## 709-710

Current topic: Such is old age…

• Happiness index as a measure of social inclusion

• Problems of the “third age”

• The availability of health care services

• Material security

• Horizontal communication and social activity

• All alone

• Conclusions

• Links to related topics

• Topics of previous issues

Global demographic barometer

The aging of the population and sustainable development

• The share of the elderly population will continue to grow in the coming decades in all regions of the world

• The proportion of the world’s population 65 and older is 1% in the UAE and 27% in Japan

• More and more countries are concerned about the aging of the population

• The life of the elderly varies significantly by region of the world

Through the eyes of the analysts

• “Normal labor potential” and age discrimination

• Labor activity of the retirement-age population as a factor of social and economic development of the territory

• Labor activity of a population’s “third age” in conditions of demographic aging of the population (using the example of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia))

• The social exclusion of older age groups: socio-economic aspects

Take care of women!

• HIV testing at home in 20 minutes

• Rospotrebnadzor Head: HIV testing in the regions does not reveal risk groups

• Distance education in family planning

In the vastness of Russia

• The demographic situation in Russia is on the verge of a negative turning point

• The number of births is rapidly declining

• Declining fertility: the most difficult challenge in 2017

• In Moscow over past 10 months more than 11,000 marriages with foreigners

• The poverty rate in Russia is much higher than the official one

• Government adopts strategy of action in the interests of senior citizens

• Most Russians are not sure their state pension will suffice

• The funded part of the pension is being “frozen” for the years 2017-2019

• Ministry of Labor will propose to extend the maternity capital after 2018

• The Government has increased support for large families

• Topilin urges the regions to continue payout for third child

• Proposal in Russia to cancel the monetization of benefits

• Golikova says Reserve Fund will be completely exhausted in 2017

• Over 50% of Russians would like their children to work in defense and

• law enforcement agencies

• State Duma gives citizens of ex-USSR three more years to receive Russian citizenship

• State Duma asked to simplify the acquisition of Russian citizenship even further

• Should the issuing of permanent residence permits not be left to a lottery?

• The number of asylum requests in the USA has reached a 22-year high

• Seasonal migrant workers are again drawn to Russia

• Highly skilled foreign workers are leaving St Petersburg

• Work licenses paid for by migrants have brought 1.5 times more than last year into budget coffers

• Putin instructs government to determine which state body should be responsible for the adaptation of migrants

• Interior Ministry reports shortage of funds for the expulsion of migrant workers from the country

• Kuban “tops” rating of Russia’s regions by traffic mortality

• Russia’s current rates of infant and maternal mortality are the lowest in the country’s history

• Golodets instructs Ministry of Health to establish order in the treatment of cancer patients

• The annual number of abortions in Russia has decreased by 200,000 since 2012

• Government rejects idea of excluding abortion from the Compulsory Health Insurance system

• Medical establishments will be required to obtain special license for abortions

• Flu epidemic has begun in Russia

• Russians will be able to officially renounce posthumous organ donation

• Starting in 2018 over 1 million people will receive high-tech medical care

• In Russia, a proposal to create a register of the mentally ill

• Russia’s Health Care system likened to that of third world countries

• Russia and Japan will cooperate in three areas of health care

• In 2018, salaries of doctors will be twice the national average

• Half of Russian women are against the decriminalization of family beatings

• Russians consider traditional values the key to a happy life

World news

• World population exceeds 7.4 billion people

• Ukraine’s population over the next 20 years will shrink by 20%

• Life expectancy in the US has dropped for the first time in 20 years

• China registers highest fertility since the beginning of the 21 ^st century

• Chinese researchers recommend that country continue easing demographic policy

• By 2020, 20% of South Korea’s population will be over 65

• In 2055 the number of China’s elderly will reach 400 million

• Lithuania has lost almost one million inhabitants since gaining independence

• Will Estonia’s census based on an electronic register lead to political errors?

• EU to allocate €36 million to fight poverty

• Japanese Government fighting labor shortages in agriculture with the help of foreigners

• The issue of visa liberalization is important not only for Georgia but also for the EU

• Will the abolition of visas to the EU complicate Georgia’s migration situation?

• Mexico does not intend to pay for a wall on the border with the US

• Brexit: Is it migration control?

