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Current topic: Anti-alcohol measures: are they working in Russia?

• Introduction

• Russia’s anti-alcohol policy path

• What world experience tells us

• Regulating the hours during which alcohol can be sold and alcohol consumption in Russia

• How raising the price of alcohol affects its consumption in Russia

• Links to related topics

• Topics of previous issues

World demographic barometer

Alcohol: consumption, consequences and the global strategy to reduce harmful use

• Reduce harmful alcohol consumption by 10% by 2025

• Total alcohol consumption in 2010 was 6.2 liters of pure alcohol per person aged 15 years and over

• In 2012, 5.9% of all deaths and 5.1% of the burden of disease were linked to alcohol

• The greatest number of deaths due to alcohol consumption are in Eastern European countries

• 39% of all countries have a policy for reducing harmful alcohol consumption

Through the eyes of the analysts

• The structure of alcohol consumption as a social group indicator in modern Russian cities

• The relationship between alcohol consumption practices and the social structure of modern Russia

• “New wave” drugs as a factor in changing the drug situation in Russia

Q&A

• Russian men don’t take paternity leave

• Is retirement not a reason to stop working?

• How AIDS is transmitted

• Migration in Crimea

In the vastness of Russia

• President calls increase in life expectancy a major achievement

• Russia will reach bottom of the demographic pit in 2018

• Will an improvement in Russia’s demographics require the efforts of all its citizens?

• Tatarstan parliament postpones consideration of its own initiative to make divorce more difficult

• In St. Petersburg, positive fertility dynamic continues

• Mortality in Moscow is reduced by 5% each year

• Kudrin sees no alternative to raising the retirement age in Russia

• Expected period of funded pension payout increases to 19.5 years

• 80% of inspected social facilities turn out to be inaccessible for the disabled

• Putin calls for supporting people with low incomes and disabilities

• Kudrin proposes supporting the poorest to overcome the crisis

• Maternity capital will be allowed to be spent on the rehabilitation of disabled children

• Ministry of Labor proposes to extend the maternity capital program for another five years

• Putin decides to extend maternity capital program for two years

• Do 28% of Crimean residents commute to work in other regions?

• In Russia, a proposal to grant a migration amnesty

• Experts divided over point system for migrants

• The labor of foreigners with work licenses has brought in 29 billion rubles

• The cost of a work license for foreign workers in Moscow will increase to 4,200 rubles

• Russia has received more than one million Ukrainian refugees since 2014

• About 2 thousand citizens of Syria have received temporary asylum in Russia

• Attitudes to migrants are best in Astrakhan, worst in Moscow

• The number of HIV-positive persons could reach a million by the end of the year

• Ministry of Health proposes not to tell women about free abortions

• State Duma may oblige men to pay for abortions

• 80% of child car seats in Russia don’t meet requirements

• The number of prisoners in Russia has fallen to a record 644 million

Eurasian panorama

• In the USSR 8.7 million people died from hunger between 1932 and 1934

• The population size of Ukraine came to 42,801,000 as of October 1

• Kirgizia’s six millionth citizen born in Osh

• By 2050 the population size of Kirgizia will have doubled

• Population size of Donetsk has almost returned to pre-war level

• Is Azerbaijan facing a demographic crisis?

• In Kirgizia, women live seven years longer than men

• Tajiks have begun marrying less

• Uzbek President orders that girls not be married off before the age of 20

• UNDP improving the welfare of the rural population in 9 districts of Tajikistan

• Real wages in Belarus have decreased by 3.2%

• Average pension in Belarus in October was 41% of the average wage

• Almost 11.5 thousand applications have been submitted for family capital

• In Moldova, a growing number of people with disabilities

• 6.6% of the adult population in Belarus have disabilities

• Poroshenko signs law to protect rights of migrant workers

• Ukrainians going abroad do not plan to return

• Kirgizia has become a labor donor since the year 2000

• Migrants from Kirgizia will be allowed to stay in Russia for one month without registering

• Over 600 thousand Ukrainians in Russia violate immigration laws

• In Tajikistan, doubts as to the accuracy of Russian statistics on migrants

• 1500 citizens of Tajikistan allowed entry to Russia

• In Belarus, over 15,000 people are registered as HIV-positive

• In 2015, 844 Tajiks were infected with HIV

• In Belarus, men have begun smoking less, women - more

• Prevalence of smoking in Ukraine has decreased by 18%

• In Kazakhstan, maternal mortality has decreased threefold

• In Belarus, domestic violence affects 3 out of 4 women

• Poroshenko signs law prohibiting discrimination against sexual minorities

World news

• In 20 years Bulgaria’s population may be less than 6.5 million people

• Head of Lithuania Parliament is concerned about the aging of the nation

• In France they want to raise the pension age

• 80% of deaths in Israel are of citizens over 65 years of age

• Men with higher education live eight years longer

• Finnish citizens overestimate by a factor of 3 the proportion of Muslims living in their country

• Could up to 41 million people in the Sahel become migrants or radicals?

