Regions of Russia Economic Alignment: Trends and Tasks for the Policy of Regional Development

Abstract

The article provides an analysis of the various programs and concepts, anyway focused at the economic alignment of the regions of Russia. The paper discusses the reasons for the stability of interregional economic disparities, its prospects in connection with the priority focus on the innovative modernization of Russian economy. The authors provide suggestions concerning the tasks of positive regions’ economic alignment in Russia within the emerging system of strategic planning and its documents, concentrating basic orienteer of spatial development of the Russian economy and the federal regional policy.