UNCLASSIFIED the unified state system for preventing and handling emergency situations, its geographical and operational subsystems, and cooperation with equivalent foreign systems; by increasing the effectiveness with which local self-government bodies exercise their powers in the area of ensuring the population's health and safety; by updating technical equipment and manufacturing technologies at potentially dangerous facilities and public infrastructure facilities; by developing the system for monitoring and predicting emergency situations; by introducing modern technologies for informing and alerting the public, by maintaining the up-to-date equipping and training of fire and rescue services at the required level; and by developing the system for taking preventative measures to reduce the risk of emergency situations and fires through improving oversight measures, taking preventative action, and also creating a culture of safety among the public. Improving the Quality of Life of Russian Citizens 50. The strategic objectives of ensuring national security in the sphere of improving the quality of life of Russian citizens are the development of human potential, the satisfaction of citizens' material, social, and spiritual needs, and the reduction of the level of social and property inequality in the population first and foremost through increasing their income. 51. The threats to the quality of life of Russian citizens are unfavorable dynamics in the development of the economy, laggardness in technological development, the imposition of restrictive economic measures against the Russian Federation, the improper expenditure of budget appropriations, the intensification of differentiation within the population in terms of income levels, and the reduction in the quality of consumer goods and services offered to the population. 52. The improvement of the citizens' quality of life is guaranteed through ensuring food security, greater affordability of comfortable housing, high-quality and safe goods and services, modern education and health care, sports facilities, the creation of highly efficient jobs, and also the creation of favorable conditions for improving social mobility and the quality of labor, decent pay, support for socially significant employment, accessibility of social, engineering, and transportation infrastructure facilities for people with disabilities and other population groups with low mobility, and decent pension provision. 53. In order to counter threats to the citizens' quality of life, organs of state power and local selfgovernment organs in collaboration with the institutions of the civil society: -- improve the protection of human rights and freedoms through the development of legislation and the judicial and law enforcement systems; -- promote the growth of citizens' well-being, the reduction of differentiation within the population in terms of income levels, and the reduction of poverty, by means of, inter alia, developing the pension system and social support for individual categories of citizens and improving the social services system; UNCLASSIFIED