Social policy under the conditions of the socio-economic and ideological desovereignization

The article analyses the constraints on the state implementation of different aspects of social policy imposed by the desovereignization of the socio-economic sphere connected with the processes of globalization including participation in the World Trade Organization. In Russia this situation is additionally aggravated by the critical dependence of the budget revenues on the international economic situation having a significant geopolitical component. The author shows that the scale of the budget allocations directed to the social and military spheres, characterizes the budget policy as ‘neither guns nor butter’ that does not meet the challenges facing Russia. It is proved that the postulate of ‘scarcity’ of the budgetary funds, put forward as the justification of budget restrictions and reduction of citizens’ social rights, has no good grounds, since in Russia they still do not use a whole spectrum of well-known instruments to fill the treasury and curtail the outflow of material resources abroad.