Balance of Strategic Planning in Russia: on the Systemic Approach to Documents, Programs and Projects

Abstract

Today, some elements and blocks of the strategic planning system, which is being formed, have been developed and are functioning. However, these elements still cannot respond to the system and balance requirements which are written into the Federal Law no. 172 «On Strategic Planning in the Russian Federation» (2014). The system of strategic planning in general (as an important element of the system of government regulation) which is being created has system lacunas and in particular they are: inconformity of the main structural blocks of basic federal documents, inconformity in the approaches to strategic planning and project management, disregard of national security issues in documents of strategic planning and some others which allow to provide fully both the balanced character of goals and targets of government development and resources for achieving them. The article substantiates that project activity has not been constructed into the process of strategic planning so far and project activity documents do not take into account systemic strategic documents. Long term goal setting in project activity in part of developing the country and providing its national security has not been developed so far. The authors emphasize the necessity of constructing a new hierarchy of strategic documents determining goal setting and tools for achieving indices of the development of the Russian Federation in sectoral and regional aspects and a transparent budgeting process directed to implementing the general goal of social and economic development of the country and providing its security. The researchers come to the conclusion that providing a balanced character and coordination of strategic planning documents in Russia is one of priority tasks. The authors emphasize that in the process of modernizing the system of strategic planning it is necessary to pay special attention not specifically to the succession of various types of documents but also to providing correlation (consistency) of the main structural blocks, forecasted and target indicators.