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Current topic: Mortality and life expectancy in Russia: What’s new? Part two.

• What happened to Russian mortality in 2014

• Infant mortality: the success is there, but the gap persists

• The components of infant mortality and their dynamics

• The effect of the transition to the new definition of live birth

• The dynamics of infant mortality in the regions

• Causes of infant death

• Links to related issues

• Topics of previous issues

Russian demographic barometer

Criminality in Russia, 2015

• In 2015, the number of crimes registered in Russia and of their victims increased

• The number of crimes related to drug trafficking has decreased

• The number of murders and attempted murders has continued to decline, reaching 8 per 100,000 people in 2015

• The number of deaths in road accidents dropped by 15% compared to 2014, for a total of 23,000 people

• Two-thirds of those committing crimes in 2015 had no permanent source of income; 28% already had criminal records

• The number of persons convicted of crimes in 2015 exceeded 733,000 people, which is 2% more than in 2014

• As of January 1, 2016, 639,900 people were incarcerated

Through the eyes of the analysts

• The information potential of the statistics of multiple causes of death

• The irreversible loss of Russia’s population as a result of drug use in 2000-2011

• The consumption of alcohol on the eve of death and mortality from injuries, poisonings and other consequences of the effect of external causes

Q&A

• Only one in ten Russians considers that the retirement age should be raised

• A time of faith or of superstition?

• Portrait of a Russian believer

• Women’s health: we know the rules. But do we not follow them?

• Possessing a foreign travel passport and traveling abroad

In the vastness of Russia

• In the first quarter the absolute number of births increased by 0.7%

• Action plan approved for implementation of phase III of the Conception of demographic policy

• State Duma adopts law on raising the retirement age of officials

• 83% of Russians are against raising the retirement age

• Federation Council supports bill making divorce more difficult

• Putin instructs government to consider a “maternal salary”

• Kudrin believes in the growth of the Russian economy without painful reforms

• Ministry of Labor announces absence of poor pensioners in Russia

• The crisis has had a negative impact on the implementation of the May decrees

• Putin signs law on “The Far East hectare”

• Ministry of Labor admits possibility of introducing “parasite tax” in Russia

• 72% of Russians do not have a foreign travel passport

• Montenegro has tripled the length of a visa-free stay of Russians on its territory

• Russia to continue fight against drunkenness

• State Duma refuses to allow drug testing of minors without parental consent

• In Russia the number of children killed in traffic accidents is three times higher than in EU countries

• A move to reduce the number of abortions by 10% within 4 years

• Ministry of Health proposes to make abortions a paid service

• Russian Orthodox Church is ready to raise the children of women refusing to have abortion

• In Russia large numbers of seriously ill children being stripped of their disability status

• Relatives of patients will be allowed into intensive care

• In Russia only a third of the necessary number of organ transplants are carried out

• Only 29% of women visit a gynecologist twice a year

• Russians believe in the future of nuclear power, but question its safety

Eurasian panorama

• The population of Georgia has shrunk by 15% over 12 years

• Georgia publishes results of census

• The population size of Belarus has increased to 9,498,700

• According to Lukashenko, Belarus has not seen such fertility in Belarus for 20 years

• Another 1,116 children will become godchildren of the Georgian Patriarch

• Kirgiz citizens have begun marrying later

• Citizens of Georgia will be helped to start families

• Divorce annuls registration in Tashkent

• Large-scale study of family relations in Belarus will start in January 2017

• The number of pensioners in Azerbaijan has been announced

• Nothing extraordinary in the issue of raising the retirement age in Belarus

• 38% of Georgians live below the poverty line

• Ukrainians have become 22% poorer over past year

• Average age of working people in Belarus is 41 years

• Registration in Ukraine will be in the charge of local authorities

• Could Uzbek migrants be deprived of citizenship at home?

• Is the number of Tajik migrant workers growing again?

