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Current topic: Russian students in China

• China attracts foreign students

• Russians make up 3-5% of the total number of foreign students in Chinese universities

• What and where do they study?

• Two surveys of Russian students in China

• How to improve language training?

• General assessments of the learning environment

• Conclusion

• Links to related topics

• Topics of previous issues

Russian demographic barometer

Russia: preliminary demographic results of 2016 (Part I)

• Russia's population is growing for the eighth consecutive year. In 2016 it grew by 0.2%, coming to 146.8 million people as of January 1, 2017

• Natural increase declined to 5,300 people, with population growth still provided mainly by migration

• In 2016, 1,893,000 children were born in Russia - 2.6% less than in 2015

• In 2016 the number of registered marriages declined by 15%, divorces - 0.5%

Through the eyes of the analysts

• Human resources in science and technology: the state and efficiency of their use

• Approaches to the study of international migration of highly qualified professionals: mechanisms, prospects, consequences

• Educational trajectories of young people from the CIS in Moscow

Q&A

• Immigrants from the CIS to Russia: we love them, but…We hope they don’t come!

• Russians on pension savings and a dignified old age

• Job orientations

• If he beats you, it means he loves you? Russians on the decriminalization of familial abuse

In the vastness of Russia

• Russia records (natural) population increase for fourth year in a row

• Russia enters list of top ten countries with the lowest ratio of working-age persons to pensioners

• In Russia the age at which a woman has her first child has risen to 25.5 years

• Medvedev considers it necessary to stimulate fertility

• Average life expectancy of Russians will reach 74 years by 2020

• Government denies existence of a decision to raise the retirement age

• Russian schools need 6 million more places

• The number of large families in Moscow has doubled since 2010

• Ministry of Labor intends to bring minimum wage up to subsistence minimum within three years

• Russia to provide food stamps for low-income persons

• Ministry of Labor working on the issue of extending the maternity capital beyond 2018

• A proposal to exempt parents with many children from property tax

• Russia has allocated more than 33 million dollars to UNICEF over past six years

• Russia to review list of jobs not available to women

• Issuance of biometric passports will be organized in all Multifunctional Centers

• Lavrov speaks of steps to simplify the obtaining of Russian citizenship

• 71% of Russians don’t approve of simplifying procedures for CIS residents to obtain Russian citizenship

• Proposal to use point system for issuing permanent residence permits in Russia

• Migrants from the EAEC without work agreements will be expelled from Russia

• Tajikistan asks Russia not to expel unemployed migrants

• Interior Ministry proposes to introduce mandatory genomic registration of migrants

• In Russia the number of persons with HIV has risen by 5.4%

• The most difficult situation with HIV is in 6 regions of Russia

• Russian government allocates 20 billion rubles for HIV in 2017

• Excise tax to be used in fight against surrogate alcohol

• Death toll on Russia’s roads down by 12% in 2016

• Over 550 people died in traffic accidents on Moscow’s roads last year

• Ministry of Health has developed action plan to reduce child mortality

• The number of abortions in Russia has decreased by 13%

• Supreme Mufti signs petition to ban abortions in Russia

• Ministry of Health to increase the number of free IVF treatments by 30,000

• State Duma adopts law on decriminalization of familial abuse

• Nearly half of Russians support death penalty

World news

• Germany’s population reaches 82.8 million

• At the start of 2017 Lithuania’s population was 2,849,000 people

• By 2030 China’s population will reach 1.45 billion

• Over last 25 years the number of children in the population of Ukraine has decreased almost by half

• In Mongolia women having fewer babies

• In 2016 mortality in Finland exceeded fertility

• IMF insists on raising the retirement age in Ukraine

• Over 231 million Chinese citizens are internal migrant workers

• Chinese authorities have granted residence permits to 1,500 foreigners

• Argentina changes immigration laws

• Scottish Parliament is afraid of “losing migrants” due to Brexit

• Trump chides journalists for incorrect interpretation of migration decrees

• Trump to contest court decision against travel ban

• USA revokes 60,000 visas for citizens from seven Muslim-majority countries

• US Embassy has changed procedure for issuing visas to Russians due to Trump decree

