STATE REGULATION OF PRICES IN THE STRATEGY OF SOCIO-ECONOMIC SECURITY OF RUSSIA

Abstract

The article discusses the role of state prices’ regulation as one of the important directions of the strategy of strengthening the socio-economic security ofRussia, understood as the unity and interdependence of the economic and social components of national security. The paper shows that the main challenges and threats to social and economic security are the following: in the economy – very low rates of economic growth, preservation of deformed fuel and raw materials’ structure of industry and exports, reduction of investment activity of state and business; in the social sphere that is a high level of poverty, unemployment, “housing hunger”, the unavailability of high-quality health and education services for most of the population and the uneven incomes of the Russian population. The article reveals the important role in aggravation of these threats of the insufficiently effective state prices’ regulation in 1992—2016, which led to the advancing growth of the prices and tariffs for gas, electric power, housing and communal services. It is proposed to stabilize regulated prices for energy resources and housing services as well as to include in the arsenal of strategic planning the establishment of indicative prices’ parities, which will contribute to the gradual elimination of the most acute threats to the socio-economic security ofRussia.