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Current topic: How mortality decreased in Finland

• Introduction

• Spikes and fluctuations in mortality

• The influence of changes in mortality on the growth of life expectancy at different ages

• Gender differences in life expectancy

• The war years: demographic catastrophes

• Life expectancy and causes of death

• Conclusion

• Links to related topics

• Topics of previous issues

Russian demographic barometer

· Morbidity in Russia, 2015-2016

• In 2015, the primary incidence of diseases of the circulatory system continued to grow

• In 2016, the incidence of flu, acute respiratory viral and intestinal infections increased

• In 2016, the number of detected cases of HIV infection exceeded the number of detected cases of active tuberculosis by 21%

• In 2015, the incidence of alcoholism and drug addiction continued to decrease, but the incidence of drug addiction among adolescents increased

Through the eyes of the analysts

• An assessment of their health by men and women in Russia, Estonia, Lithuania and Finland

• Death from senility: the result of demographic policy or a tool for government bodies to simulate activity?

• “INVISIBLE PEOPLE”: the non-permanent population of remote rural areas of Eastern Finland

Take care of women!

• What Russians think about family planning

• Pregnancy and childbirth in Britain: free and without a doctor

• England has made progress in reducing teenage pregnancies

In the vastness of Russia

• Russian President sees opportunities to increase life expectancy to 76 years by 2025

• Fertility in Russia declined in 2016 and continues to decline

• Putin urges maintaining attention on demographic issues

• Migration is a factor that can slow the aging of the nation

• Have infant mortality rates turned out be lower in Russia than in Europe?

• Maternal mortality in Russia has decreased almost twofold since 2011

• Putin calls the issue of raising the retirement age subtle and sensitive

• Raising the retirement age will slightly increase the number of employed

• As of April 1, social pensions will increase by 1.5%

• Will Russian pensions turn into a benefit for the poor?

• Real Russians’ incomes have been falling for the last three years

• Golodets tells of working poor Russians

• Families with schoolchildren are the poorest category of citizens in the Russian Federation

• Ministry of Labor is against replacing maternity capital with monthly payments

• Experts at the Higher School of Economics warn of the threat of maintaining low labor productivity in Russia

• The number of persons receiving Russian citizenship in 2016 increased by 21%

• In State Duma, talk of possibly introducing a new principle of obtaining citizenship

• Proposal to replace certificate of renunciation of a previous citizenship by compatriots with a declaration of renunciation

• Rules for staying and working in Russia will not be changed for holders of passports from the People’s Republics of Donetsk and Luhansk

• Sberbank warns about the growth of migration to Russia due to economic growth

• The number of legal labor migrants in Russia is decreasing

• Last year did about 150,000 people return to Russia?

• Putin demands that channels of illegal migration be blocked

• Not all Moldovan migrants will be able to get legalized in the amnesty process

• Ministry of Health has changed its mind about banning smoking for those born after 2015

• People with HIV have been allowed to work as flight attendants

• Head of Rospotrebnadzor announces the end of the flu epidemic in Russia

• The number of abortions is declining, the effectiveness of IVF is growing

• 59% of RF citizens are against state intervention in making decisions about abortion

• The number of prisoners in Russia has reached a 17-year low

• Khloponin instructs Ministry of Finance to raise minimum price for vodka to 219 rubles

World news

• UN reports on the largest humanitarian crisis since 1945

• Azerbaijani parliament has voted to raise retirement age

• In 2016, China recorded 282 million migrants from rural areas

• For the sake of keeping residents in the provinces, Estonia introduces income tax benefits

• Migrants increasing the working-age population in US

• Migrants do not constitute a majority in any US industry

• Every two weeks Latvia “loses” a small town

• Uzbekistan changing the rules for deprivation of citizenship

• Turkish minister for EU Affairs calls for revision of the deal on migrants

• Poland tightening migration policy because of Ukrainian migrants

• Will Poland’s labor shortage be met by migrants from Uzbekistan?

