Selective Regional Policy For The Development Of Geostrategic Regions Of Russia

Abstract

The research is based on the idea that selective regional policy is an independent thread of regional policy of the state. One of the main features of the present stage in implementation of selective regional policy of the Russian Federation is that the objects of its selective impact are the country’s geostrategic territories. Different tools of state stimulation of regional development are used in respect to these territories. It is established that the current practice of territorial development management in the Russian Federation is ahead of the development of state regional policy theory itself. Thus, geoselective regional policy, that is a new thread of selective regional policy, has been formed. The example of regions of the Far Eastern Federal District as geostrategic territories shows the mechanism for implementing geoselective regional policy in the Russian Federation. In the framework of implementation of state regional policy in the Russian Federation, geostrategic territories are the objects of selective stimulating influence. Evaluation of the mechanism for implementation of state regional policy for the development of Far East regions as geostrategic areas of the Russian Federation showed that FEFD uses a wide range of methods and tools to stimulate regional development such as state program, creation of special legal regimes in the form of PSEDA and the Free port of Vladivostok, state funding of social infrastructure, tax incentives. This confirms the conclusion that geoselective policy, a new model of selective regional policy, is being implemented in modern Russia.