Analysis of Approaches to Formation of the Image Policy of a Region

The article is devoted to analysis of modern approaches to the process of formation of image policy. It specifies main advantages and shortcomings of developments on formation of the image policy. The specified advantages would become a basis for formation and realisation of the image policy of a region. The article considers the existing regulatory acts, which regulate formation and realisation of the image policy in a certain region. It formulates main requirements to the process of formation of the image policy of a region. It shows specific features of formation of the image policy of a region. It identifies that formation of the concept of the image policy should be accompanied with the following conditions: image of a region should correspond with the strategy of development of a region in general; the image should be interconnected and exist at three levels: international (external image policy), state (institutional) and regional (for the population of a region).