• The flow of remittances to Moldova continues to decline

• In Georgia over 2,200 people being treated for drug addiction

• Each year in Moldova more than 400 people commit suicide

• Since independence, the infant mortality rate in Kazakhstan has decreased by 3 times

• Selective abortions in Armenia remain a problem

• Same-sex marriages will not be legalized in Ukraine

• Nazarbayev signs law on the chemical castration of pedophiles

World news

• Over the past 5 years China’s population has increased by 33,770,000 people

• The population of Bulgaria is 7,153,784 people

• The population of Latvia is 1,967,200 people

• The population of Estonia has increased mainly due to the migration of EU citizens

• Nearly half of the planet’s Jewish population lives in Israel

• Lithuania has the lowest life expectancy in the EU

• The number of children in Japan has fallen to its lowest level since 1950

• In some border areas China allows three children per family

• In Spain, about 6.5 million people are single

• Greek Parliament approves pension reform

• German Treasury demands increase in retirement age

• Pensions in Germany will rise significantly

• Turkey cancels visas for Schengen countries

• European Commission approves abolition of visas with Turkey

• UN predicts growth of number of migrants in the world

• Latvia’s Saeima approves amendments to the Immigration Law

• British Interior Ministry reduces the number of foreign students in the country

• Is it profitable for Polish employers to hire Ukrainians?

• Czech Republic creates special unit to combat illegal migration

• 400,000 refugee children in the EU have been deprived of legal status

• More than 187,000 migrants have arrived in Europe via the Mediterranean since the beginning of the year

• Finland opposes the admission of refugees on a mandatory basis

• Most French people consider migrants a source of rising crime

• “The older the Estonian, the more intolerant he is of Non-Estonians”

• Mayor of Madrid considers refugees a treasure for Europe

• Medical errors named as one of the main causes of death in the USA

• Ban on abortions in Lithuania will force authorities to pay for them abroad

• Do widows live longer than married women?

• Part of the Middle East and North Africa will be uninhabitable by 2050

• People have begun having sex less often than 30 years ago

The newspapers write about…

• “Meditsinskaya gazeta” on Russia’s demographic achievements

• “Belorusskaya Niva” on Belarus’ demographic achievements

• “Meditsinskaya gazeta” on the success of Russian health care

• “Kommersant FM” on the dissatisfaction of Russians with the health care system

• “RBK” on telemedicine

• “Den’” on a plan to improve the health of the Ukrainian nation

• “Rossiyskaya gazeta” and “Kommersant-Dengi” on pension reform

• “Vedomosti” on dismantling Russia’s pension system

• “Lenta.ru” on preparing Russians for a higher retirement age

• “Novy Den’” on the problems of Italy’s pension system

• “Snob” on the deep meaning of pensions and retirement age

• “Novye Izvestiya” on the problems of caring for adults

• “Project Syndicate” on the “era of migration”

• “Berlingske” on the problems of migrants in Europe

• “UNIAN” on an exchange of Syrian refugees

• “Aftenposten” on myths about refugees

• “Izvestiya” on the problems of Russia’s migration policy

• “Vedomosti” on deportation as a means of migration policy

• “Vedomosti” on convicts instead of labor migrants

• “Kommersant” on the problems of resettling compatriots

• “Open Democracy” on the problems of resettlers in Ukraine

• “The Washington Post” and “Voennoye Obozreniye” on the free Far East hectare

• “Al Ittihad” on Europe and Islam

• “Paruskg.info” on the harmfulness of secularism in America

• “Life.ru” on fertility during the War

• “Kommersant” and “IA REGNUM” on the real danger of radiation

• “BBC” on the nature of mono- and polygamy

Read books and magazines

• Impact of external factors – stress - morbidity

• Israel. Health systems in transition

• Social policy for shaping the attitudes of youth to health

• Malignant neoplasms in Russia in 2014 (morbidity and mortality)

• Socially significant diseases of Russia’s population in 2014

• Through the pages of the journals “Zdravookhraneniye Rossiyskoy Federatsii” (“Health care of the Russian Federation”) and “Mir Rossii. Sotsiologiya i etnologiya” (“World of Russia. Sociology and ethnology”)

• Contents of the “Journal of Population Economics”

Demographic digest

• Projections of older immigrants in France, 2008–2028. Population, space and place

• Demographic transformations among ex-Soviet migrants in Israel

• Long-term contribution of immigration to population renewal in Canada: A simulation

• Bonus: Will the number of little LEGO men overtake the Earth’s population?

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