The number of poor Russian citizens with incomes below the subsistence minimum in 2018 decreased by 400 thousand people and is 12, 9% of the population, said Deputy Prime Minister Tatyana Golikova in the interview to the newspaper " Izvestia ". in January it was announced that for the first nine months of 2018, the poverty level amounted to 13, 3%. As explained Golikova, reducing poverty, 2 times national goal number one. A solution to the issue of poverty, its vision lies, on the one hand, in the plane of increase of different types and forms of social support, on the other hand, in economic growth. Vice Prime Minister noted that the maximum level of poverty in the Republic of Tyva - 40, 5%. In this region a very low level of employment, with good fertility, for this reason, poverty is spreading and among them a large family. The most prosperous, at the present time are the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous district and Belgorodskaya oblast'. in may 2018, Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered the government to reduce in 2 times the poverty level in the country until 2024. About it reported in the content of the document " On the national goals and strategic tasks of development of the Russian Federation ", better known As the " may decrees ". <span style="color:darkgray