Evgeniy Moiseevich Buchvald 

Doctor of Economic Sciences, Professor, Chief Scientific Researcher, Head of the Centre of Federal Relations and Regional Development, Institute of Economics of the Russian Academy of Sciences 

buchvald@mail.ru 

Prosp. Nakhimovskiy, 32, 117218 Moscow, Russian Federation 

Olga Nikolaevna Valentik 

Scientific Researcher, Centre of Federal Relations and Regional Development, Institute of Economics of the Russian Academy of Sciences 

valentik-o@ya.ru 

Prosp. Nakhimovskiy, 32, 117218 Moscow, Russian Federation 

Abstract. The article focuses on the inadmissibility of “impoverishment” of the content and the basic objectives of the developed Strategy of spatial development of the Russian Federation. The experience in this regard shows that the Strategy can repeat the serious lack of Federal law № 172 on strategic planning, which is related to the absence of a specific block of institutional strategic planning. This is traditionally understood as long-term foresight and targeting those institutional innovations, which in the future will ensure the achievement of the priorities of sectoral and spatial development of the national economy. The improvement of the main components of the Russian model of federalism is undoubtedly one of the important institutional dominants of the perspective socio-economic development. The apparent loss of attention to this component of the country’s institutional framework for sustainable development is clearly unjustifiable: the previously declared “Federal reform” obviously has not been completed. Meanwhile, the current state of economic and legal foundations of federal relations does not allow to use fully the advantages of federal statehood to achieve the “breakthrough”, which is so necessary for Russia in view of the negative trends in economy and politics of the modern world. Spatial regulation is not only the definition of the main trends of productive forces’ localization, including most important infrastructure facilities, but also the search for the most effective forms of organization of the economic space of the country, aimed at the maximum utilization of resources and initiatives of the sub-federal level of management. 

Key words: federal relations, Federation, subjects of the Russian Federation, spatial strategy, management decentralization, budget federalism, “self-development” of regions.

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