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Federalism, regional growth, and regional science in post-Soviet Russia: Modernization or degradation?

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The paper considers the evolution of federalism, the spatial development, and regional policy of post-Soviet Russia in the 1990s and the first decade of the 21st century. On the basis of comparison with world trends, the specifics of Russian transformations in these spheres are defined, shortcomings in problem areas are revealed, and directions of their improvement are shown. It is demonstrated that federalism and spatial development of contemporary Russia, and the country’s regional policy, have had a contradictory character and that federal resources have been concentrated in narrow sectors of Russia’s economic space. In terms of priority and the size of resources allocated for it, regional policy has substantially been inferior to macroeconomic and budgetary-financial state policy, and actually there has been no legislative base. Taking into account the world experience of regional policy and the possibilities of using it in Russia, the requirements for a contemporary regional policy of the Russian Federation are formulated. A brief analysis is given of the contemporary state of Russian regional science, its correspondence to world standards, and the capability of ensuring scientific support for modernizing the spatial structure of Russia’s economy and society.

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Original Russian Text © V.E. Seliverstov, 2013, published in Region: Ekonomika i Sotsiologiya, 2013, No. 4 (80), pp. 3–36.

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Seliverstov, V.E. Federalism, regional growth, and regional science in post-Soviet Russia: Modernization or degradation?. Reg. Res. Russ. 4, 240–252 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1134/S2079970514040194

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