Vasiliy A. Anikin

Poverty in Russia is particularly difficult to overcome since it is very heterogeneous. The Russian poor include groups as diverse as villagers who do not seem to fit into the post-industrial environment, low-skilled workers, university professors, and parents of young children. Each category of the poor requires a separate approach and a different type of state support, according to HSE Professor Nataliya Tikhonova and Associate Professor at the Faculty of Economics, Vasiliy Anikin

January 26, 2019. Vasiliy Anikin and Julia Lezhnina, the senior research fellows from the Centre for Stratification Studies, participated in the plenary session. There presentations were about social structure of and perceived role of state in post-transition Russia.

On Wednesday, February 6, 2019 at 4 p.m. a collective book “Income Stratification Model of Russian Society: Dynamics, Factors, Cross-country comparisons”  was presented.

The academic online journal ‘Vestnik Sociologii’ (“The Bulletin of Sociology”) has published an article by Vasily Anikin “Employment in the post-crisis Russia: the role of settlement inequalities”.

At the session chaired by Natalia Tikhonova, chief research fellow of the Center for Stratification Studies, and Vasiliy Anikin, senior research fellow of this Center, Svetlana Mareeva, center director, presented her report "Middle-income group in Russia society: position and dynamics", and Ekaterina Slobodenyuk, research fellow of this Center, presented her report "Where does the poverty line lie in modern Russia?"

At the session chaired by Natalia Tikhonova, chief research fellow of the Center for Stratification Studies, and Svetlana Mareeva, center director, Vasiliy Anikin, senior research fellow of this Center, presented his report "Social stratification by life chances: theoretical and methodological potential."

The research paper competition was held in 21 subjects, including Arts and Design, an area that was just introduced this year. For the first time ever, international students are among the competition’s winners.

of all working poor Russians are either low-skilled or medium-skilled workers in blue-collar jobs.