The paper presents the results of the researches made by the Institute of Economics and Industrial Engineering, SB RAS within the program on spatial development launched by the Presidium of the SB RAS. We also put forward a concept of strategizing the Russian spatial development which includes...

The paper considers the issues of how the crisis can be diagnosed in Russian regions and how the national anti-crises program can be regionalized including the question of efficiency of such regional anti-crises programs. We analyses the potential anti-crisis scenarios and how the current crisis...

The paper examines federal relations and regional policy in the context of the ongoing strengthening of the power vertical. It deals with such crucial aspects of federal relations and regional policy as harmonization of regional with federal laws and division of competence between the Federation...

The paper considers the design and implementation of a Russian-Canadian program of exchange of experiences in northern policy. The program has been implemented in the Siberian Federal District since 2002. The major partners are the staff of the personal presidential envoy in the Siberian Federal...

The paper considers the recent changes concerning the governmental regulation in the regional development and regional policy in Russia. The author notes that many positive changes concerning the programming documents on regional development (such as the Development Strategies for macroregions...

The paper analyses the methodological issues of building regional monitoring systems (to monitor regional situations and problems) as well as the best practices of such informational and monitoring systems. The paper also considers the approaches appropriate to formimg a socio-economic block of...

The process of unification and formalization of relations among different levels of state government in the sphere of use of mineral resources that is underway leads actually to elimination from joint competence (ownership, use and disposal) of such a subject as the state fund of mineral...

The paper considers problems encountered in the formation of institutional systems in the sphere of mineral resources. In the Russian situation when mineral resources are in state ownership while the major assets located on the surface are mostly the assets of joint-stock companies it is...

The paper states that the question of how an oil and gas cluster will develop in future basically depends on the present institutional factors related to the specific concentration of oil-and-gas sector. The large vertically integrated companies mould the internal markets of the knowledge-based...

The paper analyzes the theoretical issues of an institutional rent by presenting a case study for the Russian oil-and-gas sector and how this sector influences the economy under different conditions of the world market. The calculations are made by applying the dynamic optimization models for...