Home – Home – Jornals – Region: Economics and Sociology 2025 number 1

The modern concept of regional policy emerged during the early post-Soviet period, a time characterized by radical reforms and acute crises. The outcome of numerous reformative and anti-crisis “trial-and-error" approaches was a fragmented conglomerate of goals, objectives, institutions, and regulatory measures that addressed individual aspects of regional development in an uncoordinated and inconsistent manner. This lack of synergy in regulating spatial development resulted in an unsystematic framework dispersed across various legal acts and institutions. Such fragmentation complicates the effective organization and functioning of regional policy, fosters departmental disunity and inconsistency, and results in contradictory actions. As a consequence, regional policy is perceived as cumbersome and costly; it is often criticized for ineffectiveness. Years of partial innovations have further complicated this framework without delivering substantial overall improvements. To radically enhance the efficiency and impact of regional policy, a systemic streamlining of it as an integral phenomenon is required, transforming it into a cohesive and consistently evolving framework. This need is reinforced by the formal conclusion of the current Fundamentals of State Regional Policy in 2025. This article substantiates the rationale, prerequisites, and conceptual provisions for this proposed systematization and outlines its critical directions.