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 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 presents the methodological bases, techniques and tools applied to develop and assess the efficiency of strategies or indicative plans for Russian regions. The notion “a concept-model” includes the theoretical concepts and methodical approaches to the process of forecasting which...

The paper considers methodical approaches to investment policies in regions and analyses the trends in investments spatial structure caused by changed motivations. Described are methods by which the state can designate needy regions to support them with investments and thus abate disparities in...

The paper considers two ways in which the state can influence the regional deve lopment, which are regionalization of federal social and economic policy and the instruments of state regional policy. The challenges of and hindrances to this regulation are arranged as a system, and a general...