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The paper presents the results of a survey St. Petersburg residents about trust in e-government technologies. The study was based on the ideas of actor-network theory and the approach of social construction of technology (SCOT). 600 respondents took part in the survey (sampling error does not exceed 4%, with a 95% confidence level). The study proposes an approach to cyber-social trust in the field of e-government technologies: online services provision, citizensВ’ e-participation in the management of the city, soc...

This article analyzes pension reforms conducted since the 2000s in Russia and in the so-called "Beveridge countries" (England, Sweden, the Netherlands and Switzerland), as well as in Germany. The main ways of pension provision modernization were set in the new Russian pension scheme development strategy of 2012. Russia is aiming for international standards in this area, however it does not take into account the consequences of some of its steps. As before its goal is to decrease the level of poverty and social ine...