Overcoming poverty and consequences of inequality is required because poverty and inequality play a far more destructive role for modern economy than before. Eradicating poverty is one of the aims of our planet's sustainable development declared by the UN in 2015. In this study, the subject of eradicating poverty in all its forms and dimensions has been researched as a path of the government policy of various countries. Statistics and government support measures as well as social security for underprivileged sectors of the public have been reviewed; an analysis of the government measures aimed at rooting out squalor in Russia, Canada and Kazakhstan has been made.

The article is devoted to the problem of assessing the effectiveness of the online distance learning format, based on the results of work during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. The purpose of the article is to identify specific problems faced by students of various education profiles: natural science and humanitarian. The objectives of the article are to analyze the scientific literature on the research topic, as well as present the results of the empirical research conducted by the authors among two groups of respondents. The methodology of the article is based on a systematic approach and includes a group of general scientific methods (analysis, synthesis, deduction, induction), as well as special methods: content analysis of scientific literature on the research topic, the method of sociological research (questionnaire survey), as well as the method of statistical analysis. Based on the results of the study, the authors came to the following conclusions: the online format of distance learning is not compatible with a number of natural science disciplines, which leads to a sharp decrease in the quality of education, especially in the field of applied sciences.

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The research covers semantic and pragma-stylistic features of onomastic units in German-language mass media, as well as the peculiarities of their functioning and impact on the reader, their prospects in the process of teaching a foreign language (in the terms of stylistic analysis of media texts).

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