Contents of Demoscope Weekly issue

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Current topic: Nuptiality and fertility without gender double standards

  • Introduction

  • The contradiction between fertility rates calculated for men and women as a problem of gender double standards

  • Gender double standards in the study of nuptiality

  • The method of marriage potentials as a way to avoid gender double standards

  • Is the decrease in the number of registered marriages compensated by the growth in the number of unregistered partnerships?

  • Conclusions

  • Links to related topics

  • Topics of previous issues

European demographic barometer

Marriage in the EU-28, 1990-2015

  • The number of marriages is declining, that of divorces - growing

  • The share of first marriages is decreasing, that of second marriages – increasing

  • The average age at first marriage is increasing

  • In half of the EU-28 countries, total nuptiality for first marriages of men has fallen below 0.5

  • Nuptiality continues to decline and "grow old"

Through the eyes of the analysts

  • Cohabitation in Russia: an intermediate link or a legitimate institution

  • The institution of the family in Russia: on the road to transformation

  • Current problems of nuptiality and the marital status of the Russian population from the perspective of gender

Take care of women!

  • Statement by the UNFPA on the US decision to discontinue financing

  • The US administration’s attack on reproductive rights

In the vastness of Russia

  • In Russia, life expectancy reaches 72 years for first time ever

  • Medvedev gives instructions to increase life expectancy in Russia by 2025

  • In Moscow, average life expectancy has reached 77 years

  • Kudrin predicts a decline in Russia’s working age population

  • In Russia, 13% of the population is below the poverty line

  • Russians consider poor those with a monthly income below 15,506 rubles per person

  • A point system will ensure the growth of pensions up to 40% of one’s salary

  • The most common profession in Russia is that of driver

  • Putin threatens to deprive migrants of Russian citizenship for extremism

  • State Duma may expand the grounds for granting political asylum

  • Russia’s migration policy will not get tougher

  • St. Petersburg authorities propose to simplify entry of foreigners

  • In 2016, foreigners were granted 30% fewer work permits than in 2015

  • Government approves rules for keeping register of persons with HIV

  • Smoking “killed” over 280,000 Russians in 2015

  • Russians have begun to drink and smoke less

  • In Russia, 5.5% of the population suffers from depression

  • Golodets instructs Ministry of Health to “work on mistakes” in the treatment of strokes and tumors

  • Russians prefer self-treatment for headaches and colds

  • Incidence of influenza has been reduced by a factor of 10 over last 10 years

  • According to Skvortsova, no one can be deprived of an OMI policy

  • Skvortsova reports a decrease of nearly 60,000 in the number of abortions

  • The number of free IVFs in 2017 will grow by almost 15,000

  • State Duma allows to choose one’s form of sick leave

  • Bill on telemedicine has been submitted to State Duma

  • 1.5% increase on prices for essential drugs

  • Medvedev advocates increasing the production of disposable medical products

World news

  • The population of Ukraine decreased in 2017 by almost 43,000 people

  • Due to a decline in Lithuania’s population, its parliament is being reduced

  • By 2035 the number of newborn Muslims will exceed that of newborn Christians

  • Retirement age in Latvia will rise to 65 years by 2025

  • Earth’s oldest inhabitant dies in Italy at the age of 117

  • In 2015, over 29% of Lithuanians lived on the edge of poverty

  • China intends to build a city of 20 million people next to Beijing

  • Over 58 million Chinese citizens live alone

  • In Japan, same-sex couple allowed to adopt for first time ever

  • 66% of Latvian entrepreneurs estimate the availability of labor as bad or very bad

  • Lithuania intends to expand the range of persons entitled to dual citizenship

  • European Parliament votes to abolish visas for Ukraine

  • Italy will not leave the European Union

  • Has the entry of Kirgizia into the EEU saved Kirgiz migrants from slavery?

  • Migration policy in the center of pre-election fight in Germany

  • Trump calls Obama’s migration policy weak

  • The US is revising program for issuing work visas to foreigners

  • Australia tightens requirements for main work visa

  • Uzbekistan intends to attract foreign scientists

  • Czech Republic refuses to accept refugees

  • Refugees in Finland converting to Christianity in order to stay in the country

  • British citizens forbidden to visit most of the North Caucasus

  • Over this century, smoking will kill about a billion people

  • Up to 70% of infant deaths in Kirgizia are caused by anemia

  • In Armenia, the number of abortions associated with the sex of the fetus is decreasing

  • Britain chooses “wedding capital”

The newspapers write about…

  • “Kommersant” on the forms of marriage

  • “Russkaya Sluzhba BBC” and “Novaya Gazeta” on the attitude to “irresponsible women”

  • “Rossiyskaya Gazeta” on the life expectancy of Russians

  • “RBK” on optimizing the network of hospitals

  • “Rossiyskaya Gazeta” on transport medicine

  • “Izvestiya” on the shortage of vital medicines

  • “Rossiyskaya Gazeta” on the Russian experience of treating children with oncological diseases

  • “Izvestiya” on reducing the number of alcoholics

  • “Novye Izvestiya” on smoking in Russia and other countries

  • “Aftenposten” on the alcoholic preferences of Europeans

  • “Gazeta.ru” on why patriarchy slows down changes and harms health

  • “Kommersant” on the political mobilization of young people

  • “Kommersant” on key universities

  • “Ogonyok” on pensioners and people of retirement age

  • “RBK” on the Russian labor market

  • “Kommersant” on economic activity and labor reserves

  • “RBK” on informal employment in Russia

  • “Vedomosti” on the exclusion of the self-employed from OMS

  • “Gazeta.ru” on the working poor

  • “Delfi.It” on the consequences of depopulation in Lithuania

  • “Delfi.It” on emigration from Lithuania

  • “Die Welt” on the attitude towards refugees in Germany

  • “RBK” on the ineffectiveness of exams for migrants

  • “RBK” on the cultural adaptation of migrants

  • “American Thinker” on racial issues in the US

  • “Suddeutsche Zeitung” on where terrorists come from

  • “RBK” on the persecution of gays

  • “Novye Izvestiya” on internet and teenage suicides

  • „Fankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung“ on the gender crisis

  • “Kommersant Dengi” on new Moscow regions

Read books and magazines

  • Theoretical approaches to the study of the family

  • The international handbook of the demography of race and ethnicity

  • Republic of Moldova profile of health and well-being

  • Modern problems of transnationalism and migration research

  • Modern problems of transnationalism and migration research. Volume 2.

  • Through the pages of the journals “Mediko-sotsialnaya ekspertiza i reabilitatsiya” (“Medico-social expertise and rehabilitation”) and “Akusherstvo i ginekologiya” (“Obstetrics and Gynecology”)

  • Contents of the “Journal of Marriage and Family”

Demographic digest

  • Do employers value international study and internships? A comparative analysis of 31 countries

  • The Accuracy of Migration Distance Measures

  • BONUS: How long can one wait?

Profession: researcher

  • Demography at the XVIIIth April International Scientific Conference of HSE

  • Demographic and economic consequences of modern migration to European countries. Meeting of the Demographic Section of the Central House of Scientists of the Russian Academy of Sciences

  • Natalya Mikhailovna Rimashevskaya has died

 
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