Social inequality in realities of contemporary Russia

The article is concerned with features of the social inequality in contemporary Russia. The author considers principle indicators and factors of the social inequality and emphasizes destabilizing role of unjust inequalities. Among system preconditions of the unjust inequalities the author names: privatization of the state by bureaucratic oligarchy, faults in social and economic state policy, underdevelopment of the civil society structures, treatment authorities with distrust, and de-politicization of the society.