Center for Security Studies

Russia’s Pension System: Back to the Future

Russia’s Pension System: Back to the Future

Author(s): Peter Rutland
Editor(s): Aglaya Snetkov Stephen Aris
Series: Russian Analytical Digest (RAD)
Issue: 121
Pages: 8-10
Publisher(s): Center for Security Studies (CSS), ETH Zurich; Research Centre for East European Studies, University of Bremen; Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies, George Washington University
Publication Year: 2012

Russia’s 2002 pension reform is not working and the system requires ever larger bailouts from the state budget. So far attempts to fix the problem are flagging because Russia’s leaders are reluctant to adopt unpopular decisions.

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