Смертность в России

 
Обзор не претендует на полноту (невозможность освоить полный объём даже отечественных масмидий очевидна) и составлен по материалам почтовой рассылки Дэвида Джонсона (то-есть, относительно небольшой, но достаточно представительной части).

Еженедельник Россия Центра оборонной информации (ЦОИ) (The CDI Russia Weekly) на самом деле выходящий в свет несколько, минимум один раз, в день является почтовой рассылкой новостей и аналитических материалов по самым разным сторонам жизни современной России, главным образом политическим (включая внешнюю политику), экономическим, социальным, военным и др..  Проект финансируется корпорацией Карнеги (The Carnegie Corporation of New York) и фондом Макартура (The MacArthur Foundation), сайт этого "еженедельника" размещён в Вашингтоне на серверах Центра оборонной информации (см.), бесприбыльной исследовательской и образовательной организации. Чтобы подписаться на еженедельник обращайтесь непосредственно к г-ну Д. Джонсону (подписаться).

Жанры присылаемых текстов достаточно разнообразны, это статьи, доклады аналитиков, рецензии отклики на научные и иные публикации, письма в редакции, в том числе и самому г-ну Джонсону.  Объём перерабатываемой (и рассылаемой) ЦОИ информации без преувеличения огромен, мной были отобраны те, документы, которые имеют вхождения "mortality" и/или "life expectancy". Для удобства они разбиты на разделы по критерию, на котором я не буду останавливаться ;), внутри разделов по возможности материал расположен в хронологическом порядке.
 

Большую часть массива составляют статьи:

• Andrew Meier, The Death of a Nation. Drug abuse, HIV and tuberculosis, combined with the old scourge of alcoholism, are lowering Russia's population, TIME EUROPE, January 22, 2000
• John O'Mahony, A people skating on thin ice. Once it was a thriving fishing port, now it's a ghost town where only the old, the young and the sick are left, The Guardian (UK), 3 February 2001
• Sarah Karush, Russia Looks To Halt Population Drop, AP, February 15, 2001
• Robert G. Kaiser, Don't Let This Russia Spook You, Washington Post, February 25, 2001
• Geoffrey York, Russia measures Yeltsin, Gorbachev. At 70, one fades while other is feted, The Globe and Mail (Canada), 3 March 2001
• BBC Monitoring, Russian health experts present latest "shocking figures" - newspaper Source: Obshchaya Gazeta, Moscow, in Russian 1 Mar 01
• Vodka drinking linked to Russian life expectancy, Reuters, March 23
• Leon Aron, A Space Station's Long Goodbye, New York Times, March 24, 2001 (см. также ответ г-на Медведева)
• Alexander N. Domrin, "Something Wicked Comes This Way": Sad Story of U.S. Aid to Russian "Reformers", Nezavisimaya Gazeta, March 22, 2001
• Robyn Dixon, The Vat, the Bucket and Some Glasses--a Still Life of Rural Russia Alcohol: Despite repeated crackdowns, samogon is the common currency in hardscrabble villages, Los Angeles Times, April 8, 2001
• Patrick Cockburn, The arts: Mother Russia's ruin. It didn't have a hope of success, but the Soviets' propaganda war against vodka drinking did produce some of the finest art of the Communist era, The Independent (UK) 28 April 2001
• Natalia Rimashevskaya, THERE WILL BE ONLY 55 MILLION OF US, Vek No. 17 2001
• Matt Bivens, Harvard's 'Fitting Choice', The Nation, June 24, 2001
• Dina Danilova, HEALTH MINISTER DENIES DEMOGRAPHIC CATASTROPHE IN RUSSIA, RIA Novosti, Boris Kagarlitsky, Ship of State Headed for Rough Waters, Moscow Times, June 22, 2001
• Ben Wattenberg, Transcript for: Whither Russia? PBS, June 16, 2001
• Christian Caryl, Eve Conant, Heading For An Early Grave. Alcoholism is just one of many problems, Newsweek International, July 9, 2001
• Peter Baker, Vodka's Place in the Russian Soul. New Museum to Examine Libation's Role in the Country's 'National Tradition', Washington Post July 2, 2001
• Tatiana Koshkareva, Rustam Narzikulov, POLITICAL SWAMP. Why Russia's quiet political landscape is out of touch with reality, Nezavisimaya Gazeta, July 13, 2001
• Peter Baker, HIV Cases in Russia Rise Sharply. Public Shows Little Concern Despite International Alarm, Washington Post, July, 29, 2001
• Russia to Use First Post-Soviet Census, AP, 1 August 2001
• Deborah Seward, Russians nurture dreams, endure disappointments since 1991 Soviet collapse, National Post (Canada), August 11, 2001
• Otto Latsis, Bureaucrats endanger Russia, The Russia Journal, August 17-23, 2001
• Andrew Jack, Russians' mixed feelings about the end of the Soviet Union, Financial Times (UK), 18 August 2001
• Margarita Vodyanova, Konstantin Danov, Russian Standard of Living Improved Over Last Decade, Obshchaya Gazeta, 16 August 2001
• Sharon LaFraniere, Hard Living Is Making for Unhealthy Russia. Male Life Expectancy Rate Declines, Washington Post, August 25, 2001
• Robert Cottrell, Islands of contention. Russia's eastern border has become a test of her relations with China, Financial Times (UK), 27 August 2001
• Sebastian Pritskov, THE IMPENDING CATASTROPHE, Slovo, December 7-13, 2001
• Stephen Cohen, USSR Breakup: Historian Explains Phenomenon Of 'Soviet Nostalgia', RFE/RL, 14 December 2001
• John Daniszewski, Disregard for Health Is Killing Russians, Los Angeles Times, December 16, 2001
• Geoffrey York, Past for Russians holds no future. A decade after the Soviet Union's collapse, a new mood of realism has replaced regret, The Globe and Mail (Canada), December 24, 2001
• Michael Stedman, Cleaner Russia Wins New Priority in Brussels. Green concerns drive joint push to beat pollution, strana.ru, January 8, 2002
• Patrick Nigg, Minsk: Soviet Reality Today. Daily Life in the Belarusian capital, Neue Zurcher Zeitung, January 5, 2002
• Michael Binyon, Putin promises to put Russia's house in order,The Times (UK), JANUARY 11 2002 

