... characteristic median age of 29 years. Uzbekistan can also be cited among the exceptions with the lowest birth rate in the region, and respectively a lower natural population increaserate (a lower natality rate in Kyrgyzstan is mainly due to higher emigration). There is, however, a serious regional imbalance in Kazakhstan – a demographic explosion is being observed in some areas in the South with the most Islamized and least Russified population living there.
The above mentioned trends are ...
The Russian migration reforms of 2009-2010 as a response to challenges of the global economic crisis
The global economic crisis which ravaged the world in the second half of 2008 affected all the regions of the world to various extents, and provoked new debates ...
... consensus among the people who live within the boundaries of the country. Recent speeches by A. Merkel, D. Cameron, D. Medvedev and V. Putin about the policy of multiculturalism have once again proven that different countries are facing issues related migration. There is no doubt that these problems are of great relevance to our country, since public opinion towards migrants arriving in Russia is closely related to attitudes towards the old diasporic groups (Armenians, Georgians, and Azerbaijanis who ...
On June 11-12, RIAC Director General Andrey Kortunov and FMS First Deputy Ekaterina Yegorova took part in the 10th Plenary Meeting of the Transatlantic Council on Migration as part of the two organizations’ cooperation effort.
Held in New York City, the event was devoted to preparation of the UN High-Level Dialogue on International Migration and Development to be held at the UN Headquarters next October....
On June 12, the United Nations Headquarters in New York City hosted an international conference on international migrations and development organized by Center for Migration Studies of New York, Washington Migration Policy Institute and Government Offices of Sweden.
The participants discussed impact of various migration types on socio-economic development of donor ...
Migration processes in the 2000s
By the 2000s, which this reader on migration processes in post-Soviet Russia focus upon, the complex initial phase of transformations brought about by the collapse of the Soviet Union and accompanied by dire economic ...
RIAC Program Director Ivan Timofeyev attended a meeting of the Federal Migration Service Academic Board chaired by Director First Deputy Ekaterina Yegorova to present its reader “Migration in Russia: 2000-2012” and handbook “”Migration Field of Russia”.
Dr. Timofeyev also narrated about the key messages of the ...
... repatriates in Russia.
Refugees and Forced Migrants
Following the disintegration of the USSR, as the system of government unraveled and given the significant regulatory lacunae, Russia for the first time in its history faced the challenge of mass immigration. While remaining at mid-1980s levels of around 800,000 people annually, the influx of people thronging into Russia across the borders of newly independent states differed radically from the immigration into Russia when it was part of the Soviet ...
A joint press-conference of the RIAC and the Federal Migration Service of Russia titled “International migration processes: tendencies, challenges, perspectives” during which the parties signed a cooperation agreement took place on May 17, 2013.
Konstantin Romodanovsky
, head of the FMS, pointed ...
Migration and Demography
Migration and Demography
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Migration is a socio-demographic process that has been socially, economically, politically and culturally critical throughout the history of mankind. Migration has invariably remained one of the three ...
