Place of charity in Russia’s social security
- Authors: Semyannikova D.A.1
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Affiliations:
- North-Western Institute of Management – Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration
- Issue: No 7 (2025)
- Pages: 85-92
- Section: Labor law and social security law
- URL: https://journal-vniispk.ru/1026-9452/article/view/306385
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.31857/S1026945225070095
- ID: 306385
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Abstract
The article considers the way from private charity to the legal regulation of state social security in Russia. In the process of functioning and development of society, the axiological foundations of charity acted as value reference points that marked the vector of development of social security legislation. In the course of history, the choice of these guidelines was based not only on the interests of individual categories of citizens, but also on the interests of communities and then the state as a whole, which led to the formation of the idea of the importance of social security and the state’s assumption of the role of a responsible subject of social security law. Despite the advantages of charitable activity as a social phenomenon, today it carries a certain number of risks for the system of state social security in Russia. The chosen approach to the study allowed us to come to the conclusion about the ambiguity of the role of charity in the state social welfare of Russia. Charity of citizens is historically dictated by such human values as mercy, compassion for the neighbor, which revealed the acute need for the state’s participation in the maintenance of citizens in need of social support. Nevertheless, today the development of the idea of the special role of charity in the social security of citizens has become a cause of discussion in the field of social security law due to a steady tendency for some scholars to recognize it as a part of “non-state social security”. This fact may subsequently lead to social incapacity of the state. Interference of charity in the social security system will have its negative consequences, which is why monitoring of charity trends in the social security system is so important.
About the authors
D. A. Semyannikova
North-Western Institute of Management – Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration
Author for correspondence.
Email: semyannikova-da@ranepa.ru
57/43 Sredniy Ave. V.O., 199178 St. Petersburg, Russia
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