• Mexico preparing jobs for repatriates from US

• Flow of illegal migrants from Mexico to US has decreased by 40%

• Bolivia convenes world conference on migration in response to Trump’s policy

• Germany will reduce the payment of child benefits to immigrants from a number of EU countries

• The cost of maintaining refugees in Germany has exceeded 20 billion euros

• Over 500,000 migrants have stayed in Germany after being denied refugee status

• Half of Canada’s residents favor deportation of illegal immigrants from the US

• Fewer and fewer refugees in Norway

• Sweden’s migration policy has led to a sharp decline in the number of refugees in the country

• Australia completes resettlement program for refugees from the Middle East

• President of the Czech Republic does not believe in the integration of Muslim refugees

• Czechs have EU’s most critical attitude to migrants

• Remittances from Kirgiz migrants abroad continue to decline

• The volume of remittances from Russia to Uzbekistan for the year came to $2.7 billion

• Ukraine has highest maternal mortality in Europe

• Ministers of several European countries have stood up for the reproductive rights of women

• Thousands of Irish women demonstrate against abortion ban

• Health Minister of Lithuania speaks out against abortion ban

• Germany to annul homosexuality convictions

The newspapers write about…

• “Kommersant-Vlast” on Russia’s demographic losses in the 20^th century

• “Novaya Gazeta” on losses in WW II

• “Rossiyskay Gazeta” on demographic problems of the future

• “Rossiyskaya Gazeta” on demographic results of 2016

• “Il Foglio” on demographic problems of Eastern Europe

• “Gazeta.ru” on the decrease in mortality from flu and doubts about it

• “Kommersant” on the role of migration in Russia’s demographic dynamics

• “RBK” on migration in Russia

• “Izvestiya” and “RIA Novosti” on citizenship and fictitious marriages

• “REGNUM” on foreign compatriots

• “Izvestiya”, “Kommersant FM”, “RBK” and “Novaya Gazeta” on expected simplifications of obtaining Russian citizenship

• “Rossiyskaya Gazeta” on the inclusion of the Krasnodar Territory in the program for the promotion of the resettlement of compatriots

• “REGNUM” on the expulsion of a female compatriot from the Altai Territory

• “Parlamentskaya Gazeta” on preferential mortgages for immigrants to the Far East

• “Gazeta.ru” on Saudi Arabia’s intentions to deport migrants

• “Russkaya Sluzhba BBC” on the Russian labor market

• “Mezhdunarodny diskussionny klub ‘Valday’” on human capital and the labor market

• “The Village” on remote work

• “Rossiyskaya Gazeta” on the consequences of raising the retirement age

• “Kommersant” on combating the cashing out of the maternity capital

• “Kommersant” on benefits to female students having babies

• “Gazeta.ru” on deferring the sentences of pregnant women

• “Lenta.ru” on repressions against children of “enemies of the people”

• “RBK” on Russia’s having Europe’s highest incarceration rate

• “Kommersant” on suicides of convicts

• “Meduza” on child suicides

• “Life” on murders of girls in India

• “Aftenposten” on “honor killings”

• “Life” on sperm donation

• “Lenta.ru” on traditional values

• “Gazeta.ru” and “Polit.ru” on an expected famine in Africa

• “Yle” on Finnish women

• “Pravda.ru” on Muscovites and non-Muscovites

• “Polit.ru” on a census via the Internet

• “Kommersant” on the consolidation and abolition of rural settlements

Read books and magazines

• Migrations of the population in Central Asia: past, present and future

• Tuberculosis surveillance and monitoring report in Europe 2017

• Global tuberculosis report 2016

• Slovakia. Health Systems in Transition

• Demographic yearbook of Poland 2016

• Through the pages of the journals “Gigiena i Sanitariya” (Hygiene and Sanitation”) and “Vestnik MGU. Seriya 6. Ekonomika” (“Bulletin of Moscow State University. Series 6. Economics”)

• Contents of the journal “Population”

Demographic digest

• Agency in Fertility Decisions in Western Europe During the Demographic Transition: A Comparative Perspective

• Region of Origin: Settlement Decisions of Turkish and Iranian Immigrants in Sweden, 1968–2001

• BONUS: What to do about predatory journals?

Profession: researcher

• International Conference “Labor Mobility and Migration Problems”

• The place of demography in the interdisciplinary orchestra. Seminar “Challenges of social development”

• A method for decomposing the differences between two values of a cumulative demographic measure. Meeting of the scientific seminar "Modern demography" of the International Laboratory for Population and Health Studies at the Higher School of Economics

• A demographic analysis of the Russian marriage market. Meeting of the Demographic section of the Central House of Scientists of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Satirical column

• Russia’s Ministry of Health in the Age of Great Geographical Discoveries