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The question raised in the title of this article worries the overwhelming majority of our country’s citizens. In analyzing the essential elements of a social state, on the one hand, and Russia’s realities, on the other, the author comes to discomforting conclusions.
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Original Russian Text © E.P. Tavokin, 2013, published in Vestnik Rossiiskoi Akademii Nauk, 2013, Vol. 83, No. 4, pp. 313–319.
Evgenii Petrovich Tavokin, Dr. Sci. (Econ.), is a professor of the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration.
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Tavokin, E.P. Is the Russian federation a social state?. Her. Russ. Acad. Sci. 83, 167–172 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1019331613020081
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