The 90-ies of the XX-th century are marked with a formation of an innovational model of social support system and service in reference to varied categories of population. For a short historic period they conducted a considerable work aimed at a creation of qualitatively new institutes of social protection. A conception of addressed social aid to indigent layers of population was introduced in legislative terms. Conceptual provisions of social protection of maternity, paternity and childhood were elaborated on a fundamentally new basis. The accumulated practical experience requires worked out measures on modernization of major streamlines concerned with state social policy. The actuality of the issues in question is determined with a big number of acute problems in social sphere and there arises an emergency in a creation of a functioning mechanism related to social protection of various categories of population. The author canvasses the functioning of social protection system in reference to population being in action in Dagestan in the 90-ies. Proceeding from interpretation of fundamental trends associated with social services and institutions for the first time, the author has made an endeavor to explore the mechanisms of social protection for the benefit of diverse categories of population in view of the newest history of the region.
social protection of population, social services, indigent citizens, invalids, veterans, large families with children, children-orphans
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