European Russia, there is a stark contrast between south-west and north-east, both in terms of total mortality and of cause … whole country level by the prolongation of the southern part of European Russia through the continuation of the black soil … Russia. Thirdly, while it is difficult to infer any permanent geographical pattern of mortality from that very fluctuating …

, eateries, and small retail outlets in Moscow, Russia. We argue that workplace-based survey, while not flawless, provides a …

We offer a comparison between the age profiles of risks of formation of marital and non-marital unions in Russia … level and age pattern of union-entry risks, ranging (i) from the high and early risks in Russia to the slow and late entries … in Italy, and (ii) from an emphasis on marriage in Russia, Poland, Italy, and particularly Romania, to the dominant role …

index of inequality are 3.1, 2.7, and 2.6 (using the all-Russia educational distribution in the calculation for the LRC … have increased). In contrast to this, the development in Oslo and Helsinki has been more similar for the different …

in Bulgaria and Russia. The analysis is based on data from the Generation and Gender Surveys (GGS) carried out in 2004 … Bulgarian population than in the population of Russia. There is evidence that in some aspects Bulgaria is lagging behind other … suggests that Russia is lagging behind Bulgaria. However, certain specific features distinctive to Russia, such as the low …

The demographic transition in Russia was accelerated by several social cataclysms during the "Soviet type … contradict this ideology. There have been two waves of government policy interventions. In the 1930s and 1940s restrictive and …-traditional features of fertility and nuptiality remain. These distinguish Russia from most European countries and will persist in the near …

interpretable parameters of the fertility distribution. Although none of the observed crises in Russia succeeded in exerting a …