SOCIAL POLICY OF THE RUSSIAN STATE: CURRENT STATUS AND DEVELOPMENT TRENDS
The article examines certain areas of the social policy of the Russian state, which is a mechanism for realizing the main tasks of a social state designed to effectively and timely ensure the social rights of citizens, creating institutional guarantees and forming legal mechanisms that are required to fulfill the social obligations of the state. Improving the quality of life of the population, strengthening the health of Russian citizens, ensuring a stable demographic development of Russia are named in the National Security Strategy of the Russian Federation as one of the national interests of our country for the long term. The listed tasks are put on a par with such large-scale interests as strengthening the defense capability of the state, ensuring the inviolability of the constitutional system, state sovereignty, territorial integrity, etc., which confirms the relevance and significance of the research topic. Awareness of the importance of social security of the individual with modern scientists, systematic adjustment of the legislation in the sphere of social security (and at the same time the preservation of its conflict nature) creates a favorable ground for scientific discussions on the main directions of social state policy, on the regulation and content of social rights and freedoms of man and citizen as forms of constitutional consolidation of social obligations of the Russian state. The article considers various forms of social security applied to certain socially vulnerable layers of the population (disabled, elderly, children, etc.). A special emphasis is placed on reforming the legislation in the field of social security, both in terms of adjusting existing and actively tested in practice social protection, and introducing fundamentally new institutions (for example, maternity capital).