• Salaries of men and women will be equal by 2133

• The Netherlands have started thinking about creating a “mini-Schengen”

• Finland asks Russia to ban border crossings on bicycle

• Lithuania allows children of emigrants to hold dual citizenship

• Net migration in the UK sets record of 336 thousand people

• Canada imposes new restrictions on the admission of migrants

• In 2015, about 1.5 million illegal migrants entered the territory of the European Union

• Over 850,000 refugees have arrived in Europe by sea since the beginning of the year

• UN reports a reduction in the flow of migrants to Europe

• Can Europe really no longer accept refugees?

• Turkey has agreed to help EU with migrants for 3 billion euros

• Children of immigrants in France and Belgium are experiencing alienation from society

• HIV has evolved from a fatal disease into a chronic one

• Mortality from HIV among adolescents has tripled in 15 years

• Cancer causes 1 out of 8 deaths worldwide

• British doctors report a threefold increase in mortality from the flu

• The prohibition of abortion in Northern Ireland is called a human rights violation

• Physicians have created the world’s first insulin pill

• Obama calls for a revision of the rules for obtaining firearms

The newspapers write about

• “Gazeta.ru” on mortality and life expectancy in Russia

• “Kommersant” on health care in Moscow

• “Novye vedomosti” on a “national sobriety rating”

• “Kommersant” on education and life expectancy

• “Meditsinskaya gazeta” on legal responsibility of patients for their own health

• “Meditsinskaya gazeta” on encouraging visits to the polyclinic

• “Rossiyskaya gazeta” on limiting free medicine

• “Nezavisimaya gazeta” on an independent expertise of the quality of medical aid

• “Telegraf” on the danger of antibiotic resistance

• “BBC Earth” on the history of HIV

• “Russkaya sluzhba BBC” on the problem of HIV in Russia

• “Novye Izvestiya” on tobacco cessation consulting rooms

• “Novosti Belarusi” on the shortage of nurses in Belarus

• “Izvestiya” on ageing in the world and in Russia

• “BBC Future” on the advantages of old age

• “Izvestiya” on paternity leave

• “Rossiyskaya gazeta” on Mizulina and divorce

• “Reuters” on the problems of Chinese population policy

• “Gazeta.ru” on monitoring migration in Russia

• “Kommersant-Dengi” on refugees and labor migrants

• “Kommersant” on the difference in salaries between migrants and non-migrants

• “Moskovskiy Komsomolets” on the danger of helping migrants

• “ASIA-Plus” on labor migration and development in Central Asia

• “Novye Izvestiya” on detentions and expulsions of Turks from Russia

• “Kommersant” on the expulsion of Turkish students from Russian universities

• “RBK” on tightening entry into the Schengen zone

• “Foreign Policy” on the migration channel from Russia to Norway

• “Le Monde” on Islam in France

• “Kommersant” and “Vedomosti” on the economically inactive population

• “Nezavisimaya gazeta” on a new method of calculating unemployment

• “Novye Izvestiya” on the size of unemployment benefits

• “Vedomosti” on high salaries in China

• “Vedomosti” on the housing market and housing provision

• “RBK” on the future of abundance

• “Zerkalo nedeli” on losses from the Holodomor

• “Slon.ru” on the increased proportion of young people living with their parents

• “Russkaya sluzhba BBC” on childfree

• “fronda.pl” on unisex names

Read books and magazines

• Reforming medicine. Ukraine in the global and European context

• Eurostat Regional Yearbook 2015

• The older generation as a resource for the socio-economic modernization of Russia

• Trends in maternal mortality: 1990 to 2015

• Migration-related aspects of public health: a review of evidence on the health status of undocumented migrants in the European Region

• Through the pages of the journals “Demographiya ta sotsialna ekonomika” (“Demography and social economics”) and “Mirovaya ekonomika i mezhdunarodnye otnosheniya” (“World Economy and International Relations”)

• Contents of the journal “Population”

Demographic digest

• European Fertility: Continuity and Reversals. Dutch Demography Day 2015, Utrecht. 25 November 2015

• Two Is Best? The Persistence of a Two-Child Family Ideal in Europe

• Re-theorizing Family Demographics

• Low Fertility, Socioeconomic Development, and Gender Equity

• Accuracy of the Chinese lunar calendar method to predict a baby’s sex: a population-based study: Chinese calendar sex prediction

Profession: researcher

• 70 years since the birth of Victor Mikhailovich Medkov