The importance of cultural factors in the death registration system: the case of Turkey • Banu Akadlı Ergöçmen, Hacettepe University Institute of Population Studies ; Ilknur Yuksel, Hacettepe University

Influence of changing population composition on mortality dynamics in Central and Eastern Europe • Evgueni Andreev, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research ; Tatyana Kharkova, Institute of Demography, State University Higher School of Economics ; Domantas Jasilionis, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research ; Vladimir Shkolnikov, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research

Mortality-migration interplay in Russia • Boris P. Denisov, Moscow State University ; Vassily Vlassov

An attempt to reestimate recent mortality trends in two Caucasian countries • Géraldine Duthé, Institut National d'Études Démographiques (INED) ; Irina Badurashvili, Georgian Centre of Population Research ; Karine Kuyumjyan, National Statistical Service of the Republic of Armenia ; France Meslé, Institut National d'Études Démographiques (INED) ; Jacques Vallin, Institut National d'Études Démographiques (INED)

How to correct overestimation of Moldovan life expectancy in the 1960s and 1970s ? • Olga Penina, Academy of Sciences of Moldova ; France Meslé, Institut National d'Études Démographiques (INED) ; Jacques Vallin, Institut National d'Études Démographiques (INED)