• UK records highest migration from EU countries

• EU countries stress the importance of implementing migration agreements with Turkey

• Germans consider migrants the country’s main problem

• Merkel promises not to allow an influx of refugees into Germany

• Bundestag tightens requirements for social benefits for migrants

• Merkel seeks partial ban of the burqa and the niqab

• UN reports abductions, rape and torture of migrants in Libya

• Lithuania does not want to make it easier for foreigners to get jobs

• Tajikistan asks Russia to facilitate the legalization of Tajik migrants

• Tajikistan has developed a Russian History textbook for migrants

• In Kirgizia, protest against removing “Ethnic group” from passports

• Canada does not advise its citizens to visit the North Caucasus and the south of Russia

• One in three men and one in four women in the world are victims of cancer

• Maternal mortality in Latvia is the highest in the EU

• Berlin: Germany’s best city in terms of infant and maternal mortality

• British scientists are pushing for children from three parents

• In France, a proposal to introduce penalties for anti-abortion agitation

The newspapers write about…

• “Parlamentskaya Gazeta” on the demographic situation in Russia

• “Kommersant” on the Government’s lack of support for banning abortions from Compulsory Health Insurance

• “Metro” and “Pravmir” on abortion

• “Ekho Moskvy” on the non-production of condoms in Bogolyubovo

• “Parlamentskaya Gazeta” on baby boxes

• “Lenta.ru” on marriage, divorce and alimony in the USSR

• “RBK” on the real costs of education and health

• “Rossiyskaya Gazeta” on Russian healthcare

• “Russkaya Sluzhba BBC” on Russia’s low healthcare rating

• “RBK” on the closing of rural hospitals

• ‘Life” on the benefits of mass health examinations and the price of a human life

• “Nezavisimaya Gazeta” on drug insurance

• “Otkrytaya Rossiya” on the myth of Russian drunkenness

• “Novaya Gazeta” on surrogate alcohol

• “Nezavisimaya Gazeta” on NGOs and the AIDS problem in Russia

• “Kommersant” on how Chapaevsk is combatting AIDS and health workers

• “Kommersant” and “RIA Novosti” on migration in Russia

• “Izvestiya” on the lowering of quotas for foreign workers

• “Life” on medical treatment of Ukrainian refugees

• “Vedomosti” on Trump’s anti-immigration policy

• “Meduza” on the abolition of the kafala system in Qatar

• “PolitKlinika” on migration in Kirgizia

• “Radio Praha” on emigration from Russia

• “Polit.ru” on the Russian nation

• “Publico.es” on Soviet and post-Soviet conflicts

• “Izvestiya” on Russian human capital

• “Polit.ru” on poverty and social support

• “Russkaya Sluzhba BBC” on the “working poor” in the UK

• “Vesti Ekonomika” on 25 million jobs for Americans

• “Kommersant-Dengi” on religion and prosperity

• “Gazeta.Ru” on reclusive hikikomori

• “Kommersant-Dengi” on geriatrics

• “RBK” on non-Moscow tenants in Moscow

• “Polit.ru” on Cherepovets: no longer a single-industry town

• “Kommersant” on a ranking of the environmental management of cities

• “Novye Izvestiya” on useless medicines

• “Novye Izvestiya” on the benefits of playing Pokemon

Read books and magazines

• World Population 2016

• Republic of Bashkortostan. Demographic report. Issue 2

• OECD labour force statistics 2015

• The state of cancer care in Russia in 2015

• Socially significant disease of Russia’s population in 2015

• Through the pages of the journals “Demograficheskoye Obozreniye” ("Demographic Review") and “Ekonomika i organizatsiya promyshlennovo proizvodstva (EKO)” ("Economics and Organization of Industrial Production (IVF)")

• Contents of the journal “International Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health”

Demographic Digest

• A Tale of Two Crises: Migration and Terrorism after the Paris Attacks

• Trends in adult body-mass index in 200 countries from 1975 to 2014: a pooled analysis of 1698 population-based measurement studies with 19·2 million participants

• BONUS: Post-publication reviewing in Demography

Profession: researcher

• Demography at the Russian Economic Congress

• The contribution of B.Ts. Urlanis to the development of demographic science. Meeting of the Demographic section of the Central House of Scientists of the RAS

• 120 years since the birth of Yuri Avksentevich Korchak-Chepurkovsky

• Y.A. Korchak-Chepurkovsky. On the influence of individual causes of death on mortality in the working age

New in the reading room

"Demographic studies" series

• Factors of Fertility (1971)

• Fertility (problems in its study) (1976)

Satirical article

• The Snow Maiden under the roof. A Christmas story