Regional statistics published by the Russian Federal State Statistics Service (Rosstat) are reviewed in terms of quality, and radical disagreement between “month-on-month” and “year-on-year” monthly statistics is identified. In view of this, an original method is proposed for estimating...

The paper shows that the innovation activities of Russian companies is determined, rather, short motifs. A number of factors are under the direct influence of the regional authorities. Correlation and regression analysis showed that the current policy of inter-budgetary relations leads to the...