Contents of Demoscope Weekly issue

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Current topic: Ethno-demographic balance in the South Caucasus

  • The ethno-demographic balance of countries is changing

  • The ethnic structure of Azerbaijan

  • The ethnic structure of Georgia

  • The ethnic structure of Armenia

  • The ethnic groups of the three countries

  • Links to related topics

  • Topics of previous issues

Russian demographic barometer

Crime in Russia, 2016

  • In 2016, the decline in Russia of the number of crimes and their victims resumed

  • An increase in the number of crimes of a terrorist nature and related arms trafficking, fraud and extortion

  • The number of murders and assassination attempts continues to decline, dropping in 2016 below 8 per 100,000 people

  • The number of deaths in traffic accidents dropped in 2016 by 13%, the number of those injured - by 5%

  • In 2016, 1,016,000 people committed crimes

  • In 2016, 773,000 people were found guilty and given various sentences

  • At the beginning of 2017, 630,000 people were being held in places of confinement

Through the eyes of the analysts

  • Migration and resettlement of Dargins on the plains of Ciscaucasia: stages, factors, modern features of adaptation

  • Trust and distrust in interethnic relations

  • The ethno-political situation in the North Caucasus: an expert assessment

Q&A

  • Migration policy

  • The most attractive professions

  • Orphans

  • The interests of the state and human rights

In the vastness of Russia

  • Russia facing a demographic decline

  • Fertility in Russia has decreased by 10% over 2 months

  • The number of large families in Russia has increased by 25% over six years

  • St. Petersburg has reached its highest fertility rate in 25 years

  • In the Arctic, the number of indigenous people is growing and the structure of migration is changing

  • Sochi has grown by 200,000 people over three years

  • Putin allows use of internet for census

  • The rich in Russia earn 15 times more than the poor

  • The subsistence minimum has fallen by 200 rubles

  • Topilin is for keeping the maternity capital in its present form

  • Kindergartens are inaccessible for 35% of Russian children

  • Female university students having babies will be able to study for free

  • An oversupply of labour is predicted for Russia

  • The number of people receiving Russian citizenship has increased over the past five years

  • Acquisition of Russian citizenship by relatives of deportees from the Crimea is being simplified

  • ver last 10 years more than 500,000 compatriots have returned to Russia

  • Migrants from Tajikistan will be able to come out of the shadows by the end of April

  • Russia extends “migration amnesty” for Moldovan migrant workers

  • In Novosibirsk, the number of professions prohibited for migrants has doubled

  • Russia’s heaviest drinking regions named

  • Muscovites have begun drinking less because of crisis

  • Proposal in State Duma to bring back sobering-up stations

  • Rospotrebnadzor extends ban on sale of non-food alcohol products

  • Mortality from tuberculosis decreased by nearly 17% in 2016

  • Ministry of Health proposes three options for testing children for tuberculosis

  • Bill on the prohibition of surrogate motherhood submitted to State Duma

  • Will the regions themselves decide whether to install baby boxes?

World news

  • By 2050 the population of Azerbaijan will increase by 1.4 times

  • Bulgarians may become a minority in their country in several decades

  • In China, a new fertility record

  • Fertility in Latvia falls again

  • Sparsely populated regions make up 45% of the area of Lithuania

  • US ceases funding for United Nations Population Fund

  • In Germany, a move to raise the age of marriage to 18 years

  • About a third of children in Afghanistan do not attend school

  • US authorities when issuing visas will check social network accounts

  • EU begins visa-free regime for Georgians

  • Lithuanian parliament will fight the mass exodus of its people

  • Trump announces decrease in the influx of migrants to the US

  • Merkel believes Europe will find solution to migration problems

  • European Commission urges EU countries to fulfill their obligations to receive refugees

  • Visegrad Group criticizes EU migration policy

  • Austria cannot accept more refugees

  • Merkel urges refugees to settle in villages

  • Denmark plans to ban entry of refugee children

  • Danish government asks the population to participate in the fight against illegal migrants

  • Issuing driver’s licenses to illegal migrants has improved the situation on US roads

  • Argentina offers programs to help Syrian migrants

  • European Union intends to catch illegal migrants at the borders of Libya

  • Over past year more than 10,000 Chinese citizens have received work permits in Kirgizia

  • 40% of foreigners in Japan are discriminated against

  • Arabic has become the third most widely spoken foreign language in Finland

  • Austria bans burqa in public places

  • Lithuania takes 2nd place in Europe in terms of alcohol consumption

  • Indian authorities have further restricted the sale of alcohol

  • WHO declares a huge number of medical interventions unnecessary

  • El Salvador wants to abolish total ban on abortion

  • UN calls on Ireland to abolish abortion legislation

The newspapers write about…

  • “Ridus” on Russia’s demographic problems

  • “Rosbalt”, “Moskovskiy Komsomolets” and “Rosbalt” on the increase of mortality

  • “Gazeta.ru” on the growth of life expectancy

  • “Novye Izvestiya” on “abolishing” Mantoux tests and obscurantism

  • “Foreign Policy” on the problems of people living with HIV in Ukraine

  • “Gazeta.ru” on the bill to ban surrogate motherhood

  • “Gazeta.ru” on the maternity capital

  • “Lenta.ru” on the maternity capital and poverty of families

  • “Moskovskiy Komsomolets” on Russian poverty

  • “Rosbalt” on refusals of old-age pensions

  • “Vedomosti” on the social pension

  • “Sputnik” on the growth of Tajikistan’s population as a problem

  • “Jyllands-Posten” and “Atlantico” on the growth of Africa’s population and migration

  • “Politiken” on EU refugee policy

  • “RT na russkom” on illegal DREAMer immigrants in the USA

  • “EurasiaNet” on the brain drain from Russia

  • “Deutsche Welle”, “Komsomolskaya Pravda” and “Rossiyskaya Gazeta” on Russian citizenship and problems with it

  • “Rossiyskaya Gazeta” on Russia’s Human Development Index

  • “Forbes Women” on women’s emancipation

  • “Ogonyok” on national identity and genes

  • “Vedomosti” and “Novaya Gazeta” on the Centennial of the abolition of the Pale of Settlement

  • “EurasiaNet” on plastic surgery and medical tourism in Armenia

  • “Nautilus” on evolution for entertainment

Read books and magazines

  • Demography of Russia. From the past to the present

  • Young people in the Commonwealth of Independent States: a statistical portrait

  • Ethnic aspects of urbanization in Russia

  • Medico-demographic indicators of the Russian Federation in 2015

  • Women and men – working and living partnership

  • Through the pages of the journals “Zdravookhraneniye Rossiyskoy Federatsii” (“Public Health of the Russian Federation”) and “Profilakticheskaya Meditsina” (“Preventive Medicine”)

  • Contents of the journal “Demography”

Demographic digest

  • The End of Hypergamy: Global Trends and Implications

  • Microbes and markets: was the Black Death an economic revolution?

  • BONUS: What does population density look like?

Profession: researcher

  • 125 years since the birth of Avdei Ilich Gozulov

  • A.I. Gozulov on the history of Russian population statistics

 
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