Аналитика, в том числе статьи, но отделены по характеру изданий:

• Murray Feshbach, Russia's Population Meltdown. Declining birth rates and soaring rates of disease now threaten Russia's very survival as a nation, The Wilson Quarterly, Thu, 11 Jan 2001
• Jodi Koehn, Kennan Institute meeting report: Russia's Demographic Crisis, 5 February 2001
• CIA, Russia's Physical and Social Infrastructure: Implications for Future Development, December 2000 
• Anders Aslund, THINK AGAIN, Foreign Policy, July/August 2001
• Valery Tishkov, AGAINST THE RHETORIC OF COMPLAINTS: THE ANTHROPOLOGY OF RUSSIAN TRANSFORMATIONS, Carnegie Endowment Conference on Russia-Ten Years After, June 8, 2001
• Jane's Information Group Limited,  Russia's population implosion, Foreign Report, 09/06/2001
• RAND, Dire Demographics: Population Trends in the Russian Federation, (письмо г-на Грэмиша от 27 сентября), тут 2 почти одинаковые ссылки
• David Satter, Richard Pipes, Keith Payne, RUSSIA: Its Place in the 21st Century and the Implications for the United States

Рецензии:

• Dusko Doder, Russia's Potemkin Leader, The Nation, January 29, 2001
• Michael Church, Unearthing the Russian way of death, The Independent (UK), January  15, 2001
• Alex Danchev, The deadly hubris of US in Russia, Times Higher Education Supplement (UK), 25 May 2001
• Danuta Wasserman, Airi Vdmik, Changes in life expectancy in Russia, The Lancet (UK), June 23, 2001
• 2 political scientists size up a Russia in turmoil Freedoms improved, but social, economic woes persist, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, June 28, 2001
• Robert G. Kaiser, Blood Red, Washington Post Book World, July 8, 2001
• Arnold Beichman, Russia's addiction problems, Washington Times, December 14, 2001 (see RAND also)
• amazon.com, Soviets: Pictures from the End of the U.S.S.R.

Письма представляют собой очень интересный материал:

• Cameron Smith, Re: 5003-NYT/Health Care Emergency, Wed, 3 Jan 2001
• Prof. M. Ellman, The Russian economy under El'tsin, Tue, 16 Jan 2001
• Sergei Medvedev, RE: 5167-Aron/Mir, Mon, 26 Mar 2001 (ответ на статью Арона)
• Dmitry Mikheyev, Cohen's chronic pessimism, Mon, 2 Jul 2001
• Brigitte Granville, New book "Russia's Post-Communist Economy", Tue, 28 Aug 2001

Специально выделен единственный призыв к действию:

• International Solidarity with Workers in Russia, NO RETURN TO THE 19th CENTURY! 

Таким образом, из 53 единиц = 31 приходится на статьи, интервью и информационные сообщения, по 8 на аналитические материалы и рецензии, 5 писем и один призыв.

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