Reality of Regions and Regional Research
Vladimir Leksin
Institute for Systems Analysis, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow
Keywords: stability, balance, settlement system, labor reserves, efficient self-reliance, local markets, government authorities
Abstract
The paper analyzes the main problems destabilizing consistent functioning of the Russian state. Economic stagnation and abnormally high dependence on the global economy, reducing level of habitation in geopolitically important areas of the country, historic settlement system crisis, distortion of the structure and decline in workforce, as well as low chances to implement initiatives of regional and local authorities - all the arguments are examined in the framework of internal misbalance of natural resource, economic, infrastructural, socio-demo-graphic, and administrative potentials of local territories. Moreover, we present how subjects of conceptual studies on the described phenomena and their number do not correspond with their public prominence because of their results not requested by the government authorities.
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