  The goal of the paper is to develop a systematic approach to the study of
(perhaps degenerate) singularities of integrable systems and their structural
stability. As the main tool, we use "hidden" system-preserving torus actions
near singular orbits. We give sufficient conditions for the existence of such
actions and show that they are persistent under integrable perturbations. We
find toric symmetries for several infinite series of singularities and prove,
as an application, structural stability of Kalashnikov's parabolic orbits with
resonances in the real-analytic case. We also classify all Hamiltonian
$k$-torus actions near a singular orbit on a symplectic manifold $M^{2n}$ (or
on its complexification) and prove that the normal forms of these actions are
persistent under small perturbations. As a by-product, we prove an equivariant
version of the Vey theorem (1978) about local symplectic normal form of
nondegenerate singularities.
