Abstract
The main subject of consideration in this article is the problem of regional policy implementation in modern Russia, which is studied on the example of the Russian Far East. The Russian experience of regional politics clearly traces the dichotomy of declarative and real regional politics. The dualism of declarative goals reflected in the public documents of regional policy and real goals naturally leads to the discrepancy between the planned and real results of regional policy. The causes and results of this phenomenon are analyzed in this article. The authors proceed from the fact that there may exist a course hidden from the public, which is not formalized in public documents and does not directly correlate with the acute problems of peripheral region development in any country actively pursuing regional policy. This approach can be applied to any large country where there is a noticeable difference between the goals and results of regional policy.
Highlights
Observing the socio-economic development of the East of Russia and the relations between the center and the regions for many years, we thought why the scientific literature - primarily on spatial economy and socio-economic geography - constantly criticizes Moscow regional policy for its low efficiency
We test how the dichotomy of declarative and real regional politics works in modern Russia
This strategy has led to the creation of boring and predictable contests and a sharp decrease in turnout, which undermines the real legitimacy of the power party for Russian society and jeopardizes the stability of the Putin regime in the long term
Summary
Observing the socio-economic development of the East of Russia and the relations between the center and the regions for many years, we thought why the scientific literature - primarily on spatial economy and socio-economic geography - constantly criticizes Moscow regional policy for its low efficiency. It seems to us that the socio-economic tasks, the tasks of internal stability and security, and the rent-oriented behavior of officials form a single conglomeration of factors that any targeted actions of the center in relation to the regions are included in the general system of a certain regional metapolitics. We test how the dichotomy of declarative and real regional politics works in modern Russia. We observe processes to the east of Lake Baikal, the processes described are fundamentally similar in all parts of Russia.
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