• Iran stops issuing visas to Americans in response to Trump decree

• European Parliament supports abolition of visas to Georgia

• Over 30,000 repatriates arrived in Kazakhstan in 2016

• One third of Ukrainians ready to leave the country forever

• Ukrainians make up 57% of all labor migrants in Estonia

• In Serbia, it is considered that 90% of migrants go to the EU for economic reasons

• Trump says construction of Mexico wall will begin “immediately”

• Mexico ready to support illegal migrants in USA

• Merkel considers US decision to restrict Muslims from entering a mistake

• Canada ready to accept migrants banned by Trump from entering the US

• Number of new refugees in Sweden has decreased significantly

• Germany spent over Ђ21 billion on refugees in 2016

• Germany to pay 40 million euros to send refugees home

• Libya and Italy have agreed on a “humanitarian repatriation” of migrants

• European Union wants to cut off the migration route through Belarus

• Kirgizia expects reduction of “black list” for entering Russia

• Trump orders weekly publication of statistics on crimes committed by migrants

• Labor migrants in Kirgizia will be checked for HIV

• China begins massive campaign against HIV and AIDS

• Nearly 9 million people die from cancer each year

• In Latvia, infant mortality has increased

• The Netherlands have allocated $10 million to fund abortion abroad

• 50,000 women in Germany have undergone circumcision

• Mexican capital acquires its own constitution

The newspapers write about…

• “The Institute of Modern Russia” on world demography, tradition and modernization

• “Nakanune.RU” on demographic results of 2016

• “Izvestiya” on the demographic situation through the eyes of the Director of VTsIOM

• “Rossiyskaya gazeta” on the Russian demographic sheet

• “Life” on the life expectancy of Russians

• “REGNUM”, “Izvestiya” and “Gazeta.ru” on raising the retirement age

• “URA.RU” on temperature fluctuations and mortality

• “Meduza” on the AIDS capital

• “Rossiyskaya gazeta” on the Ministry of Health’s clarifications of the rules for living alongside people with HIV

• “RBK” on excise taxes on alcohol and alcohol-related mortality

• “CNN” on a non-smoking Finland by 2040

• “RBK” on a point system to attract migrants

• “Life” on medical care for migrants

• “Kommersant” on closing the Temporary Accommodation Centers for Ukrainian citizens

• “RBK” on Trump’s immigration policy

• “Bloomberg” on US inhospitality towards Muslims

• “Polit.ru” on a “Party of know-nothings”

• “Ekho Moskvy” on the “refugees” Jobs and Brin

• “Russkaya sluzhba BBC” on admitting refugees to Canada

• “The New York Times” on the attack on the mosque in Quebec

• “Die Welt” on punishment for female circumcision in Germany

• “Rossiyskaya gazeta” on the attitude to dual citizenship in Finland

• “Berlingske” on migrants and crime

• “PrimaMedia” on the Concept of Demographic Development of the Far East

• “Russkaya sluzhba BBC” on the Far East hectare

• “Ogonyok” on outsourcing welfare services

• “RBK” on compensation in the Federal Compulsory Medical Insurance Fund for nannies and tutors

• “Novye Izvestiya” on poverty among families with children

• “Kommersant” on the accessibility of higher education in the regions

• “Lenta.ru” on teenage aggression research

• “Novaya Gazeta” on crime statistics

• “Den” on the decriminalization of familial abuse

• “TASS” on preparations for the 2020 Census

• “Novye Izvestiya” on generations X, Y and Z

Read books and magazines

• The population of Russia 2014

• New meanings in educational strategies of young people: 50 years of research

• Export of Russian educational services

• The regions of Russia. Socio-economic indicators. 2016

• “Migration of peoples” LLC

• Through the pages of the journals “Aktualnye problemy Evropy” (“Urgent problems of Europe”) and “Regionalnye issledovaniya” (“Regional studies”)

• Contents of the journal “Population & Sociйtйs”

Demographic digest

• Fifty Years of Unintended Births: Education Gradients in Unintended Fertility in the US, 1960–2013

• Fertility Patterns of Native and Migrant Muslims in Europe

• BONUS: Do you use pie charts?

Profession: researcher

• Fertility of migrants and ethnic minorities. International seminar in Hannover

• In memory of Lyudmila Vyacheslavovna Makarova

The reading room

• The population of Russia 2014. 22^nd annual demographic report

Student page

• Contest for admission to the Master's program of the Higher School of Economics