Valdai Club

James Sherr

Ori Sela

Kirill Semyonov

Igor Sid

Herman Mark Schwartz

Walid Salem

Harold Saunders

Prabhat Shukla

Andrés Serbin

Oksana Sinyavskaya

PhD, Deputy Director at the Institute for Social Policy, NRU HSE.

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Expert Opinions

The Coronavirus Pandemic: A Key to Solving Social Problems or a Catalyst for Them?

The coronavirus pandemic, while serving as a powerful shake-up, did not become the key to solving the accumulated social problems. High income inequality, often perceived as unfair, provokes an increase in social tension, which, in the absence of social cohesion, finds very crooked answers, writes Valdai Club expert Oksana Sinyavskaya.

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The Pandemic: Social Lessons

In early 2020, when the pandemic was still gaining momentum, it was very fashionable to repeat the popular notion that the world will never be the same again. In the Russian discourse of the future structure of social policy, it was often said that the pandemic would provide an opportunity for nullifying previous agreements and building a new, "better" world.

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From a Welfare State to a Welfare Society

After several decades of talk about the imminent collapse of welfare states and the triumph of the market economy, what we have seen in recent months could be called a renaissance of state paternalism.