NO OTHER COUNTRY IN THE WORLD HAS THIS... In Russia, 1% of the super-rich hold up to 56% of all money.
Almost no one of those is either an ethnically Russian or a Christian.
According to scientists, in Russia 1% of the super-rich hold 43% to 56% of the country's money. No other country in the world has such an indicator. Despite the high level of concentration of wealth in the hands of a small group of people, inequality in Russia is slightly weaker among the masses than in the United States, China, and Brazil.
But this inequality and concentration of wealth is a constant source of social tension. Russians are not happy with the way the state is dealing with this problem, since it is not the smartest and most prominent people who become super-rich, but those who have gained control over the extraction of natural resources.
While Putin talks about the end of capitalism and poverty as Russia's main problem, the really irritating factor for Russians is growing inequality. With socio-economic inequality, all the country's wealth is concentrated in the hands of a small group of people.
According to the French scholar Philippe Novokmet's calculation, the 1 percent of the super-rich in Russia hold 43 percent to 56 percent of all money in Russia. This is an unprecedented situation that is not found anywhere else in the world, RBC writes with reference to the results of the conference on social problems "Social and economic inequality and poverty in the modern world" held by the Higher School of Economics.
According to the TWIR index, which assesses how much the annual salaries of ordinary people constitute the fortune of the super-rich 1%, in Russia it takes 99% of citizens 110 years to earn the already available super-rich in the hands of billionaires.
Researchers at the Higher School of Economics found that Russians are irritated by the fact that the source of the Russian elite's wealth is the extraction of natural resources, not the achievements in the intellectual and high-tech fields. Super-rich Russians have "bad" perceptions of wealth, says Svetlana Mareeva, head of the stratification research center at the Institute of Social Policy at the National Research University Higher School of Economics.
Russia also lacks the main feature of a just society - equal access to health care. Despite the fact that Russians use their salaries to support the health care system, the availability of medical services varies depending on the region and the income of citizens, says Sergei Shishkin, director of the Center for Health Policy at the Higher School of Economics. "The differentiation between the middle class, well-off people and the rest of the population is growing," Shishkin noted. He added that in the future, access to medicine will improve for those who are rich and educated. The situation is exactly the same with education - inequality of opportunity is only growing.
Almost no one of those is either an ethnically Russian or a Christian.
According to scientists, in Russia 1% of the super-rich hold 43% to 56% of the country's money. No other country in the world has such an indicator. Despite the high level of concentration of wealth in the hands of a small group of people, inequality in Russia is slightly weaker among the masses than in the United States, China, and Brazil.
But this inequality and concentration of wealth is a constant source of social tension. Russians are not happy with the way the state is dealing with this problem, since it is not the smartest and most prominent people who become super-rich, but those who have gained control over the extraction of natural resources.
While Putin talks about the end of capitalism and poverty as Russia's main problem, the really irritating factor for Russians is growing inequality. With socio-economic inequality, all the country's wealth is concentrated in the hands of a small group of people.
According to the French scholar Philippe Novokmet's calculation, the 1 percent of the super-rich in Russia hold 43 percent to 56 percent of all money in Russia. This is an unprecedented situation that is not found anywhere else in the world, RBC writes with reference to the results of the conference on social problems "Social and economic inequality and poverty in the modern world" held by the Higher School of Economics.
According to the TWIR index, which assesses how much the annual salaries of ordinary people constitute the fortune of the super-rich 1%, in Russia it takes 99% of citizens 110 years to earn the already available super-rich in the hands of billionaires.
Researchers at the Higher School of Economics found that Russians are irritated by the fact that the source of the Russian elite's wealth is the extraction of natural resources, not the achievements in the intellectual and high-tech fields. Super-rich Russians have "bad" perceptions of wealth, says Svetlana Mareeva, head of the stratification research center at the Institute of Social Policy at the National Research University Higher School of Economics.
Russia also lacks the main feature of a just society - equal access to health care. Despite the fact that Russians use their salaries to support the health care system, the availability of medical services varies depending on the region and the income of citizens, says Sergei Shishkin, director of the Center for Health Policy at the Higher School of Economics. "The differentiation between the middle class, well-off people and the rest of the population is growing," Shishkin noted. He added that in the future, access to medicine will improve for those who are rich and educated. The situation is exactly the same with education - inequality of opportunity is only growing.
