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Inequality in Russia
This chapter describes the issues of monetary inequality in modern Russia, its dynamics in recent years and the current structure of Russian society in terms of income. When measured by traditional indicators, income inequality among the whole population is noticeably higher in Russia than in Western Europe. The calculation of an integral index made it possible to construct a general model for the stratification of the mass strata of Russian society that demonstrates the configuration of non-monetary inequality in Russian society today. Public perceptions of inequality in Russia today are based mostly not on the specifics of individual situations, but on shared subjective norms and beliefs about inequality and their contrast with existing reality. In Russian sociological discourse, questions are raised about how the social structure of modern society can be characterised, in particular whether it is a class structure and, if so, what are the main classes and their specifics and what prospects might they have in the future.
