POVERTY AS A SOCIAL PROBLEM OF RUSSIAN SOCIETY
The paper is devoted to poverty as one of the most urgent problems of modern society. The need for social stability in society forces the state to take active measures to overcome and eradicate poverty. The paper aims to examine the causes of poverty and identify its peculiar features in Russia. The authors discuss the impact of objective, subjective as well as socio-cultural factors contributing to the increase in the number of poor and low-income citizens. Ways to reduce poverty are suggested. Prospects for improving the welfare of the population are considered. The methodology of the research includes a dialectical approach to the study of the phenomenon and various aspects and patterns of poverty, as well as fundamental principles of scientific research, the principle of objectivity and historicism. The authors used problem-chronological, retrospective, comparative and systematic methods of scientific research.