Topical issues of pension provision for military personnel in modern Russia

The actual problems of pension provision for military personnel in the Russian Federation are touched in the article. Pension provision for military personnel is viewed as a complex and multifaceted phenomenon that affects various spheres of the functioning of society and the state. It is revealed, firstly, as a component of the system of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, secondly, as an element of the pension system of the Russian state, thirdly, as a manifestation of the budgetary system and budgetary policy of the Russian state, and fourthly, as a set of legal norms of the domestic systems of law governing social security. In the paper the author used a general scientific systemic-structural (structural-functional) method, which allows to reveal in more detail the institution of pension provision for servicemen as a complex integrity, and a sociological method, within which the actual factors that influence or may affect the appointment of pension payments to servicemen are identified. The author performs a number of tasks: substantiation of pension provision for military personnel as a comprehensive education in various spheres of public life, disclosure of the institution of pension provision for military personnel in the context of the domestic system of the Armed Forces, in the context of the pension system as a whole, in the context of state-budget matter, in the context of legislation on social security, identification of the problem of linking the institution pension provision for military personnel to the institution of state pension provision and a proposal for a way to resolve it, designation of the problem of receiving a «second» pension by military personnel through the civilian pension insurance system and proposal of ways to improve this system. Achieving the indicated tasks, the author realizes the main goal - to identify the urgent problems of pension provision for military personnel in modern Russian realities and to suggest ways to resolve them, or at least to minimize them.

servicemen, military pension, state pension provision, compulsory pension insurance, Armed Forces, Pension Fund, length of service, pay allowance