalo nedeli” on the health of Ukraine’s population

• “Unian.net” on the problem of tuberculosis in Ukraine

• “Novye Izvestiya” on the problems of HIV treatment for people without registration

• “BBC Russkaya sluzhba” on diabetes

• “Slon.ru” on the labor market in Russia

• “Kommersant” on the economic activeness of Russian women

• “Berlingske” on freelancing

• “Moskovskiy Komsomolets” on the retirement age in Russia

• “Gazeta.ru” on raising the retirement age in Belarus

• “Kommersant” on rental housing

• “Vedomosti” on strong universities and students

• “Carnegie Moscow Center” on caste riots in India

• “Expert Online” on endangered nations

• “Radio Svoboda” and “Lenta.ru” on life in the USSR and the “Soviet man”

Read books and magazines

• Wandering workers

• The crisis of multiculturalism and problems of national policy

• Family, children – life values and attitudes: the results of a sociological survey of the population in the regions of Russia

• Labor migration and social guarantees for workers in the Eurasian Economic Union

• Demography. A textbook and workshop for undergrads

• Through the pages of the journals “Voprosy statistiki” (“Statistical Issues”) and “Vrach” (“Doctor”)

• Contents of the journal “Genus”

Demographic digest

• Population Projections and Demographic Knowledge in France and Great Britain in the Postwar Period

• Economic conditions and the living arrangements of young adults: 1960 to 2011

• The most cited articles from the journal Population and Development Review

Profession: researcher

• Happy 85^th birthday to Zdenek Pavlik!

• Z. Pavlik. Theoretical issues of population policies and their solution in Czechoslovakia

• Z. Pavlik, A. Kvasha. Modern trends of population reproduction in the European Comecon member countries

• Alexander Nikolaevich Alexeyenko turns 60

• Alexeyenko. Ethno-demographic evolution and the problem of creating a sovereign sociocultural space in the Republic of Kazakhstan