Арктика и Север (Sep 2020)

Strategy for the Development of the Russian Arctic. Results and Prospects

  • Aleksandr V. KRUTIKOV,
  • Olga O. SMIRNOVA,
  • Lina K. BOCHAROVA

DOI
https://doi.org/10.37482/issn2221-2698.2020.40.254
Journal volume & issue
no. 40
pp. 213 – 226

Abstract

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On March 5, 2020, the President of the Russian Federation approved a new edition of the Basics of State Policy in the Arctic for the period until 2035. The document defined the goals and objectives of the development of the Arctic zone of the Russian Federation for the next 15 years. The main tool for imple-menting state policy in this high-latitude region should be a new strategy for the development of the Rus-sian Arctic zone. Summarizing and analyzing the results of the current Strategy for the socio-economic development of the Arctic zone of the Russian Federation and ensuring national security for the period up to 2020 (Strategy) will allow us to concentrate the efforts of the state on the most significant problems of the macroregion. The article is devoted to reviewing the results of the implementation of the Strategy, the adoption of which, in 2013, among other things, stimulated the processes of separating the macroregion into an independent object of state administration. The authors analyze the goals, objectives, and results achieved at each stage of the Strategy. Their impact on the socio-economic development of the region as a whole is evaluated.

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