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Current topic: Commuting in the Moscow region: new data

• The data for studying commuting: the traditional and the new

• The spatial structure of commuting

• Seasonal fluctuations of commuting

• Conclusion

• Links to related topics

• Topics of previous issues

European demographic barometer

Cities of the EU-28 and work in them

• According to the new definition, the EU-28 has 811 cities with a population of 50,000 and more

• In the EU-28, 42% of the population lives in cities, 31% in small towns and suburbs, and 27% in rural areas

• 59% of the EU-28 population lives in metropolitan regions, and 68% of GDP is produced there

• In all metropolitan areas of EU-28 capitals, apart from Berlin, GDP per capita exceeds the national level

• Getting to work in cities can take up to 45 minutes

• In some EU-28 cities the share of commuters among the employed exceeds 90%

Through the eyes of the analysts

• Opportunities for studying commuting using data of cellular operators (as exemplified by Ufa)

• Commuting on the labor market of St. Petersburg and the Leningrad region

• Migration in Moscow and the Moscow region: regional and structural features

Q&A

• National Health Monitoring of Russians

• Attitudes to labor migrants

• Is a father today more than a father?

• Purchasing medicines

In the vastness of Russia

• Fertility in Russia fell by 2.3% in 2016

• Infant mortality decreased by almost 20% over 3 months

• Soviet Federation criticizes Kudrin’s idea of reducing the number of pensioners

• Medvedev considers it necessary to maintain the maternity capital and increase the number of first-borns

• Batalina proposes to pay part of mortgage to parents having a first child before the age of 23

• Fewer Russians are being deprived of their parental rights

• The government will allow people with HIV to adopt children

• Certificates of birth and death will be issued through MFCs (Multifunctional centers)

• Ministry of Communications proposes to simplify the choice of marriage date

• In Moscow City Duma, a proposal to introduce tax on childlessness

• “Taxing parents with few children won’t make them have more”

• Child Ombudsman calls for starting to prepare children for family life in school

• A comfortable living environment to be created in small historical towns

• Rostrud approves idea of electronic work record books

• Transition to electronic work record books will be smooth

• Fight against unemployment damps economic growth due to a shortage of skilled workers

• State Duma to consider bill on depriving terrorists of Russian citizenship

• Bill on depriving of citizenship those convicted of terrorism will be corrected

• At the moment there are almost 9.7 million citizens of other states on the territory of Russia

• Putin supports the tightening of penalties for violation of migration registration rules

• Chaika calls for urgent solution to problem of deporting illegal migrants

• Illegals will be able to leave Russia voluntarily rather than be deported

• FSB head calls for “ideological support” for the integration of migrants

• Russia approves plan to implement strategy to combat HIV infection

• Ministry of Health reports reduction of alcohol consumption in Russia in 2016

• The number of deaths from alcohol poisoning is declining

• Supreme Court will reduce the rights of surrogate mothers in Russia

• Physicians working with elderly Muscovites will be payed extra

• Medvedev against replacing free medicine with paid

• Electronic sick leave system to start operating in Russia as of July 1

World news

• The population of Israel is about 868,000 people

• The population of Estonia is 1,315,635 people

• The population of Latvia has shrunk by nearly 0.5 million over 16 years

• “If Latvians don’t learn to live in cities, then will this people simply die out?”

• For first time ever the number of elderly Canadians surpasses that of children

• IMF will work with Ukraine only if the retirement age is raised

• Raising the retirement age of women in Israel is again in question

• 19 million people in Yemen need humanitarian assistance

• Turkey increases period of visa-free stay for Russians to 90 days

• EU Council approves decision on the liberalization of visa regime for Ukraine

• Germany, Austria, Denmark and Norway should remove border controls within six months

• Latvia discussing simplification of procedure for obtaining citizenship

• Australia tightens rules for granting citizenship

• New Zealand toughens requirements for highly qualified migrants

• Switzerland will limit the flow of migrants from Bulgaria and Romania

• Texas bans sanctuary cities for refugees

• Dodon counting on amnesty of migrants from Moldova

• Russia amnesties 102,000 Tajik migrants

• Uzbekistan intends to increase the number of consulates in Russia and Kazakhstan

• Latvia has highest HIV level in EU

• About 71 million people living with hepatitis C

• Level of child mortality in Czech Republic declining for eighth consecutive year

• Georgia begins vaccinating girls against papilloma virus

The newspapers write about…

• “Izvestiya” on the tax on having too few children

• “Utro” on taxing those with no children

• “Vechernyaya Moskva” on programs to support fertility

• “Kommersant” on the sufficiency and insufficiency of kindergartens

• “Forbes” on telemedicine

• “Rossiyskaya gazeta” on electronic sick leaves

• “Kommersant” on the aging of Asia’s population

• “EADaily” on the demographic situation in the countries of Transcaucasia

• “Forbes” on the threats of bioterrorism

• “Kommersant” and “Moskovskiy Komsomolets” on deprivation of citizenship for terrorism

• “Izvestiya” on a Russian Green Card

• “Izvestiya” on voluntary self-deportation

• “47news” on a migration center in Uzbekistan

• “Project Syndicate” on the benefits to the United States of immigration from the Middle East

• “Focus” on North African crime in Germany

• “Project Syndicate” on job cuts in US industry

• “VG” on invisible modernization in Iran

• “Wonderzine” on surrogate motherhood

• “The Village” on reproductive services

• “Radio Azattyk” on domestic violence in Kirgizia

• “RFI” on banning excessively thin models

• “Sueddeutsche Zeitung” on monogamy and free love

Read books and magazines

• Annual report of the network of ethnological monitoring and early prevention of conflicts in 2014. Volume 1

• Annual report of the network of ethnological monitoring and early prevention of conflicts in 2014. Volume 2

• The senses of rural life (the experience of sociological analysis)

• Older people in Germany and the EU 2016

• Portugal. Health Systems in Transition

• Through the pages of the journals “Sotsialnye aspekty zdorovya naseleniya” (“Social aspects of population health”) and “Voprosy ekonomiki” (“Issues of economics”)

• Contents of the “European Journal of Population”

Demographic digest

• Happiness, stress, and age: how the U curve varies across people and places

• Younger Adults and Homeownership in Europe Through the Global Financial Crisis

• BONUS: Once the most populous piece of the planet

Profession: researcher

• Happy 60^th birthday to Vladimir Mikhailovich Shkolnikov

Travels in internet

• Demoscope presents the site of the project “The virtual population of Russia” (an interactive atlas)