Current situation and priority directions of mining resources in regions of Russia

Socio-economic development, geopolitical position and role of Russia in world community at present and in long-term outlook are mostly determined by its mineral-raw resources potential and state strategy for its developing on federal and regional levels. Potential value of reserves of resources allows to consider mineral-raw complex as the resource base of the state, creating basic conditions for performing structural reforms and modernization of the economy, providing rapid growth of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and increasing common weal. At the same time export mineral trend without means of influence on world and regional markets increases dangerous dependence of regions which are rich in different resources and country on the whole from external current situation, decreases the possibility of integrated development of own high-tech processing productions.