Benefits of federation are in more flexible use of the social and economic potential of its subjects at wide inter-regional competition. The federal system allows to use effects of either greater economic space or more complete considering of local conditions and interests. Specificity of modern...

Structural changes in Russia's economic space are caused mainly by processes in the global economy. The world crisis has changed the Russian spatial mode of development since financial resources were dramatically reduced. Trends of spatial development during the period of economic growth and at...

It is argued that the contribution of Russia to modernization of CIS countries is insignificant and is shown mainly in development of traditional productions with attraction of the technologies borrowed from the third countries. On the basis of the comparative analysis of the main indicators of...