CONDITION AND TRENDS OF LEGISLATIVE SUPPORT AIMED AT REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT REGULATION IN RUSSIA

Abstract

The article deals with the analysis of regional policy as a topic of public-legal activity of state power bodies in the Russian Federation. It discusses legal basis for the development and pursuing regional policy, substantiates the necessity to adopt the federal law ‘About State Regional Policy of the Russian Federation’. The authors propose to fix in the law the key notions connected with regional policy and regional development, such as: ‘regional policy’, ‘regional development’, ‘tools of regional policy’, ‘region’, ‘macro-region’, ‘agglomeration’, ‘district’, ‘district-division’, ‘cluster’, ‘zone’, ‘zoning’. The authors ground the aims, priorities and strategically important directions of regional policy and regional development, as well as mechanisms of realizing this policy in Russia at the present stage.

Keywords

• regional policy
• district-division
• cluster
• zoning